Jack Black’s Tenacious D under fire for Kyle Gass’ Donald Trump joke, hours after shooting

Jack Black’s Tenacious D bandmate told an ill-timed Donald Trump joke on stage Sunday in Sydney just hours after the attempted assassination of former president.

“Make a wish,” Black urges band mate Kyle Gass. He blows out the candles and says, “Don’t miss Trump next time.”

It’s not the first time Tenacious D, the comedy rock duo formed in 1994, have joked about the “evil” Trump.

In 2017, in a conversation with Conan O’Brien, Black was asked if he believed Tenacious D’s “I’m the best and everything I do is amazing shtick” had influenced Trump.

“Yes. In fact I feel Donald Trump saw a Tenacious D concert, because that’s our whole thing, just like we are the greatest band in the world, no one can touch us, we are the best,” Black responded, per Yahoo!.

“And he just saw us and said, ‘I’m going to use that technique. I’m the greatest president. I got all the greatest people…’ and then he used it and became president.

“And now, when we go out and perform Tenacious D, I always have like, a little twinge of guilt, because it’s like this evil (expletive) warlock stole our magic, but just took out all the irony. And it worked and now he’s destroying the universe.”

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