Donnell Rawlings on Why Trump Frustrates People | Joe Rogan

Last couple years, comedy has been interesting. There's a lot of people that are fans of Donald Trump, a lot of people that aren't fans of Donald Trump. And I think it's petty for you to be upset with anybody because they chose to vote for whoever they chose to vote for. I think it's stupid as shit. But I will say this past election was interesting in the sense that a lot of people were upset. Black people were upset the last election. Women were upset, gay people were upset. But white people were really upset. Like white people were the angriest. And white people did not protest. They voted. Black people was like, Black Lives Matter. White people was like, we'll see about that in the morning. And whenever you hear someone says, we'll see about that in the morning, it's going to be some change. It's going to be some change. But comedy, I don't think comedy should be a place where people exercise anger or be angry. How so? In what way? That like being mad, like when Donald Trump first got elected, you know, personally, like it was very interesting. And I've seen a lot of comics. They could just go up there and be like, fuck Donald Trump and just, ha ha. You know, you could find a way to say fuck Donald Trump or anybody, but it doesn't have to be fueled with any anger. Yeah. You know, it doesn't have to be fueled like fuck you be like this. Fuck them. OK, why? Why do you say that? Why do you say fuck them? And then let out a reason. But I just don't think that people should be angry about how they feel about. It's just I think it's fucked up when politics make people angry. It's contrary to what you're saying was great about Chappelle's show, that the comedy came without being angry. But it made great points. But even anybody on both sides could laugh at it. Yeah. Yeah. The thing about Trump that's it's interesting. It's like the job shouldn't exist. The job of what? President? Yes. It shouldn't exist. It's a ridiculous idea to have three hundred million people under the guidance of one. That's insane. And that one wins in a popularity contest. That's insane. Right. It's fucking insane. It doesn't make sense. It was it was a great idea back when there were pilgrims. It was a small colony and they just came over on a boat. Forget it. Forget about the rest of this shit. There's just too many humans. Right. So when you let a guy like that, like try to be president, no, you're not going to be happy. No one's going to be happy. But you're not going to be happy if anybody wins. It's it's it's untenable. Look at Obama. Obama aged like how many years in eight years? Yeah. He looked like he he aged 20. It's like I got into Ted Danson effect once Cheers got canceled. You was who the fuck is that? You know, the first time you saw Ted Danson, I'm not talking about years after Cheers like after a friend. You're like, God damn. He stopped dyeing his hair. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, man. Is there something about Trump before that that people enjoyed? There was a lot of rap lyrics, man. He was like the old like people would probably still be if he was a rapper is to write down. It'd be different. He's so popular. People rap about him. They like that lifestyle. But the thing was, I tell you this, my thoughts. The thing was, because you thought you knew a person, you thought you knew him. And even when he got elected, I think a lot of people thought they knew him. Right. They thought they knew him. They thought the image like you're going to be the billion dollar, billion dollar playboy guy forever. But you thought you knew him. But then when you got to know him, you started to think, well, maybe I didn't know him. When you got to see him as president. Yeah, you get him saying like, yeah, I don't think even as even as much as even how we got elected people were upset about it. But I think a lot of people, somebody was like, did you know what? Maybe all of that shit was just to get elected. Maybe that energy was to get elected. And if that was the case, that he mastered it. He mastered how to get connected with his base. He mastered how to get not everybody to fuck with you, but just the right amount of people. Yeah. He looked at numbers. It wasn't about the it was a popular contest, but it's also new like these people got hit and he figured that out. Well, there's some at some point, Joe, people were like, hi. Oh, it's over now. Let's see who you really are. And I think it's so many examples of when you felt like he could have showed people example example that he's for everybody. Right. Opposed to just just his base. Right. And I think that's what get people a lot of what make people frustrated. He gives impression that, you know, I only care about these people that elected me. You won. Right. But you have responsibility to everybody and it's just don't have that feeling. Even on my social media, I don't go hard. I keep it kind of neutral. But I said something and somebody said, well, the last time I checked, Donnell, the economy was doing well. And I said, you can't confuse the economy with humanity. And that's the thing. And that's what that's what people don't feel good about. You could tout all the numbers. You could talk all the numbers you want. Black unemployment, all the numbers, all the numbers. But how do people feel? You know, I'm saying they get represented. They don't feel don't they don't feel represented. They don't feel like I could rock either way, but Democrat Republican, I make enough money where a lot of the views of Republicans like, yo, that's right up my alley. You know what I'm saying? You got that right. I'm rich, you know, like that. I fucked up Republican bitches before. You know what I'm saying? I get it. You know what I'm saying? But at the same time, it's the it's the it may not sound right to a lot of people, but it's the human factor of it. You know what I'm saying? Like you want to feel good. You want to you. You want so many people don't know the economy is doing well because they don't feel good. Right. You know what I'm saying? You want to celebrate. You want to cheer. You want to feel good about it. And that's the whole thing. I think I believe when Obama ran like his campaign was changed, Donald Trump would make America great again. Either one of them could have ran off each other's campaign slogan. Do you know after Bush, Obama could have said make America great again and it would electrify the base the same as change. True. They said the same fucking thing. That would be the great thing for Obama. Right after Bush. I'm gonna tell you one thing that kind of I don't insulting or get people upset is like you keep pushing the narrative. Make America great again. Make America great again. You keep pushing it as if America was so fucked up before you took office. And that's not the case. Right. Like when when when Obama took it from Bush, he was making America great again. You talk about a shit show and the thing that people have. However you took it respected or not. It was never nothing laced with anger. It was never. It wasn't no. Yo, you see this mess. Bush left me. It was never like this motherfucker. It was never no mention. Do you see that new movie about Bush? Do you see it? I didn't see it either. What's it called, Jamie? Is it out? The one with vice. Yeah. Vice. Yeah. About Dick Cheney and George Bush. Whenever I think about the movie about getting shot in the face because that's the only scene I want to see. Well, the thing about Bush and Cheney is like that movie kind of makes it seem like Cheney was the guy pulling the strings and Bush was this like simple happy go lucky guy who they just roped into being president because he was the son of a president. That's not far fetched. It's not far fetched at all. It's not at all. Not even remotely. I think I actually agree with it. But I think about Bush now. I don't think about him in a negative way, but I think about Cheney in a negative way. Really? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think about Cheney about it. I think about Halliburton. I think about all the rebuilding of the places that we blew up like all the crazy shit from Dick Cheney come from no bid contracts that are worth billions of dollars to rebuild. You know, it's just she said that you're not the Bush because if I had, I know it may sound crazy. If I had to have a pick of who I would have wanted to be the Republican candidate, it was on the Republican side was on. I like Jeb Bush. I didn't really get to know him at all. There was something that. I don't know. I don't know too much. I just. I just thought that he had he was like kind of like a momma's boy. I think he probably out of all the kids. I probably think that he probably was the one that thought a little outside of what their normal. I think he was a successful businessman. Latino chicken. I'm not mistaken. I don't know. I just I don't know. But but Bush, I mean, Trump fucked him up. Yo, how do you fuck motherfuckers up with just nicknames like you wanted to lay down. Yeah. I felt like Jeb wanted to lay down. I really do. I felt like Trump put all the motherfuckers days like you were safe until you got your nickname. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Once you got lion. Yeah. Lion. No energy. You know that motherfuckers like he didn't name rap artists. Yeah. No, it was a smart thing. He did that. No one's ever done before. Nobody. There's a lot of things. And even like even when I'm even when Obama got elected, you know what it got Obama elected was fucking Facebook and five dollar contributions. Five dollar donations. He was if you when he was when when when Obama was running that he was the first person to use Facebook the way he did. Really? Oh man. They have so many every goddamn day. It was Obama. He wouldn't ask for like a million. He was just like like a dude in the hood. Yo, let me hold five dollars. Like I would get an email. Hey, this is Barack Obama. Yo, let me hold ten dollars. Right. And I got and I was like, yeah, he got ten dollars. And then a week later he asked for fucking twenty dollars. And then he would ask for ten again. And then he got so bad. Then Michelle was sending me an email. But he just he'd nickeled and dime America. And that's what supported his campaign. And the fact that he was right at the turn of of of of of of form of media that you could use to your advantage. He was the Facebook guy. He reached people to Facebook. Donald Trump was doing the same thing through Twitter. I can reach people. Why does he tweet so much? Why does he tweet so much every day? Because he knows motherfuckers would rather pick up a phone and read a treat than read a newspaper. Hundred percent. Fuck that. All I need is headlines.