{"id":111996,"date":"2024-07-16T15:01:32","date_gmt":"2024-07-16T15:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/16\/tenacious-d-postpone-all-future-plans-in-the-wake-of-kyle-gass-controversial-donald-trump-comment\/"},"modified":"2024-07-16T15:01:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-16T15:01:32","slug":"tenacious-d-postpone-all-future-plans-in-the-wake-of-kyle-gass-controversial-donald-trump-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/07\/16\/tenacious-d-postpone-all-future-plans-in-the-wake-of-kyle-gass-controversial-donald-trump-comment\/","title":{"rendered":"Tenacious D postpone &#8216;all future plans&#8217; in the wake of Kyle Gass&#8217; controversial Donald Trump comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2024-07-16\" datetime=\"1721142092\" pubdate=\"\">16 July 2024<\/time>\n<\/p>\n<p>Tenacious D have put &#8220;all future creative plans&#8221; on hold in the wake of Kyle Gass&#8217; comments about the assassination attempt on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/donald-trump\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Tenacious D have cancelled their tour<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/jack-black\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,jack-black\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jack Black<\/a> has confirmed the group have cancelled their current tour and insisted he was &#8220;blindsided&#8221; by his bandmate&#8217;s remarks on stage in Sydney over the weekend, which made light of the shooting at a campaign rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday (13.07.24), which saw the presidential hopeful shot in the ear, one attendee dead and two others injured.<\/p>\n<p>Jack had sang &#8216;Happy Birthday&#8217; to Kyle and asked him to make a wish, with his bandmate replying: \u201cDon\u2019t miss Trump next time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the wake of backlash over the 64-year-old musician&#8217;s remarks, Frontier Touring postponed another Australian show at the Newcastle Entertainment Centre, which was scheduled for Tuesday (16.07.24) and Jack has now confirmed the concert series is over for good.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote said in a statement: &#8220;I was blindsided by what was said at the show on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI would never condone hate speech or encourage political violence in any form.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cAfter much reflection, I no longer feel it is appropriate to continue the Tenacious D tour, and all future creative plans are on hold. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;I am grateful to the fans for their support and understanding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nKyle has also apologised for the &#8220;lack of judgement&#8221; he showed with his &#8220;improvised&#8221; comment.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe said: &#8220;The line I improvised onstage Sunday night in Sydney was highly inappropriate, dangerous and a terrible mistake. I don\u2019t condone violence of any kind, in any form, against anyone. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;What happened was a tragedy, and I\u2019m incredibly sorry for my severe lack of judgement. I profoundly apologize to those I\u2019ve let down and truly regret any pain I\u2019ve caused.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nFollowing the shooting, a Secret Service sniper shot dead the assailant, who has been named by the FBI as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks.<\/p>\n<p>\nTrump was treated in hospital but released hours later ahead of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/tenacious-postpone-future-plans-wake-kyle-gass-controversial-donald-trump-comment-1403019.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16 July 2024 Tenacious D have put &#8220;all future creative plans&#8221; on hold in the wake of Kyle Gass&#8217; comments about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump. Tenacious D have cancelled their tour Jack Black has confirmed the group have cancelled their current tour and insisted he was &#8220;blindsided&#8221; by his bandmate&#8217;s remarks on stage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":111997,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[54,5486,8767,8766],"class_list":{"0":"post-111996","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-jack-black","10":"tag-kyle-gass","11":"tag-tenacious-d"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}