Dave Chappelle Addresses Donald Trump’s Victory on SNL Monologue: ‘I’m Going to Give Him a Chance’
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Dave Chappelle is tonight’s host on Saturday Night Live, and there was no way he could give tonight’s opening monologue without addressing Donald Trump‘s upset victory in the 2016 election. Musing about how America elected an “internet troll” to be its next leader, Chappelle took a look at how many people have taken to the streets to protest the incendiary real estate mogul. He did show though how it is still possible to pull levity from the situation, no matter how dire it might be. “The whites are furious. They’ve never seen anything like it. I haven’t seen white people this mad since the O.J. [Simpson] verdict,” Chappelle said “I watched a white riot in Portland, Oregon, on television the other night. News said they did a million dollars worth of damage. Every Black person watching was like, ‘amateurs.'” Chappelle did get more serious though, recognizing that with everything from the Pulse nightclub shooting to the death of Harambe, America has already been through quite a lot over the course of this year. Now that Trump will be the next president and he’s already met with President Obama, Chappelle was curious as to how Trump will do when he already looked “shook” at the meeting. While Chappelle remarked that America will miss Obama when he leaves the White House, he went on a comedic freestyle over what it was like for the country to have an African-American president for the first time in its existence. Reminiscing about a party he attended which BET hosted at the White House, Chappelle remarked that it made him feel “hopeful” to see how far black people in the country have come after being historically disenfranchised. “It made me feel proud to be an American and it made me very happy about the prospects of our country,” said Chappelle. “So, in that spirit, I’m wishing Donald Trump luck. And I’m going to give him a chance. And we, the historically disenfranchised, demand that he give us one too.”Dave Chappelle made his Saturday Night Live hosting debut on Nov. 12 for its first episode since the election results came in on Tuesday. Chappelle addressed Donald Trump's election victory, saying, "I didn't know that Donald Trump was gonna win the election, but I did suspect it." In a standup set as his monologue, Chappelle continued, "Hillary was ahead in the polls, and yet I know the whites. You guys aren't as full of surprises as you used to be." "Americas done it, we've actually elected an internet troll as our president," he joked. "I'm staying out of it," he continued, "I'm just going to take a knee like Kaepernick and let the whites figure this out amongst themselves. For us, we've been here before." During his set, Chappelle also commented on the Harambe shooting, the massacre at the Pulse nightclub and the Black Lives Matter movement. "I admit that's not the best slogan, but McDonald's already took "you deserve a break today." Chappelle joked that he was staying at a Trump hotel, addressing Trump's comments on the Access Hollywood tape, saying that when the "housekeeper comes in the morning, I say hey good morning, grab a big handful of pussy, you know. Boss said it was OK." Imagining what the meeting between Trump and President Obama might have been like, he said that Trump might now be worried about how hard the job of President would be. "Not really, at least you get to be white while you're doing it," Chappelle joked as Obama. "I think we'll all miss him when he's gone," he said of President Obama. "I think it's important that I say this because they're marching up the street right now as we speak," Chappelle concluded, telling the story of going to the White House recently for a BET event "with all black people and Bradley Cooper for some reason." "It made me very happy about the prospects of our country. So in that spirit, I'm wishing Donald Trump luck. Dave Chappelle dropped by Saturday Night Live and provided the therapy the country needed after watching Donald Trump get elected on Tuesday. When it was announced last weekend that Dave Chappelle would be hosting the first post-election show for Saturday Night Live, we all knew it would be fire. What we didn’t know was that it would be taking place in an America that would be handing the keys over to Donald Trump. He came off the top rope right away, not wasting anytime in getting to Trump and the idea that white people — people who are going suffer the least under Trump — are the most pissed off at the election. “We’ve elected an internet troll as president,” Chappelle joked in his monologue. He was also quick to point to the other tragedies in the country, ones that we can’t forget about in our anger over Trump getting elected president. From nightclub shootings to violence in the inner-city, Chappelle hit all angles. Chappelle also Dave Chappelle is tonight’s host on Saturday Night Live, and there was no way he could give tonight’s opening monologue without addressing Donald Trump‘s upset victory in the 2016 election.
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