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Outspoken comedian, actor and activist Dick Gregory spoke with Roland Martin Wednesday about the possible impact of a Donald Trump presidency and offered a warning for the nation.

During his appearance on NewsOne Now, the 84-year-old criticized the 2016 electoral cycle: “Anytime you got to vote for the lesser of two evils you’re evil yourself – that’s how Hitler came to power.”

Continuing his assessment of the 2016 presidential election, Gregory said, “Few people know that Hitler won election by 288 votes … and almost wiped the world out.” 

When asked where we go from here, Gregory responded: “We don’t go nowhere, ’cause it’s not your business … If you ever saw Trump’s television shows [they’re] brilliant – so how he get so stupid all at once?”

“If I went to apply for a job collecting garbage, they would ask me to bring in my last year’s tax return. You have a president he don’t have to bring his in and y’all tolerate it and don’t know where it’s going … that’s what it’s about,” Gregory said.

Martin asked what Americans should do in the next four years under a Trump presidency, prompting the activist to issue a stark warning: “You don’t have to do nothing … this country is not going to make four years, it’s over.”

Gregory explained the nation will head into a period of “decline.” He added, “The Romans, the Greeks, [and] the Egyptians, all of them failed.”

Diagnosing a perceived flaw in Black America, Gregory said, “Our problem is we think we [are] a part of this government and you’re not.” 

Speaking about Trump’s rise to power, his use of inflammatory rhetoric on the campaign trail, the appointment of a known White nationalist in Steve Bannon to Trump’s administration, and the protests following Election Day, Gregory explained the nation didn’t all of a sudden become this way:

“Everything you’re seeing … something’s wrong with it.”

Watch Roland Martin, Dick Gregory and the NewsOne Now panel discuss the state of the nation after the election of Donald Trump in the video clip above.

PHOTO CREDIT: Getty

Watch NewsOne Now with Roland Martin, in its new time slot on TV One.

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Activist Dick Gregory Warns America About Potential Impact Of Trump’s Election  was originally published on newsone.com