ESPN commentator Stephen A. Smith was enraged by a clip of President Joe Biden sitting down to a fried chicken dinner with a black family.
Biden was seen in a video clip interviewing two teenage boys and their father over a meal. While the president and the father appeared to eat hamburgers, the boys had a plate of fried chicken in front of them. The president got to know the family personally and made more campaign promises about student loan forgiveness. Smith played the clip on the Stephen A. Smith Show and let out an angry roar in response.
“Why do I have a problem with this? First of all, we all know about racial tropes, do we not?” Smith said. “Number two, President Biden, and respectfully I got to ask you this question, what the hell are you doing eating fried chicken? You’re 81. What 81 you know is munching on fried chicken? You ain’t been in the greatest health in a lot of people’s eyes, you know, so eating some fried chicken ain’t the greatest look.”
Smith also took issue with how conservative outlets like Fox News covered the video. According to the commentator, the video, posted to Instagram on the president’s account, was only fuel for the fodder against him.
“I recognize what he’s done for HBCUs, I recognize what he’s done for infrastructure, I recognize what he’s done for forgiveness of student loans — I recognize these things. I’m not trying to expel or expunge the good that he has done, but this imagery — I want to know who the hell came up with that idea,” Smith said. “Because you know Trump and the GOP are going to use that to their advantage, right? And they’ll be right to do so.”
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At the end of his rant, Smith suggested he himself should have run for president because the other candidates demonstrate “insensitivity” and “lack of understanding.” Smith predicted he could have won “tens of millions of votes” for his own campaign.
Biden is facing three Democratic challengers in Rep. Dean Phillips (D-MN), YouTube news anchor Cenk Uygur, and author Marianne Williamson. They remain in the race even though Biden most recently won Nevada with 89.4%.
