Following an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, Jack Black’s Tenacious D wished, “Don’t miss Trump next time.”
Tenacious D at “Rock am Ring” in 2016 : Thomas Jacob “Jack” Black (right) and Kyle Richard Gass. Photo Credit: Sven Mandel, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
An assassin attempted to end the life of former President Donald Trump while the President was at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania outside of Pittsburgh. The assassin’s bullet failed to fatally wound President Trump, but pierced his ear. While assassin failed to end the life of President Trump, the assassin’s bullets di strike Corey Comperatore, who had used his own body to shield his wife and daughter who were at the rally with him.
The assassin also wounded David Dutch and James Copenhaver according to Pennsylvania State Police.
This video makes me furious. UNHUMANS did this!! pic.twitter.com/Io799XbNdn
— Tanya Tay Posobiec ☦️ (@realTanyaTay) July 13, 2024
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At a concert event for their Spicy Meatball Tour in Sydney Australia, the band celebrated the birthday of member Kyle Gass with Black singing Happy Birthday and a birthday cake being delivered by a man in a robot costume.
Black then informs Gass to make a wish. Gass then states, “Don’t miss Trump next time.” Much of the crowd begins laughing and chuckling. The video concludes with Black saying, “Thank you.”
Tenacious D “Don’t miss miss Trump next time”
These people are sick and want you dead pic.twitter.com/3qaVioquGu
— 🌴 Josh Lekach 🌴 (@JoshLekach) July 15, 2024
Less than a month ago, Black endorsed President Joe Biden saying, “When democracy is at stake Jack Black answers the call. Mr. President, you’re welcome.”
Washed-up former star Jack Black appears at a Biden fundraiser because “democracy is at stake.”
He says “My president needs me!” while wearing a “Dark Brandon” shirt and American flag overalls.
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) June 17, 2024
Back in 2022, he spoke to The Hill discussing the then upcoming midterm elections. He told the outlet, “It feels like it’s going be the end of the world if we don’t all get on board and vote.”
He added, “I was just feeling a little anxious about the upcoming election. It’s so consequential, and I’ve been listening to my favorite podcasts and getting a little freaked out. I didn’t feel like I was really participating enough and I wanted to find a way to help get out the vote.”
“It seems like it’s escalating every election cycle, that it becomes more and more important to vote, and more consequential, and it’s so exhausting,” Black continued. “But so much is on the ballot this cycle. We’ve got – a woman’s right to choose is on the ballot. The environment is on the ballot, environmental protections. And not to mention democracy is on the ballot. There’s so, there’s so many divides in this country right now.”
(L-R): Plazir-15 Security Detail, the Duchess of Plazir-15 (Lizzo) and Captain Bombardier (Jack Black) in Lucasfilm’s THE MANDALORIAN, season three, exclusively on Disney+. ©.
Specifically addressing President Trump, The Hill reported that he referred to him “as a threat that’s ‘always lurking in the background.'”
Black stated, “He’s got to run because he’s also running away from himself and his mountain of lawsuits. If he can win again, in his mind, he’s probably thinking, ‘Oh, then that’ll erase the time that I lost. I’ll be a winner again!'”
Awkwafina, Jack Black & Karen Gillan in interview for Jumanji: The Next Level in 2019. Photo Credit: QUE TAL UM CINEMINHA?, CC BY 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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He also claimed the 2024 election cycle would “be scary,” he detailed. “So it’ll be scary. But at the end of the day, what’s more disturbing are all the people that support him. And in a way I don’t even really think he believes all of that hate talk that he’s doing.”
“I think he’s working the crowd and he knows how all this is going. He’s actually kind of brilliant at figuring out what people want to hear and just saying [it,] and it’s scary that people want a leader like that,” he continued. “I don’t see him as causing all of that hate. I see him as just using all of the hate that’s already there.”
Jack Black. Photo Credit: Renan Katayama, CC BY-SA 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons
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