Jack Black’s bandmate made a tasteless comment about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump just hours after the former president was nearly shot dead in Pennsylvania.
The actor’s comedy band Tenacious D was on stage in Sydney, Australia, on Sunday when Black brought out a birthday cake for his bandmate Kyle Gass and asked him to make a wish.
Gass, 64, responded: “Don’t miss Trump next time.”
The crowd responded mostly with cheers and laughter, with only a few disappointed reactions.
Last month, Black, 54, gave a speech at a star-studded fundraiser in Los Angeles for President Joe Biden, where he said “democracy was at stake” in November.
On Sunday, the actor’s band Tenacious D was on stage in Sydney, Australia, when Black brought out a birthday cake for his 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 reports Yahoo News.
In 2017, he told Conan O’Brien: “Now when we go out and perform on Tenacious D, I always feel a little pang of guilt, because it’s like this evil wizard stole our magic, but he just took away all the irony. And it worked and now he’s destroying the universe.”
Many on social media questioned Gass’s comments, arguing that it was too early to joke about attempting to assassinate Trump.
User Collin Rugg said: ‘Maybe, just maybe, these people are actually the evil ones.’
Last month, Black, 54, gave 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 editor Brandon Morse wrote: “And with that, any love I had for Jack Black and Tenacious D was gone.”
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Ring Wing commentator Charlie Kirk added: “These people are more twisted and vile than we thought. And shame on all the people in the audience who thought this ‘joke’ was funny.”
Black and his band are currently on the Spicy Meatball Tour, which began in May and will end on July 26, 2024.
Following the shooting that killed a bystander on Saturday, investigators were searching for clues about what may have driven 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks 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 on the part of the man shot dead by the Secret Service has led to conspiracy theories flourishing.
The FBI said it believes Crooks, who had bomb-making materials in the car he drove to the rally, acted alone.
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump gestures as he is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents as he is led off the stage.
Investigators have found no threatening comments on social media accounts or ideological positions that could help explain what led him to attack Trump.
Trump said on social media that the top of his right ear was pierced in the shooting.
But his advisers said he was “in very good spirits” ahead of his arrival in Milwaukee on Sunday for the Republican National Convention.
Two spectators were seriously injured, while a former area fire chief, Corey Comperatore, died.
Pennsylvania’s governor said Comperatore, 50, died a hero as he threw himself over his family to protect them.