Former Australian Prime Minister and current U.S. Ambassador Kevin Rudd has responded to Tenacious D following Kyle Gass's joke about Donald Trump.
Rudd didn’t mince words, tellingat The Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, WI., “It makes me feel sick someone would joke about violence. Physically ill. People might think it’s a bit of ‘funny haha’ at a concert to run off at the mouth off about this stuff.”“It’s not,” he said. “It’s about threats to physical life; it’s about the near assassination of a former and prospective President of the United States, depending on the votes of the American people.
However, the damage was already done. On Tuesday, United Australia Party Senator Ralph Babet called on the federal government to deport Tenacious D in the wake of Gass’s comment. Frontier Touring has canceled six shows in Australia and New Zealand, including stops in Newcastle, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide, Wellington, and Auckland. The status of Tenacious D’s five scheduled U.S. shows in October remains uncertain.
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