Chris Rock mocks sick Trump on SNL- 'My heart goes out to COVID' - News Today
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For any copyright, please send me a message. Comedian Chris Rock mocked Donald Trump during his opening monologue on Saturday Night Live saying, 'My heart goes out to COVID' following the president’s diagnosis.The show’s Season 46 premiere hit the ground running with jabs at the president, who is being treated for COVID-19 at the Walter Reed Military Medical Center in Maryland.'President Trump’s in the hospital from COVID and you know, I just want to say my heart goes out to COVID,' Rock, 55, joked as the small live crowd laughed.Rock explained how the show took extra precautions to prevent the spread of coronavirus, which has infected more than 7million people in the US and killed more than 209,000. 'There are so many protocols. Everybody in the audience has been checked and all week I’ve had things going up my nose every day I come in here,' Rock said.'I haven’t had so much stuff up my nose since I shared a dressing room with Chris Farley!' he added, referring to the late comedian and SNL alumn.Rock expressed dismay over the country's politics, calling for the end of the presidency altogether. He quipped Joe Biden 'should be the last president ever' and 'we need a whole new system'.'I mean, what job do you have for four years no matter what? Just show me one job. Like, if you hired a cook and he was making people vomit every day. Do you sit there and go, "Well, he’s got a four-year deal. We just gotta vomit for four more years.''He joked that being the president of the US has more relaxed qualifications than a game show does. 'I mean, to be the president of the United States, all you have to be is 35 and born in the United States,' Rock said. Share this article Share 'There should be some rules to being the president. You realize there’s more rules to a game show than running for president? Like, Donald Trump left a game show to run for president because it was easier,' he joked. 'You can’t just throw your son on Jeopardy, or your son-in-law. Steve Harvey can’t put his family on Family Feud,' pointing to how Trump filled the White House with his family members such as Ivanka Trump and husband Jared Kushner as advisors. Rock threw jabs across the aisle criticizing Democrats saying, 'Do the Democrats even want to win?''The Democrats just keep putting up 75-year-old people to run against Trump,' he joked.He ended his monologue urging viewers to vote in the election, just one month away.'Hey, we’ve got to take this serious. We’ve got to get out there, we’ve got to vote,' he said. 'But they don’t want us to vote. The government does not want you to vote. Why do I know they don’t want you to vote? Because Election Day is a Tuesday in November. If this show was ‘Tuesday Night Live,’ it would have got cancele
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