Actor Jack Black’s band Tenacious D has come underneath fireplace after his bandmate and fellow actor Kyle Gass made a joke in regards to the tried assassination of former US President Donald Trump final week.
The incident occurred when Black and Gass had been acting at Sydney’s ICC Theatre in Australia on July 13, the day a bullet grazed Trump’s ear at a marketing campaign rally in Pennsylvania, The Impartial reported.
In a video that went viral on social media, Black, 54, offered Gass with a cake on stage. He wished him a contented birthday earlier than asking him to “make a want.” In response, Gass blew out the candles on the cake and mentioned, “Don’t miss Trump subsequent time,” prompting laughter and applause from the viewers.
Gass’ feedback had been condemned by a number of folks on social media.
“Selling the assassination of a political determine is totally disgusting,” one individual wrote on TikTok.
“We’re so sorry that you’ve got skilled such disappointment and disrespect for somebody’s life and household. What if it was your member of the family who was shot?” mentioned one other.
A 3rd individual wrote: “Not humorous.”
“A father died whereas defending his daughter and different folks had been injured. These individuals are disgusting,” one other individual wrote on X.
The shooter, recognized as Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, was a registered Republican. He killed one supporter and wounded two others, along with Trump, on the Pennsylvania rally earlier than being shot useless by a sniper.
The gunman’s motive is unknown and the FBI is at present investigating the capturing as a doable act of home terrorism.
Trump, reflecting on the incident, mentioned he was “purported to be useless.”
Calling it a “surreal expertise,” the 78-year-old Republican informed the New York Put up he felt he had been saved “by luck or by God.”
