In what was hailed as one of the greatest monologues in the history of Saturday Night Live, Dave Chappelle made an appeal to President-elect Donald Trump as he is all set for the inauguration tomorrow. “Whether people voted for you or not, they’re all counting on you. Whether they like you or not, they all are counting on you. The whole world is counting on you. I mean this when I say this. Good luck, please do better next time. Please, all of us, do better next time. Don’t forget your humanity, & have empathy for displaced people, whether they’re in the Palisades or Palestine,” Chappelle said adding that he knows that Donald Trump watches Saturday Night Live.
Dave Chappelle also shared a moving story about the time when late President Jimmy Carter inspired him. “I was in the Middle East years ago, after I quit my show. I was trying to find out what I wanted to do with my life,” the comedian recounted. “While I was there, Jimmy Carter flew to Israel, so everybody in the region was talking about a former American president being in the Middle East.”
Chappelle added that while Carter was in Israel, he was releasing his controversially titled 2006 book “Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid” and decided he wanted to visit a Palestinian territory even though at the time, the Israeli government advised against it and told him it wouldn’t be able to adequately protect him.
“And man, Jimmy Carter went anyway. I will never forget the images of a former American president walking with little to no security while thousands of Palestinians were cheering him on,” Chappelle said. “And when I saw that picture, it brought tears to my eyes. I said, ‘I don’t know if that’s a good president, but that right there, I am sure, is a great man.’”
“The presidency is no place for petty people,” Dave Chappelle said as he made his appeal to Donald Trump.
