83 True Things About Tires Star Shane Gillis

“I’ll never forget how happy I was when Trump got elected and we were at that mic,” Shane Gillis said in an episode of his podcast released in 2017. “I got on right when he won Florida and all that shit, and I got on, I was like, ‘Woo! Trump, baby! You fucking bitch, pussy-ass motherfuckers. You didn’t think this was gonna happen?’”

“When Trump won,” Shane Gillis said that same year, “white people, white dudes were locking eyes and being like, ‘Hell yeah, dude. It’s time, dude. We did it. We’re like cicadas, dude. We rose. Every four years we come out of the dirt.” 

In another episode, Shane Gillis expressed his support for Donald Trump’s 2017 travel ban: “Anything Donald Trump’s down with, I’m down with,” he said. “The ban on Muzzies? Well, the travel ban… Yeah, I’m fucking down with the travel ban, who gives a fuck?”

A few months later, Shane Gillis complained that the left and the media exacerbate Donald Trump’s mistakes and push him to fail. “I think that’s what annoys me the most about the whole—and I end up sounding like I’m a conservative, like I’m some alt-right fucking dickhead because I hate what the left is doing,” he said. “Obviously I hate what the right’s doing.”

“We’ve both been kind of tongue-in-cheek alt-right, like, jokingly like, ‘Fuck yeah, dude, Trump’s the man,’” he told his cohost, Matt McCusker. “Clearly joking. If you believe us, you’re a fucking idiot.”

A few weeks later, Shane Gillis defended Donald Trump’s statements in the Access Hollywood tape. “Are you trying to fucking sit here and say Donald Trump said he sexually assaulted women?” he asked a liberal friend. “Because it sounded like, in that statement, he was like, ‘They give you consent, because you’re famous.’ It sounds like that’s exactly what he said, this isn’t sexual assault, because they give you consent.”

“For you to sit here and be like, ‘I heard a man talking to another man, that he thought was in private, talking about getting pussy’—you took from that comment, ‘Sounds like he sexually assaulted some women,’” Shane Gillis said. “I think Donald Trump is probably above, in his mind, above sexually assaulting a woman.” 

“He’s a fucking dumb fucking psycho,” Shane Gillis continued, “and I don’t doubt that he could or has sexually assaulted women—it’s a harsh accusation. But off that comment alone, there’s no way that I would ever be like, ‘Wow, he’s just okay with sexual assault.’”

“It discredits it when you wait until October, September of an election,” Shane Gillis said of the women who accused Donald Trump of sexual assault. “It kinda sounds a little fucking weird—it does discredit it.”

“Dude, I can’t stop loving Trump,” Shane Gillis said in 2018. “I do think obviously he’s a fucking moron, but—I mean, I don’t even think he’s a moron. He just has zero respect for anything. And he just shows up and is like, ‘The media is gay, sorry.’”

“I’m just a fucking racist daddy who was chilling, and then I get on fucking Instagram and someone’s like, ‘Fuck white people.’ I’m like, you know what? We’re the best. Do you like cars? Do you like electricity? Well, guess what, we did it.”

In 2022, Shane Gillis offered The New Yorker a revised accounting of his 2016 election night, claiming that he was being ironic when he celebrated Trump’s win: “People were, like, crying onstage,” he recalled. “So I went on and I was, like, ‘We’re back, dudes! White dudes are back—let’s go!’ Like, obviously an insane thing. But people were mad. Which, I guess, is why it’s funny.”

According to that profile, Shane Gillis “often tells audiences, as a conciliatory gesture, that he never voted for Trump.”

During a five-hour election livestream in 2020, Shane Gillis complained about liberal friends who chided him for not voting. “The actual pussy ones that are like, if you don’t vote, you’re basically voting for Trump,” he said. “I had to tell them, pardon me, I’m not gonna vote, because otherwise I probably would vote for Trump.”

“It’s like, don’t make me vote,” Shane Gillis continued. “You guys are the only ones scolding me, so I’m gonna want you to lose. I only want those people to lose. I don’t care about how this goes.”

Later in that livestream, under the mistaken impression that Trump had won, Shane Gillis asked: “How big a pile of shit are the Democrats? They got rolled again against literally a retarded guy. Twice. That’s a guy that nobody would like. That’s a guy that nobody would like if you ran into him in person. You’d be like, that guy’s a huge piece of shit. Fuck that guy. Fuck that pussy. Instead, the left is so fucking gay that we’re all like, yo, that guy actually rules. That’s how fucking gay they are.”

Even later, Shane Gillis told his cohosts: “The only time we all get together is to celebrate President Donald J. Trump. The only time we get together is to celebrate monumental election victories.”

Shane Gillis once described a woman getting mad at him over his admiration for Donald Trump. “I was like, I just hate the people who hate him,” he told her. “The people who are most open about hating Donald Trump tend to be fucking douchebags.”  

Later in that conversation, Shane Gillis complained about critiques of white supremacy during Trump’s first term. “It gets me going,” he said. “I’m just a fucking racist daddy who was chilling, and then I get on fucking Instagram and someone’s like, ‘Fuck white people.’ I’m like, you know what? We’re the best. Do you like cars? Do you like electricity? Well, guess what, we did it.”

Shane Gillis once complained about a group of Chinese people he encountered in Penn Station: “I just want to walk through there and there’s zero spatial awareness,” he said. “The fucking, the Chinee have none. They would just walk right into you.”

When his friend, the Holocaust denier and Sandy Hook truther Andrew Pacella, told him that Charles Murray scientifically documented the poor spatial awareness of Asian people in his book The Bell Curve, Shane Gillis marveled: “Oh really? It’s in there? I just gained it from experience.” 

Shane Gillis once said of the book Human Accomplishment, in which Charles Murray argues that European men drove most human advancement throughout history: “Someone should have pulled Murray aside and been like, 'Yo, dude, everyone knows. You don't need to write a book. Yeah, white dudes invented everything. Don’t write about it.'”

"His point was Haiti’s a fucking shithole. And I think everybody here can agree that Haiti is definitely a shithole.”

In a 2018 episode of his podcast, Shane Gillis credited Western Europeans with ending slavery. “This is an institution that's been around since as long as humans were even remotely civilized,” he said, citing the conservative intellectual Thomas Sowell. “They've had caste systems and slavery and then it led up, in human history, it took the great white man to say, ‘Knock it off!’”

“If you want to break it down, like a psycho, into races and geography of all the areas in the world that were bad boys throughout human history,” Shane Gillis continued, “which they all were, the one that was like, ‘We should knock this off' is the fucking British.”

In the wake of JD Vance’s 2024 comments about Haitian people in Ohio, Shane Gillis said: “Obviously, obviously putting 20,000 Haitians in a small town in Springfield, Ohio is crazy.”

In 2018, Shane Gillis defended Donald Trump’s description of Haiti and El Salvador as “shithole countries.”

“It’s like, ‘He’s racist for that,’ which I guess you could paint it that way, if you wanted Norwegians instead of Haitians,” Shane Gillis said. “But his point was Haiti’s a fucking shithole. And I think everybody here can agree that Haiti is definitely a shithole.”

“I don’t think the people are necessarily shithole-ites,” Shane Gillis continued. “They would have had a lot of money, but the Clintons and the Clinton Foundation sucked it right out of them. Sucked it right out of their Black French dicks.”

In 2025, Shane Gillis complained about “race baiting” in the film Sinners: “The only white people in the movie were evil nasty fucks,” he said. “Obviously it's strategic. They shoehorned Native Americans and Asians into the good side, so it was everybody against the honks.”

Eight years earlier, Shane Gillis complained about the portrayal of white people in the film Get Out: “That was propaganda,” he said. “That was fucking insane. The evil white people, dude.” 

“I knew from the first time I saw a preview for it, I was like, are they really gonna make a movie where literally the monster is white people?” Shane Gillis continued. “That’s fucking crazy.” 

“It’s unsettling that people actually think this is a good movie,” Shane Gillis said. “It’s fucking crazy.” 

“Fucking Jordan Peele’s bitch ass, dude, what a fucking pussy,” Shane Gillis said. “All those evil white people made his bitch ass rich.”

“By the way, we were driving through North Philly to get to the movie theater,” Shane Gillis added. “Boy does that need some fucking gentrifying.”

In another episode of his podcast, Shane Gillis complained about the portrayal of Black people in the film Hidden Figures: “The movie is, ‘Black women are the smartest and a bunch of white dudes try to stop them from being smart.’”

“I didn’t see it,” Shane Gillis added. “I knew what the fuck it was. I knew exactly what it was.”

“They added racism to that movie that didn’t exist,” Shane Gillis continued, describing a fictionalized scene in which a character walks through the rain to a segregated restroom. “Do we really need that? Do we need her to walk to the colored-only bathroom? We don’t need that.”

Discussing the Golden Globes ceremony almost a year later, Shane Gillis was still upset about Hidden Figures: “That whole thing was a joke, any award,” he said. “That one fat Black lady from Hidden Figures—the cast of Hidden Figures, I don’t think they ever have to act again. They just get to go to every award show and cry and clap.”

“You’re not proud to be an American. Right now your colors are running. My colors don’t, dude.”

In a 2017 episode of his podcast, Shane Gillis complained about the comedian Hasan Minhaj’s special Homecoming King: “It was a fucking Indian dude, Pakistani pretending to be a Black guy.”

“Do your fucking Bollywood dance,” Shane Gillis continued, affecting an Indian accent: “Be a slumdog. Be a slumdog millionaire. We don’t need you to be Drake.”

Later in that episode, Shane Gillis complained about second-generation immigrant comedians like Aparna Nancherla and Kumail Nanjiani, the latter of whom is a first-generation immigrant: “‘My parents are from Pakistan,’” he said in a crude accent. “You’re not proud to be an American. Right now your colors are running. My colors don’t, dude.”

Shane Gillis once described an argument with a woman over Israel and Palestine: “I was like, you’re pro-Palestinian?” he asked her. “And she was like, ‘Yeah? Who isn’t?’ And I was like, ‘America? And everyone?’”

“I hit her with the fucking—that’s my shit, dude, I have my facts to back that up,” Shane Gillis said. “They’re like, ‘They’ve been there for a thousand years before the Israeli settlement.’ It’s like, they weren’t even a country, ever. So shut the fuck up.”

“It’s just funny to me that the liberal cause is now pro-Palestine,” Shane Gillis said. “I wasn’t like, ‘Oh, I’m definitely pro-Israel,’ I was just like, ‘It’s weird to take a side in this.' It’s weird to be like—of course I’m not gonna say I’m pro-Israel like that. But I’m not gonna be like, get them the fuck out of there. I’m just out of that.”

“It’s funny that the feminists and liberals support Palestine,” Shane Gillis said in another episode. “Just Google Hamas and then be like, ‘We’re feminist and peaceful. We also support a terrorist organization.’ It’s fucking nuts.”

“They got that big umbrella of fucking, ‘White people suck,'” Shane Gillis said. “So now it’s like, whatever the issue is, you gotta side with that.”

“They’re fucking gay. A protest like that makes me love ICE. If I see a bunch of faggots in tents out front of ICE, I’m like, dude, ICE is killing it. ICE is the best.”

Shane Gillis once described an argument he had with a woman who didn’t understand his disgust with gay men having orgies during Pride. “If I went out and 10 different guys nutted in my butt, you would go, 'Hey, you have a problem,’” he told her. “And she was like, ‘No, that's fine. What do you care? They're using condoms. They're being safe.’ And I was like, ‘First of all, no. Trust me.’”

Shane Gillis once said of Lana and Lilly Wachowski: “I didn’t even know the fucking Matrix brothers transed.” 

Shane Gillis once said that psychotherapy for transgender service members is “made-up gobbledygook.” 

Shane Gillis once said of protestors demonstrating outside ICE’s Philadelphia headquarters: “They’re fucking gay. A protest like that makes me love ICE. If I see a bunch of faggots in tents out front of ICE, I’m like, dude, ICE is killing it. ICE is the best.”

Shane Gillis once reflected that he felt ideologically closer to Ann Coulter than to liberals on Facebook. “I’m fucking watching Gavin McInnes,” he added. “Like, ‘This guy is smart.’ That's where I’m at.”

In a 2018 episode of his old podcast A Fair One, on Compound Media, the network founded by racist shock jock Anthony Cumia, Shane Gillis said that he used to get drunk and watch videos of Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes debating people.

“I’ve watched Gavin McInnes videos and been like, ‘Hell yeah, dude,’” Shane Gillis continued. “He fucking crushes people. He crushes… Gavin McInnes destroys feminists. Just type that in.”

Shane Gillis was born in 1987.

In another segment of that podcast, Shane Gillis chanted: “White people, white people, white people, white people are the best.”

In another, Shane Gillis described a fellow comedian as “a kike-faced bitch.”

In another, Shane Gillis questioned the notion that some homophobes are closeted: “I hate Black people; I’m not Black," he said. "I hate Jews; not a fucking Jew bone in my body.”

In another, Shane Gillis used the n-word. 

After Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation to the Supreme Court, Shane Gillis said: “Kavanaugh is the best, dude.”

When Matt McCusker compared the rape allegations against Brett Kavanaugh to the rape allegations against Bill Clinton, Shane Gillis described the latter as “real rape allegations. Not just a high-school sleeper hold.”

“Dude, Donald Trump’s not gonna fucking get rid of abortion. What the fuck? Why are we doing this? It’s the same thing with ICE and abortion. Now I like Donald Trump. Now I’m like, fuck, dude, Trump’s the best.”

In 2025, Shane Gillis defended Trump’s tariffs on Chinese exports. “When I find out we're not even matching what other countries have already been doing to us. I don't understand how it can be bad,” he said. “How are we going to bring manufacturing back to this country if we can't financially incentivize anyone to do that?”

“We need to gain independence on manufacturing,” he continued. “We have to have it. Especially if they're gonna take Taiwan and they're going to take our precious chips and we got to make some fucking steel. We're gonna have to start making stuff here.”

Later that year, Shane Gillis claimed that Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, and Hillary Clinton manufactured the Russiagate scandal in order to falsely incriminate Donald Trump: “If you look into that one,” he said, “they really did that.”

Shane Gillis has said on multiple occasions that he hopes Donald Trump weathers the Epstein scandal. 

In one episode of his podcast, Shane Gillis said that Trump would get away with his Epstein association if he simply ignored the controversy.

In another, Shane Gillis speculated that Donald Trump is only on the Epstein list because he hung out with the staff on Little St. James.

In another, Shane Gillis proposed that the scandal would eventually be forgotten. “Trump continues to just do the best work of all time,” he said. “Never bring it up. This will pass. These fuckers will forget about it.”

In another, Shane Gillis suggested that Democrats might “weaponize” the Epstein investigation against Donald Trump, and further, that the Deep State might try to frame Trump by inserting his name in the Epstein files. 

In another, Shane Gillis suggested that the Epstein emails exonerated Trump: the ones that seemed incriminating, he said, dated to 2016 at the earliest, when Epstein realized he could gain political capital by disparaging the president.

Shane Gillis is friends with and has frequently opened for Louis CK, the serial sex predator.

Shane Gillis was among the first podcasters to host Louis CK after his exposure as a serial sex predator, welcoming him on four episodes in 2022. 

In 2025, Shane Gillis said of Marc Maron: “I got a nice little hit list. Anybody that trash Louie, I'm just like, not for me.”

“If I fucking tossed one into Caitlin, and she was like, ‘I’m getting an abortion,’ I’d be like, ‘I’m not gonna pay for that. I want that.’ I’m not gonna fucking kill a kid because I wanna do fucking open mics.”

Shane Gillis once complained about the “Salute to Abortions” sequence in The Break with Michelle Wolf. “She's like, ‘If you're anti-abortion, you're anti-women,’” he said. “Instantly I was just like, ‘I’m pro-life now. A hundred percent. Now I’m like, dude, don’t ever get an abortion, you sluts.’ Immediately I’m like, ‘Abortion is killing.’”

Shane Gillis took issue with Michelle Wolf’s claim that Donald Trump would overturn Roe v. Wade. “Dude, Donald Trump’s not gonna fucking get rid of abortion,” he said. “What the fuck? Why are we doing this? It’s the same thing with ICE and abortion. Now I like Donald Trump. Now I’m like, fuck, dude, Trump’s the best.”

When Matt McCusker, describing himself as pro-life, said he wouldn’t pay for a partner’s abortion, Shane Gillis agreed: “I wouldn’t fund it,” he said. “If I fucking tossed one into Caitlin, and she was like, ‘I’m getting an abortion,’ I’d be like, ‘I’m not gonna pay for that. I want that.’ I’m not gonna fucking kill a kid because I wanna do fucking open mics.”

“Every time I drink and we do this,” Shane Gillis told Matt McCusker of their podcast in 2017, “I wake up just, like, ‘Delete that fucking podcast right now.’”

That same year, Shane Gillis performed a crude impression of a Chinese person during a show in Philadelphia, offending a group of Asian women in the audience. 

“I like to open with a bad racist joke,” Shane Gillis told Matt McCusker the following night. “Make sure everyone knows I suck.”

Discussing the incident, Shane Gillis said he tones down his racism onstage compared to his podcast, pledging to McCusker that he would “stop making fun of Asians.”

In an episode the following year, Shane Gillis complained at length about Asian people and Asian food, using a crude accent and the slur “chink.”

In an episode of the podcast Legion of Skanks another year later, Shane Gillis used that slur repeatedly, directing it at Bernie Sanders and then Andrew Yang: “That Jew chink? Commie Jew chink? Next, please, next. Gimme your next candidate, Dems. Jew chink, next. Actually, they are running a Jew chink—Chang, dude.”

“I’m a comedian who pushes boundaries,” Shane Gillis said in a statement about his comedy after SNL fired him. “Sometimes I miss. I’m happy to apologize to anyone who’s actually offended by anything I’ve said.”

After SNL invited him to host in 2024, Shane Gillis told Joe Rogan: “That was the closest they can come to an admission of guilt. Which is what it was.” 

“They did the right thing,” Shane Gillis said. “They did the cool thing. Everybody there was cool.”