Jack Black, who has endorsed President Joe Biden, burst into laughter after his bandmate joked about Saturday’s assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump.
Black sang “Happy Birthday” and presented a birthday cake to his “Tenacious D” bandmate Kyle Gass during a Sydney, Australia, performance Sunday night. Video footage posted to X shows what happened next.
“Make a wish,” Black said after the song.
“Don’t miss Trump next time,” Gass responded.
Applause and laughter erupted from the crowd while Black also laughed at the joke.
This happened one night after a gunman attempted to assassinate the former president, shooting him in the ear at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The shot also killed a rally attendee and injured others.
Jack Black’s Anti-Trump History
Black called Trump an “evil f-cking warlock” in an interview with Conan O’Brien in 2017, saying the then-president stole the comedy approach from his band “Tenacious D,” according to The Hollywood Reporter.
“It’s like he saw us and said, ‘I’m going to use that technique,’” Black said at the time. “Now, when we go out and perform Tenacious D I always have a twinge of guilt because it’s like this evil f-cking warlock stole our magic and took out all the irony. … And it worked, and now he’s destroying the universe.”
In 2018, Black called Trump “a piece of sh-t” during the Hollywood Walk of Fame Ceremony.
In 2020, Black advertised a podcast called “Bobbo Supreme,” an “obvious and intended” mockery of the Trump presidency
