Trevor Noah wants mob rule in America.
The Comedy Central host, who was born in South Africa and came to the United States in 2011, wants to change the U.S. Constitution to repeal the Electoral College because Hillary Clinton lost the election for president.
Noah — who’s lived in America for a whole half-decade — spent a large part of Wednesday’s show demanding an end to the way our country elects a president.
Tonight at 11/10c, Trevor unpacks the flawed Electoral College system. pic.twitter.com/1oFYLdGiwf
— The Daily Show (@TheDailyShow) December 8, 2016
Displaying his ignorance for how America’s government operates, Noah said, “If you were like me, you probably thought Americans were going to the polls to elect a president.
“But if you did vote, your vote didn’t go to Clinton or Trump or the best third party candidate out there, Harambe,” he said, referring to the zoo gorilla killed by workers. (That was supposed to be funny, apparently.)
“We people voted, they were actually voting for electors,” Noah continued, “Who are basically locally appointed representatives who then vote on your behalf.”
He said it “makes no sense to me.”
He likened the system to having someone ordering a sandwich for you, voicing your order for you, instead of you doing it yourself.
“It’s a bizarre twist on an already bizarre system,” Noah claimed. “Because there’s two ways to pick a president: Giving it to the person with the most votes, commonly known as democracy. And then, there’s how America does it.”
He continued, “The person with more votes should win. This is a weird system because no other country decides elections this way.”
Noah went on to complain that mayors, governors and American Idol contestants (again, apparently supposedly funny) aren’t elected through an Electoral College system — only the president.
“You know the system is broken because the person with more votes lost two of the last five elections,” he said, going on to compare the system to a toilet spraying sh*t back at the user.
“America’s like, ‘I’ve had this toilet for 200 years, I’ll be fine,'” he said, pretending to flush the handle.
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