‘Crazy Rich Asian’ star Ronny Chieng congratulates conservatives for ‘not being stupid’

“Crazy Rich Asian” star and “The Daily Show” correspondent Ronny Chieng let slip Tuesday how he really feels about the people who voted for President-elect Donald Trump on Election Day.

The actor and comedian appeared on ABC’s “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” and told the host that he thinks there’s nothing wrong with voters having a conservative mindset, but noted that there are a lot of idiots in the country.

“There is nothing inherently bad or bad about it [a] conservative mindset, I just think we’d like to have conservatives who aren’t stupid,” Chieng said, as Kimmel and the audience roared with laughter.

Kimmel sparked the discussion by asking Chieng about his experience covering Election Night on “The Daily Show,” wondering if the comedian and the show’s crew were prepared for the results that evening.

The comedian compared watching the results come in that night to witnessing a car crash in slow motion.

“Yes we were,” Chieng replied.

“But I think we kind of knew where it stood, being people with our finger on the pulse, unfortunately.”

He added, “And covering the election live in America was both a dream come true as a political history junkie — a US political history junkie, and it was also like watching a car slowly crash into the country.”

“And there’s not much you can do about it at that point except make dumb jokes about it.”

The comedian went on to rationalize Trump’s victory as the pendulum swinging back to conservatism from liberalism, as he says it has always done in American history.

He then noted that there is nothing wrong with conservatives in theory, but made his disparaging remarks about actual ones.

Chieng went on to talk about his “MAGA friends”.

“I have friends from MAGA. I have friends who are MAGA now, you know, I’m trying – that’s how much I love America – I’m making friends with MAGA people. But sometimes, my MAGA friends, like their messages are so complicated,” he said. “I can’t get at what their core issue is because the surface-level messages are so chaotic.”

He continued, “How sometimes my MAGA friends will be like, ‘Ronny, China caused COVID, but COVID isn’t real.’ I don’t know how I feel about it now.”