{"id":2533322,"date":"2026-01-12T07:41:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stephen-a-smith-caller-says-trump-voters-are-mental-smith-then-reminded-him-of-the-lefts-insane-trans-policy\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T07:43:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:43:06","slug":"stephen-a-smith-caller-says-trump-voters-are-mental-smith-then-reminded-him-of-the-lefts-insane-trans-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stephen-a-smith-caller-says-trump-voters-are-mental-smith-then-reminded-him-of-the-lefts-insane-trans-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen A Smith Caller Says Trump Voters Are Mental, Smith Then Reminded Him of the Left\u2019s Insane Trans Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstephen-a-smith-caller-says-trump-voters-are-mental-smith-then-reminded-him-of-the-lefts-insane-trans-policy%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2533322&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>On his SiriusXM program &#8220;Straight Shooter with Stephen A.,&#8221; Stephen A. Smith cut off a caller who said &#8220;there&#8217;s mental illness in some of these people&#8221; who support Donald Trump; Smith replied that not all Trump supporters are mentally ill and pushed back by listing what he described as extreme positions on the left. He criticized transgender-related policies, cancel culture and what he called the left&#8217;s embrace of &#8220;insanity,&#8221; arguing both sides have examples of extreme behavior. The piece also notes congressional votes on the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act, which would bar biological males from female competitions and passed the House but was blocked in the Senate.Additionally, the article references past statements attributed to Kamala Harris about <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >supporting taxpayer-funded gender-affirming surgeries<\/a> for incarcerated and detained migrants, which media outlets later highlighted.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>SiriusXM host Stephen A. Smith cut off a caller on &ldquo;Straight Shooter with Stephen A&rdquo; Wednesday after he said &ldquo;there&rsquo;s mental illness in some of these people&rdquo; who support President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Prominent left-wing individuals have claimed Trump supporters are <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/10\/06\/hillary-clinton-trump-cult-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cu<\/a>l<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2023\/10\/06\/hillary-clinton-trump-cult-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">t<\/a>&nbsp;members or mentally unwell. When the caller made the claim on Smith&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.siriusxm.com\/player\/show\/entity\/587a0c84-fce0-694f-a413-b8af6b647f32?_branch_match_id=1456667536115586303&amp;utm_source=Web&amp;utm_campaign=NA-NA-DL-WEB-show-POTUSPolitics-587a0c84fce0694fa413b8af6b647f32-Talk-NA-SCSXMDL-SH-GEN-IM-KEY-AL00-TK-PLC-PERM-StephenASmith-WEB-BLOG-BlogTagPageStraightShooterwithStephenA-GeneralBAU-SOCO23-MED-20250917-NewsletterBlog-generalBAU-Branch-dtm&amp;utm_medium=SXM_NA_NewsletterBlog&amp;_branch_referrer=H4sIAAAAAAAAAwXBQQqAIBAF0BOl%2ByCCukBg%2BzCYZiR15DtQq87ee2LW%2Buh9f4uLrbmc6u2XrLxH3iLTEAwxsVgQVSPMH%2BgiIFU%2BTujTCdMq0EI%2FL%2BkdJ0oAAAA%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">show<\/a> that &ldquo;some&rdquo; of them were mentally ill, the host immediately <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Uu3k0y21T9o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">responded<\/a>, &ldquo;Not all of them,&rdquo; and cut him off to list examples of where he believed the left had veered into insanity.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Time out&hellip; You <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despite-insistence-by-democrat-politicians-and-medical-elites-empirical-evidence-does-not-conclusively-show-that-masks-reduce-the-spread-of-covid\/\" title=\"Despite Insistence by Democrat Politicians and Medical Elites, Empirical Evidence DOES NOT Conclusively Show that Masks Reduce the Spread of COVID\">don&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t get to do that,&rdquo; Smith said. &ldquo;Don&rsquo;t talk to me about mental illness on the side of the right, but you had people talking about transgender without parental consent, and men transitioning to women and playing in women&rsquo;s sports and thinking that that was okay, and that people could be incarcerated and they could have sex changes and stuff like that.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Only two House Democrats&nbsp;voted in favor of the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/119\/bills\/hr28\/BILLS-119hr28ih.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/119\/bills\/hr28\/BILLS-119hr28ih.pdf\">Act<\/a> in January 2025 &mdash; which would have prevented biological males from competing in female sports &mdash; as it <a href=\"https:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/evs\/2025\/roll012.xml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/clerk.house.gov\/evs\/2025\/roll012.xml\">passed<\/a> 218-206. Senate Democrats&nbsp;blocked the act in March 2025, with 45 voting to defeat a cloture vote on the bill.<\/p>\n<p>Former Vice President Kamala Harris detailed how she worked &ldquo;behind the scenes&rdquo; to provide prisoners access to sex change operations at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ex-top-immigration-adviser-biden-agenda-would-fundamentally-erase-very-essence-of-americas-nationhood\/\" title=\"Ex-Top Immigration Adviser: Biden Agenda \u2018Would Fundamentally Erase Very Essence Of America\u2019s Nationhood\u2019\">taxpayer expense<\/a> during a 2019 news conference. She also pushed for providing the operations to self-proclaimed transgender illegal immigrants at taxpayer expense in a 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/assets.aclu.org\/live\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Harris-ACLU-Candidate-Questionnaire.pdf\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/assets.aclu.org\/live\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Harris-ACLU-Candidate-Questionnaire.pdf\">questionnaire<\/a> from the American Civil Liberties Union during her 2020 presidential campaign that CNN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/09\/09\/politics\/kfile-harris-pledged-support-in-2019-to-cut-ice-funding-and-provide-transgender-surgery-to-detained-migrants\/index.html\" data-mrf-link=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/09\/09\/politics\/kfile-harris-pledged-support-in-2019-to-cut-ice-funding-and-provide-transgender-surgery-to-detained-migrants\/index.html\">resurfaced<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} else { \t\t\t\tdocument.addEventListener(\"DOMContentLoaded\", function() { \t\t\t\t\tfunction loadScript(src) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst script=document.createElement(\"script\"); \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.src=src; \t\t\t\t\t\tscript.async=true; \t\t\t\t\t\tdocument.body.appendChild(script); \t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\tfunction findPreviousParagraph(selector, x) { \t\t\t\t\t\tconst targetElement=document.querySelector(selector); \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!targetElement) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Target element not found.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Get all <\/p>\n<p> elements in order as they appear in the document \t\t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphs=Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\"p\"));  \t\t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the index of the last <\/p>\n<p> before the target element \t\t\t\t\t\tlet targetIndex=paragraphs.findIndex(p=> p.compareDocumentPosition(targetElement) & Node.DOCUMENT_POSITION_PRECEDING);  \t\t\t\t\t\tif (targetIndex===-1 || targetIndex <x) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.warn(\"Not enough paragraphs before the target element.\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\treturn null; \t\t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\treturn paragraphs[targetIndex - x]; \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Set up IntersectionObserver \t\t\t\t\tfunction observeElement(element) { \t\t\t\t\t\tif (!element) return;  \t\t\t\t\t\tconst observer=new IntersectionObserver( \t\t\t\t\t\t\t(entries)=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tentries.forEach(entry=> { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tif (entry.isIntersecting) { \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsole.log(\"Paragraph is now visible:\", entry.target.textContent.trim()); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tloadScript(\"https:\/\/embed.sendtonews.com\/player3\/embedcode.js?fk=s28Az7AY\"); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.disconnect(); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t} \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t\t\t\t\t}, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t{ threshold: 0.5 } \/\/ Adjust threshold as needed \t\t\t\t\t\t);  \t\t\t\t\t\tobserver.observe(element); \t\t\t\t\t}  \t\t\t\t\t\/\/ Find the 1st paragraph before #stnvideo and observe it \t\t\t\t\tlet paragraphToObserve=findPreviousParagraph(\"#stnvideo\", 2); \t\t\t\t\tobserveElement(paragraphToObserve); \t\t\t\t}); \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;You don&rsquo;t get to sit up there and just point to the right about that and not act like there wasn&rsquo;t craziness on the left, too&hellip; I&rsquo;m a fiscal conservative with my money. I&rsquo;m liberal with everything else,&rdquo; Smith added. &ldquo;And I&rsquo;m still appalled by how far left the left has leaned. It&rsquo;s disgraceful. No common sense. And, oh, by the way, when you talk about woke culture and cancel culture, don&rsquo;t come to me with the Republicans. It wasn&rsquo;t the Republicans that were trying to get people fired for pronouncing the wrong pronoun. That was the left.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<div class=\"disclaimer\">\n<p><em>All content created by the Daily Caller News Foundation, an independent and nonpartisan newswire service, is available without charge to any legitimate news publisher that can provide a large audience. All republished articles must include our logo, our reporter&rsquo;s byline and their DCNF affiliation. 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