{"id":76087,"date":"2017-06-23T06:47:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T10:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=76087"},"modified":"2017-06-23T06:51:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T10:51:14","slug":"now-johnny-depp-jokes-about-a-trump-assassination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=76087","title":{"rendered":"Now Johnny Depp jokes about a Trump &#8216;assassination&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"story-body__h1\">Glastonbury 2017: Johnny Depp talks of Trump &#8216;assassination&#8217;<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->By Mark Savage<br \/>\nBBC Music reporter<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"JOHNNY DEPP TALKS TRUMP ASSASINATION !!!!!!!\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N_heVjWirS8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\"><strong>Actor Johnny Depp appeared to threaten US President Donald Trump during a speech at the Glastonbury Festival.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Can you bring Trump here?&#8221; he asked the audience, as he introduced a screening of his film The Libertine.<\/p>\n<p>After receiving jeers from the crowd, he added: &#8220;You misunderstand completely. When was the last time an actor assassinated a president?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I want to clarify,&#8221; he added, &#8220;I&#8217;m not an actor. I lie for a living [but] it&#8217;s been a while. Maybe it&#8217;s about time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The star acknowledged that his comments &#8211; which may have been a reference to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln by actor John Wilkes Booth in 1865 &#8211; would prove controversial.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By the way, this is going to be in the press and it&#8217;ll be horrible,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s just a question, I&#8217;m not insinuating anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He is not the first US celebrity to allude to killing the president.<\/p>\n<p>At a rally in Washington DC, Madonna said she <a class=\"story-body__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-38716714\">thought &#8220;an awful lot about blowing up the White House&#8221;<\/a> and the US rapper Snoop Dogg <a class=\"story-body__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/entertainment-arts-39268735\">shot a toy gun at a Donald Trump character<\/a> in a music video.<\/p>\n<p>But on social media, some have criticised Depp&#8217;s comments &#8211; which come days after a <a class=\"story-body__link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-us-canada-40275055\">gunman shot and injured Republican congressman and four others<\/a> in Virginia in the US.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Casual Johnny Depp: &#8216;When was the last time an actor assassinated a President?&#8217; GOP reps targeted &amp; shot days ago,&#8221; <a class=\"story-body__link-external\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/Chet_Cannon\/status\/878036233217228800\">tweeted one user, Chet Cannon<\/a>, referring to the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The US Secret Service is aware of Depp&#8217;s comments, according to ABC News.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_76089\" style=\"width: 634px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/96601669_4c7da41b-9f99-464a-a80f-087cfe4491ad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-76089\" class=\"wp-image-76089 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/96601669_4c7da41b-9f99-464a-a80f-087cfe4491ad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"624\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/96601669_4c7da41b-9f99-464a-a80f-087cfe4491ad.jpg 624w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/96601669_4c7da41b-9f99-464a-a80f-087cfe4491ad-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-76089\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">EPA \u2013 The Pirates of the Caribbean actor said his comments were \u201cgoing to be in the press and it\u2019ll be horrible\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Festival-goers in Somerset met his comments about President Trump with laughter, albeit mixed with shock.<\/p>\n<p>Depp &#8211; wearing distressed jeans and a black fedora &#8211; was mobbed by fans as he arrived at Worthy Farm.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the BBC afterwards, one fan was more concerned with meeting her idol than analysing his politics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t even know what to say. I&#8217;m going to die,&#8221; said Jess Gallagher. &#8220;He reached out and touched my hand and I don&#8217;t know what to do.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s an amazing actor and I&#8217;ve loved him ever since I studied him in year 11 in A-Level drama. I can&#8217;t cope!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/entertainment-arts-40377075\">http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/entertainment-arts-40377075<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glastonbury 2017: Johnny Depp talks of Trump &#8216;assassination&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76087\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}