Rational person Johnny Depp made a joke about being the next John Wilkes Booth

Depp’s faux-puzzled reaction to the crowd’s response indicates that he thought it was a pretty clever reference to Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth, who was an actor, but the fact that he would make a joke like this suggests that he’s not aware of the huge (and completely idiotic) controversy surrounding the production of Julius Caesar in New York that features a Trump-esque figure getting stabbed to death. At the very least, Depp should know that simply acknowledging the death of a president is completely inappropriate—at least if the president is a Republican—so it should only be matter of time before Trump supporters start sending death threats to Depp.

To his credit, though, Depp did sort of take back the joke immediately after saying it, adding, “I want to clarify, I’m not an actor. I lie for a living.”