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Comedian George Lopez has come under fire for an apparent joke about an $80 million bounty for President Donald Trump's head.
The 58-year-old comic wrote, "We'll do it for half," responding to an Instagram post about the purported bounty, which was suggested at a funeral procession for Iranian general Qassem Soleimani on Sunday. Soleimani was killed in a U.S. airstrike Friday.
A eulogist at the procession, broadcast live on Iran's state-owned Channel One television network, apparently called for the $80 million bounty while addressing crowds in the city of Mashhad. "We are 80 million Iranians. If each one of us puts aside one American dollar, we will have 80 million American dollars, and we will reward anyone who brings us [Trump]'s head with that amount," the unidentified man said.
There is no indication the bounty is endorsed by the Iranian government or Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/tv/celebrity/comedian-george-lopez-under-fire-for-instagram-joke-about-dollar80-million-bounty-for-trumps-head/ar-BBYF4De?li=BBnb7Kz
dem4decades
(11,304 posts)"I don't want to get political but.......
Fuck Trump!
And fuck you if you voted for him!"
ck4829
(35,091 posts)LakeArenal
(28,845 posts)Cuz I sure hate dump.
dalton99a
(81,578 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)The reality is that Iran is smart enough to know that Trump is not popular in the US. If that saves this country from a direct hit in this conflict, then I'll back out of criticizing Lopez.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)are the very ones who cheered on phrases from actual politicians such as "second amendment remedies..." or Trump saying the Second Amendment people might take out a President Hillary Clinton to stop her from appointing liberal Supreme Court justices..."
But, as they're half-wits and idiots, they'll pretend it never happened.
Karadeniz
(22,572 posts)bdamomma
(63,922 posts)he won't be the first to say something.
smb
(3,475 posts)$1.98 would be a more reasonable price.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)chowder66
(9,080 posts)It's morbid I know but that's the thing; I know it's wrong. I'm not laughing at it because I find it appropriate, I'm laughing at it because it's inappropriate.
He doesn't truly mean it. It isn't going to happen - at least by George it isn't and that's why I can laugh.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)I really like him, and am delighted with that joke.
Initech
(100,102 posts)He gets invited to the White House. Fucking hypocritical assholes!