Tony Rock Says Trump's Second Term Is Not a 'Gold Mine' for Comedians

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Tony Rock says he's not cheering on a second Donald Trump term as president ... admitting there will be more joke opportunities, but he's not feeling like comedians have struck gold.

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00:00Let's compartmentalize Trump for a second as like what he's going to do in office, right?

00:08Can I tell you something real quick?

00:10Can I say something real quick?

00:11Yes.

00:12I just got off the plane.

00:13I've been off the plane for maybe five minutes.

00:14Right.

00:15I haven't seen in a long time the guy with the dog making him sniff people's bags just

00:19now.

00:20Yeah.

00:21I haven't seen that in a while.

00:22Today I get off the plane and I could be wrong, but he had, so what he is, the officer has

00:27the dog and he has this little thing, he'll throw it over there so the dog can go get

00:31it and then smell the person.

00:34I only seen him throw it three times and everybody he threw it towards was black people.

00:38Oh my God.

00:39As soon as I saw it, I said, oh, we back on that.

00:42So we back, we automatically back on that bullshit.

00:44Trump's back.

00:45Trump's back.

00:46Here we go.

00:47In the Trump era, is this like a comedic goldmine?

00:50Is it like, yo.

00:51Goldmine.

00:52It's a goldmine.

00:53Horrible choice of words because goldmine implies opulence and, and good fortune.

00:58Okay.

00:59To answer your question though, yes, there is way more to report because we are reporters

01:05and there will be more news to report.

01:06There will be more news to report because he's going to give the world more news.

01:10He's going to give the world more headlines.

01:12Yeah.

01:13And it's our job to decipher and try to find some funny, try to find some humor and all

01:19the fucked up stuff he's going to do.

01:20Some of these things that were signed are like atomic bombs to some people, right?

01:25Like two different communities are being like hit.

01:28We ought to, we, day one, America's out of the world health organization, day one, why

01:37do I, why am I laughing?

01:38It's not even funny.

01:39Right, right, right.

01:40I'm laughing.

01:41Day one, the department of inclusion and what's the DEI, DEI, DEI, all those people today,

01:50they went home.

01:51Gone.

01:52They're on, they're on.

01:53Gone.

01:54Put them on, put them on, on leave in the beginning of a firing them.

01:58Yeah.

01:59Whole department of inclusivity and inclusion.

02:01Diversity.

02:02Who the fuck do you think that, that implies?

02:04Yeah.

02:05Who do you think that, that directly affects?

02:07Yeah.

02:08Yeah.

02:09So he's saying it without saying, you know what I'm saying?

02:12Yeah.

02:13And all of those, uh, fake white people, all of the, all of the, all of the Spanish people

02:16that identify as white, this help, this affects you.

02:20All of the, I don't identify.

02:21No, I'm just saying all of the Cubans that hate other Cubans, all of the Mexicans that

02:26hate other Mexicans, all of the black people that don't think they're really black.

02:30This affects you.

02:31This affects you directly.

02:32So I hope you get what you, uh, careful what you ask for.

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