ESPN commentator Stephen A. Smith interviewed President Donald Trump at the White House on Thursday, after which he immediately took himself out of the running for the open White House press secretary position.
Smith, often floated as an extreme long-shot presidential candidate, briefly spoke to reporters after the interview, which he said will air on his YouTube channel.
Asked about the current vacancy atop the White House press team, he responded with a resounding “no way in hell.”
Trump has been without a White House press secretary since firing Katie Zacharia five days into her tenure last month. The president has suggested he plans to go without a lead spokesperson for the foreseeable future, but caused a bit of a stir over the weekend by announcing that he had offered the job to UFC president Dana White, a close ally of the president.
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Furthermore, Trump held an impromptu press conference on Monday, where he wheeled out White but eventually conceded that the joke announcement was just “a little fun” made while the White House was “having a very bad press day.”
“I don’t know why I thought of his name. He’s been my friend for a long time,” the president added. “I said, ‘You know I think I’m going to get Dana White to be my new press secretary.’ I sent it to a group of the press, and that was it. I was, sort of, kidding, and then they wrote the story as though I wasn’t kidding, and you were inundated, and I was inundated, and he was here anyway. We thought to have a little fun, and we brought Dana here.”
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[ H/T Washington Examiner ]
