Dave Chappelle on Trump: ‘We’ve Elected an Internet Troll as Our President’ – WATCH

Dave Chappelle returned to TV on Saturday night as host of SNL, and in lieu of a traditional opening monologue did a longer stand-up monologue on the election of Donald Trump.

Chappelle said that though he was pulling for Hillary, something didn’t sit right with him in the final days of the campaign. “I know the whites,” he joked, “You guys aren’t as full of surprises as you used to be.”

Said Chappelle of Trump, “We’ve elected an internet troll as our president.”

Chappelle added that reaction to Trump’s win is something he’s never seen before. “I watched a white riot in Portland, Oregon on television the other night,” he quipped.

Chappelle also talked about the epidemic of mass shootings in America. Referring to the Pulse massacre, Chappelle said that while authorities and media said at first that it was perpetrated by ISIS, “it turned out that wasn’t exactly what happened.” He added, “And if that is what happened, then ISIS is scarier then I thought because they have very deep cover operatives.”

Impersonating an undercover ISIS agent trying to infiltrate the LGBT community, Chappelle joked, “Look guys I’m going down deep for this one. I might have to get a Grindr account and jerk a few guys off to throw them off the trail.”

Chappelle also discussed the Black Lives Matter movement, President Obama’s legacy, and a historic visit he made recently to The White House for a reception hosted by BET.

At that event, whose guests were entirely black save for Bradley Cooper, Chappelle said he was reminded how few times black people had been invited to the White House throughout history:

I looked at that room and I saw all those black faces and Bradley, and I saw how happy everybody was, these people who had been historically disenfranchised. And it made me feel hopeful, and it made me feel proud to be an American, and it made me very happy about the prospects of our country. So in that spirit,  I’m wishing Donald Trump luck and we the historically disenfranchised demand that he give us one too.

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8 Obama-Inspired Equality Measures That Face The Trump & Pence Axe

As the harsh reality of a Trump administration sinks in, it’s clear that Trump and company will undo much of what Obama has done. We’re already getting strong signals that much of what we celebrated over the past eight years will likely be nothing but a memory by 2017.

If anyone out there still thinks Trump is “not that bad gay issues” please read this list and think again.

Here’s a list of the things that we can probably kiss goodbye soon after Trump takes office.

1. Employment protections

In the absence of federal legislation, President Obama issued an executive order prohibiting federal contractors from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation. Obama later extended the protections to transgender workers. While Trump hasn’t singled these protections out, he has promised to repeal all of Obama’s executive orders. Vice President Mike Pence, who will play an outsized role in the Trump Administration, would gladly add this to his list of measures to axe.

2. Transgender students

On the other hand, Pence has explicitly promised that the Trump administration will roll back guidance allowing transgender students to choose the bathroom that matches their gender identify. “Washington has no business intruding on the operation of our local schools,” Pence told religious right leader James Dobson in an interview last month.

3. Housing discrimination

The Department of Housing and Urban Development decided that government housing discrimination issues do include LGBTQ people, even though they are not called out in federal statute. Since that’s not codified in law, the next HUD Secretary will likely rescind that protection.

4. Health care rights

Trump’s promise that he will repeal Obamacare will have multiple consequences. For one thing, the Obama administration specifically said that the law prohibits discrimination in health care. For another, the law prevents health insurers from refusing to offer a plan or charging more to someone on the basis of a pre-existing condition. This has been a major benefit for people with HIV, who are now facing a return to the old insurance market, and getting essentially locked out of them unless they find a group or company plan.

5. Marriage benefits

Trump can’t stop marriage equality–at least not right away. But his appointees could erode a number of benefits that we enjoy as a result of it. For example, the administration could decide to overturn Obama’s decision to extend family leave benefits to same-sex couples. Or the Pentagon could stop allowing military personnel from bringing their same-sex spouses with them on overseas assignments.

6. A hostile Supreme Court

Not at first. By filling the spot left vacant by the death of Antonin Scalia, Trump will merely return the Court to its previous conservative tilt. But if Anthony Kennedy retires–and at age 80, he’s ready–we will lose our staunchest and only conservative supporter on the Court. You can guarantee that Kennedy’s replacement will be nowhere near as friendly to our issues. If you think that a hostile court can’t erode decided law, you haven’t been following the debate about abortion.

7. A resurgence of conversion therapy

The Obama administration called for a ban on conversion therapy for youth. On the other hand, Mike Pence has spoken kindly of it. Don’t be surprised if the federal government decides that conversion therapy is a perfectly legitimate treatment.

8. Religious freedom legislation

Otherwise known as a free pass to discriminate and much prized by Trump’s evangelical supporters. Trump has promised to sign the First Amendment Defense Act, which will give homophobes carte blanche to refuse services to us on vaguely worded religious grounds. In other words, we’ll have a replay of Indiana’s own religious freedom law under Pence. The big difference is that the financial pressure that business placed on Pence won’t apply here, because the law isn’t geographically focused. How can you boycott the entire U.S.?

How much of this will come to pass is anyone’s guess. But if you are placing your hope in Trump being relatively friendly to us, forget it. He’s probably going to delegate the work of governing to Mike Pence and his appointees.

That means the future of equality looks pretty bleak.

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N.Y. Gov. Cuomo Vows to Protect LGBT People

Cuomo spoke to his followers on Facebook, telling them New York will always be a refuge. 

www.advocate.com/election/2016/11/12/ny-gov-cuomo-vows-protect-lgbt-people