Interview · moment 19 of 36
Shane's Dad, the Trump Assassination Joke, and Fox News Backlash
from #173 - Shane Gillis | The Tim Dillon Show · #173
3 min
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Shane describes his dad's reaction to a Fox News story about his joke that it'd be funny if Trump got shot, and details his dad's pro-Trump stance versus his liberal stepmom naming pets after political figures.
- Shane did a joke at the Stand saying Trump's assassination would be objectively funny and the footage would be comical.
- Reporters at the show took down the joke and sent it to Fox News, which ran a story claiming Shane was calling for Trump's assassination.
- Shane's dad got furious when he saw the Fox News segment, telling Shane he was burning their last bridge with the Trump people.
- Shane's dad's wife named their three dogs Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Frederick Douglass, and Maya Angelou — one pair deliberately colored black and white.
- On election night, Shane's dad texted him "he did it," and Shane questioned whether he meant "we did it" instead.
- Shane's mom went to bed upset after the election, but his dad seemed fine with the result, which struck Shane as revealing.
- Tim notes that a lot of what's happening politically is performance — people putting on a show rather than genuinely broken up.
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