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JOHNNY DEPP courted controversy at Britain's Glastonbury music festival with a joke about assassinating Donald Trump, pondering how long it had been since an actor had killed a US president.
Depp, 54, was speaking to a crowd on Thursday evening as he introduced a screening of his 2004 film"The Libertine"at the music and performing arts festival. Discussion turned to the topic of US President Trump.
"It is just a question, I'm not insinuating anything... When was the last time an actor assassinated a president?"Depp asked the audience, in a possible reference to actor John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
"Now I want to clarify, I'm not an actor. I lie for a living. However, it's been a while, and maybe it's time."
Depp's comments come less than a month after comedian Kathy Griffin drew strong criticism for posing in photographs holding up the likeness of a bloody, severed head resembling Trump. CNN ultimately fired Griffin from its annual New Year's Eve broadcast over the controversy.
Last week, a gunman shot at Republican lawmakers who were practising for a charity baseball game.
