{"id":1415,"date":"2026-06-14T16:12:40","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T16:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2026-06-14T16:12:40","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T16:12:40","slug":"trumps-favorite-sports-commentator-challenges-live-iq-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=1415","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Favorite Sports Commentator Challenges Live IQ Battle"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p>Stephen A. Smith has thrown down the gauntlet after the famously fickle president accused him of being a \u201clow IQ individual.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=1413\">Trump\u2019s MAGA Enemy Exposes His Age Anxiety at 80<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Smith, 58, spoke on <i>State of the Union<\/i> Sunday, and was asked by host Kasie Hunt whether 80-year-old Donald Trump seemed \u201csharp enough\u201d to fulfill his role.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The ESPN pundit gently began: \u201cWell, I don\u2018t know anybody that would associate the word \u2018sharp\u2019 with him, because he doesn\u2018t seem that sharp with some of the decisions that he makes sometimes to be quite honest with you.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Smith said he didn\u2019t want to \u201cdenigrate\u201d or \u201cinsult\u201d the president, and wouldn\u2019t baselessly \u201cquestion his intellect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But he suggested that\u2014seeing as Trump is happy to besmirch his own mental faculties\u2014they could do the most sporting thing: go head-to-head on live TV for a brain test.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen he wants to sit up there and question my IQ and talk to me about people that would smoke me in a debate, well, why don\u2018t you do it yourself? Why defer to anybody else?\u201d Smith challenged.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause I\u2018d be more than happy to sit across from the president and debate some of the decisions that he\u2018s made.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=1411\">Trump\u2019s Birthday Unleashes a Flood of Awkward MAGA Adoration<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The political commentator openly clarified: \u201cI\u2018m not interested in running or anything like that. I like my job. I like my money, and I\u2018m not giving it up to campaign for higher office\u2014where most people in politics are trying to get where I\u2018m at; monetarily, that is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Doubling down on his contest, Smith concluded: \u201cI would certainly say that if you really, really want to be serious about questioning somebody\u2018s IQ, put me at the same table as you and we can have a discussion in front of the masses about some of the decisions that you\u2018ve made on behalf\u2014supposedly\u2014of the American people. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we\u2018ll see where my IQ lands then.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Trump\u2019s Truth Social rant about Smith on Wednesday, he called the star \u201cdumb as rocks,\u201d a \u201cloudmouth,\u201d and \u201ctotally unqualified to ever think of running for high political office\u201d\u2014despite having floated Smith as a potential presidential contender just a few months ago. <\/p>\n<p>The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment. <\/p>\n<p>The presidential tantrum was not sparked by war or economic woes, but by basketball. On June 8, Smith said Trump\u2019s decision to attend the Knicks NBA game that evening was an \u201cinconvenience\u201d for lifelong fans who would be \u201cdisplaced\u201d from watching and celebrating the game.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Trump\u2019s arrival for the Knicks was soundly booed, and Smith has not changed his opinion. In his CNN appearance, he appealed to the president as a fellow born and raised New Yorker\u2014saying that\u2019s why Trump should have known that it was \u201cselfish\u201d and \u201cnarcissistic\u201d to go.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=1409\">White House Scrambles to Explain Trump\u2019s Public Glitches as He Turns 80<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen A. Smith has thrown down the gauntlet after the famously fickle president accused him of being a \u201clow IQ individual.\u201d Read more Trump\u2019s MAGA Enemy Exposes His Age Anxiety at 80 Smith, 58, spoke on State of the Union Sunday, and was asked by host Kasie Hunt whether 80-year-old Donald Trump seemed \u201csharp enough\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1414,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Trump\u2019s Favorite Sports Commentator Challenges Live IQ Battle - Nationwide Inter State Movers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nationwideinterstatemovers.com\/?p=1415\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Trump\u2019s Favorite Sports Commentator Challenges Live IQ Battle - Nationwide Inter State Movers\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Stephen A. 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