Jim Gaffigan Knows Trump Supporters Might “Never Forgive” Him For Criticism: “I Don’t Regret It”

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Up until taking on Gov. Tim Walz on Saturday Night Live, Jim Gaffigan tended to stay away from politics in his comedy. But the Emmy-winning comedian doesn’t regret the times he spoke his mind, including a 2020 tweet in which he called Donald Trump “a liar and a criminal,” despite losing some Trump supporters as fans. “I regret that people think that I was criticizing people that support Trump.

And that was never the intention,” he explained on The Daily Beast’s The Last Laugh podcast. “I regret—someone said like, now I can’t follow you anymore and I kind of said ‘F you’ to them.

But it’s weird because I think authenticity is really an important thing, not only as a comedian, but also with your children. “For me, I don’t regret it, but I also do acknowledge that there are true die-hard Trump fans who probably enjoyed my comedy, but because they feel so passionately will never forgive me.

But also, something I’ve noticed in doing stand-up for so long is, you’re going to lose people. You’re also going to attract people.