Jack Black’s Tenacious D bandmate makes vile concert outburst about Trump shooting
A Jack Black bandmate made a tasteless comment about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, just hours after the former president was nearly shot dead in Pennsylvania.
The actor’s comedy band Tenacious D took the stage in Sydney, Australia, on Sunday when Black brought a birthday cake for bandmate Kyle Gass and asked him to make a wish.
Gass, 64, responded: “Don’t miss Trump next time.”
The audience reacted mostly with cheers and laughter, apart from a few disappointed reactions.
Last month, Black, 54, gave a speech at a famed Los Angeles fundraiser for President Joe Biden, where he said “democracy was at stake” in November.
The actor’s band, Tenacious D, was on stage in Sydney, Australia, on Sunday when Black brought a birthday cake for bandmate Kyle Gass (in yellow) and asked him to make a wish. Gass said, “Don’t miss Trump next time.”
The event, which raised more than $30 million, was also attended by former President Barack Obama, George Clooney, Julia Roberts and Barbra Streisand.
Black has joked in the past that Trump, like his band, thinks they are “the best” in the world, according to Yahoo! News.
He told Conan O’Brien in 2017: “Now, when we do Tenacious D, I always feel a little bit of guilt, because it’s like this evil f***ing warlock stole our magic but took all the irony out of it. And it worked and now he’s destroying the universe.”
Many people on social media have criticized Gass’s statements, saying it’s too early to joke about Trump’s attempted assassination.
X user Collin Rugg said, “Maybe, just maybe, these people are the bad guys.”
Last month, Black, 54, delivered a speech at a star-studded fundraiser in Los Angeles for President Joe Biden, where he said “democracy was at stake” in November
Black and his band are currently on the Spicy Meatball Tour. (L-R) Kyle Gass, Jack Black and bassist John Spike
Conservative Party editor Brandon Morse wrote: ‘And with that, all the love I felt for Jack Black and Tenacious D is gone.’
Thomas Matthew Crooks
Ring-wing commentator Charlie Kirk added: ‘These people are even more deranged and mean than we realised. And shame on all the people in the crowd who thought this “joke” was funny.’
Black and his band are currently on the Spicy Meatball Tour, which kicked off in May and is scheduled to end on July 26, 2024.
After the shooting that left a bystander dead on Saturday, detectives were searching for clues about what motivated Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, to carry out the shocking attack.
The FBI said it was investigating it as a possible act of domestic terrorism, but the lack of a clear ideological motive in the man shot dead by the Secret Service has led to many conspiracy theories.
According to the FBI, Crooks, who had bomb-making materials in the car he drove to the meeting, acted alone.
Republican presidential candidate and former President Donald Trump gestures as he is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents as he is escorted off the stage
Investigators found no threatening social media comments or ideological views that could explain why he targeted Trump.
Trump said on social media that the upper part of his right ear was pierced in the shooting.
But advisers said he was “in great spirits” ahead of his arrival Sunday in Milwaukee for the Republican Party convention.
Two bystanders were seriously injured and a former area fire chief, Corey Comperatore, was killed.
Pennsylvania’s governor said Comperatore, 50, died a hero protecting his family.