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UPDATED 3:52am PT: The final concert of Tenacious D’s Australia tour has been postponed following alleged comments made by Kyle Gass about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.
The guitarist’s comment “Don’t miss Trump next time” when his co-frontman Jack Black asked him to make a wish has drawn widespread criticism, with one Australian senator demanding the wish be granted Tribute band to be deported.
Now, concert promoter Frontier Touring has posted on social media that tonight’s concert at the Newcastle Entertainment Centre has been “postponed,” and ticket holders are being asked to hold on to their tickets for now. Tenacious D’s tour Down Under continues for another week, before the band heads to Auckland, New Zealand for a show. There is no news yet on shows after tonight.
LAST: A birthday wish from the other side of the world about Donald Trump has unleashed hell on Tenacious D’s Kyle Gass.
“Don’t miss Trump next time,” Jack Black’s longtime bandmate told the ICC Sydney Theatre on stage in Australia on July 14 as he was led by the Kung Fu Panda star. Most of the packed room burst out laughing – as you can see in the video footage below.
Coming less than 24 hours after an assassination attempt on the former president and presumptive GOP nominee, Gass’s crude comment largely ignores calls from politicians across the board to lower the rhetoric and temperature. Once seen as a dull rematch with Joe Biden, this year’s White House race has devolved into a furious battle in a narrow campaign between the two POTUSs.
Representatives for Gass did not respond to a request for comment on their client’s remarks. If and when they have something to say, this post will be updated. Tenacious D’s SRO tour Down Under continues for just over a week before the band heads to Auckland, New Zealand for a show.
Tenacious D kicks off a U.S. tour in October with a sold-out show in the state of Ohio for newly elected GOP VP Senator JD Vance. Not that the Black Democrat has been out of the domestic political mix for long.
On June 7, a stars-and-stripes-clad Black gave a loud endorsement of the sitting president at a mega-fundraiser in DTLA. “If the president wins in November — yes! — I’m sure I’ll get a big shoutout in his victory speech for what I gave up to be here,” Black told the well-heeled crowd at the Peacock Theater. “Because when democracy is at stake, Jack Black answers the call. Mr. President, you’re welcome.”
Biden, clearly suffering from jet lag, was the headliner at the event, interviewed on stage by Jimmy Kimmel with Barack Obama.
At this time, there is no mention in the Tenacious DX feed of the onstage comments or the shooting in Butler, PA on July 13th. The most recent posting in the band’s feed and on Gass’ feed is from July 7th.
The TikTok user who first posted the video of Gass’s comments appears to have now deleted them. But to say that MAGA supporters and more had a harsh reaction to Gass’s ill-considered words on his 64th birthday would be an understatement.
At the same time, in an apples-to-oranges comparison, it’s worth noting that many Republicans, including Trump, ridiculed the brazen November 2022 attack on former Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s 82-year-old husband in the celebrity couple’s locked-down San Francisco home. A security lapse by those protecting the person second in line to the presidency, Pelosi was the intended target of the attack, the gavel-wielding David DePape admitted.
“This is not a path we can continue down,” Pelosi said at the time of the attack, in words that still ring true today.