Dave Chappelle closed his Saturday Night Live monologue by asking President-elect Donald Trump to do something unthinkable: Try to be more like former president Jimmy Carter.
Towards the end of an unusually long monologue that also touched on the fallout from the L.A. fires, the Diddy allegations, and Luigi Mangione, the comic spoke with raw emotion about his experience witnessing the late Jimmy Carter’s visit to Palestine in 2008, where Carter entered Palestinian territory despite the Israeli government urging him not to for his own safety.
“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. “I said, ‘I don’t know if that’s a good president, but that right there, I am sure, is a great man.‘”
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