Actor Tom Arnold is under fire for tweeting what many saw as a thinly-veiled assassination threat against President Donald Trump.
The Hollywood liberal took his hatred of the president to a new level in a tweet warning of a JFK-style assassination in response to Trump’s arrival in Texas for a rally on Thursday.
Just arrived at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas. Will be out shortly as we wait for more of you to get in! #TRUMP2020 pic.twitter.com/TB2baAFoBK
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 18, 2019
“Just arrived at the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas. Will be out shortly as we wait for more of you to get in! #TRUMP2020,” Trump tweeted ahead of the Dallas event, along with a video of the huge crowds waiting in line to see him.
Arnold – whose unhinged animosity toward the president has led to a string of embarrassing rants, accusations, and behaviors – reacted to Trump’s tweet with an eyebrow-raising response.
I wonder why this tweet from Tom Arnold was deleted ? pic.twitter.com/0EZTvLooyk
— Ivy May (@IvyMay46096430) October 18, 2019
The tweet was soon deleted after many Twitter users said they reported it.
And it’s been yanked by Twitter.
— Art Dunn (@wecatchbadguys) October 18, 2019
Heh pic.twitter.com/KNMR0tcrrU
— Hammy ✈ (@e2pilot) October 18, 2019
Twitter deleted Tom Arnold’s tweet for him.
If he was a conservative, he would have lost his verified mark. pic.twitter.com/yVaKReEwWu
— Mike (@fuctmind) October 18, 2019
The star of Viceland’s “The Hunt for the Trump Tapes with Tom Arnold” and former husband of comedian Roseanne Barr, Arnold claimed in 2018 that the Secret Service paid him a visit after he challenged Trump to a fight in a tweet.
My statement about the Secret Service visit to my house: pic.twitter.com/BFOht796aW
— Tom Arnold (@TomArnold) November 26, 2018
Arnold also referred to the infamous photo of comedian Kathy Griffin holding a fake, bloody Trump head.
Hey @TomArnold, it’s a Federal crime to threaten POTUS @realDonaldTrump
You asked him to fight you, and responded with “next time Kathy Griffin won’t be holding his fake head”, which suggested you would kill him in your proposed fight @SecretService pic.twitter.com/Mn3A9iOSRG
— Gabe Hoffman (@GabeHoff) October 21, 2018
Social media users wondered if Arnold’s tweet on Thursday in response to Trump’s arrival in Dallas was on the level of Griffin’s stunt.
Actor @TomArnold is making a thinly veiled assassination threat to president @realDonaldTrump. Will media cover this vile behavior and will Democrats demand Tom be banned from Twitter? Doubtful but I have a feeling Tom’s gonna get another visit from @SecretService soon. pic.twitter.com/y1dFTYXxNi
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) October 18, 2019
Does this break the rules, @Twitter @jack @TwitterSupport?
.@SecretService — this imbecile is threatening the President of the United States.
Red flag, red flag, red flag!!
— S.L. Stiles (@StacyLStiles) October 18, 2019
The Media Research Center condemned the actor’s tweet as one “worthy of suspension” from the social media platform.
“Clearly Mr. Arnold is desperate after not being able to find a smoking gun against Trump with his own detective work, not to mention his frustration over not finding pop culture relevance again. It seems this was his last Hail Mary attempt at hurting the president since the RussiaGate and UkraineGate Democrat failsafes failed to trigger,” the site’s Gabriel Hays wrote.
Arnold, who purported to have formed some kind of friendship with Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen, once worried that he could be assassinated because of supposedly damaging information he had on Trump, including tapes of him allegedly using the “n-word” while on “The Apprentice.”
Meanwhile, as Arnold was making his disgusting threat on Twitter, an armed man was actually arrested at the Trump rally in Dallas on Thursday evening.
Controversy over ‘oddball’ armed man arrested outside of Trump Dallas rally https://t.co/IVtn8Uzrdr
— Conservative News (@BIZPACReview) October 18, 2019
One Twitter user, who wondered jokingly if the man arrested was Arnold, got an immediate rebuke from the actor.
I don’t own a gun. I’m a real man. I will wrestle the traitor at his next rally if he’s willing. He’s in the WWE Hall Of Fame. For what? Extortion? Cowardice? Definitely not being a patriot. You support Donald Trump now. You are UnAmerican too.
— Tom Arnold (@TomArnold) October 18, 2019
New York congressional candidate Joey Saladino called for accountability in the wake of Arnold’s tweet, sparking a brief war or words between the two.
The Left is Radical and Violent.
How many times do they need to threaten violence on Trump and Republicans for them to be held accountable. https://t.co/td3BBYsc5h— Saladino for Congress (@JoeySalads) October 18, 2019
You’re trying too hard to sound smart.
— Saladino for Congress (@JoeySalads) October 18, 2019
Damn, last time I heard that comeback I was in 6th grade.
— Saladino for Congress (@JoeySalads) October 18, 2019
Twitter users torched Arnold for his latest expression of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Hey Tom Arnold!
Actors calling presidents traitors?
And making threats?
How about priests calling actors traitors?
You are such a disgrace.
I hear there are plenty of other countries you can go to. Why don’t you get the hell out of this one?#KeepAmericaGreat
— Fr. Frank Pavone ?? (@frfrankpavone) October 18, 2019
Tom arnold is one sick puppy. #TrumpRallyDallas pic.twitter.com/ixJREpFfLl
— Fitzpatrick (@TedFitzpatrick3) October 18, 2019
That tweet lasted about as long as his career.
— Rob (@9kidshelpme) October 18, 2019
WTF. He’s sick
— josh (@JoshLeCash) October 18, 2019
James Woods did less to get banned.
— classical hero (@HeroClassical) October 18, 2019
@jack explain why there’s two different paths of punishment when it comes to conservatives vs liberals ? If @TomArnold was a conservative he’d lost his blue verification check mark. What gives ?
— Rich (@Rich_72384) October 18, 2019
The internet is forever @TomArnold if you hate this country so much, why not leave?
— Dan H (@dalsx1) October 18, 2019
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