With just one off-the-cuff joke about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump in 2024, Kyle Gass completely uprooted Tenacious D’s career path, and the musician says in a new Rolling Stone article that he’s felt “terrible” about it ever since.
In the Q&A published Wednesday (Jan. 21), Gass opened up about the long-term regret he’s experienced since quipping that he wished the twice-impeached president’s shooter wouldn’t “miss Trump next time” while presented with a birthday cake on stage at a Tenacious D show alongside bandmate Jack Black. According to Gass, he had no idea at the time “people [were] gonna pick that up,” something he now realizes…