George Lopez made the comment in question on January 5, 2020, in response to an Instagram post by @chicanoworldstar. The post falsely claimed that Iranian authorities had placed an $80 million bounty on Donald Trump's head during the televised funeral of General Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in a U.S. airstrike on January 3, 2020. Lopez's comment, "We'll do it for half," was posted that day and sparked significant backlash, though it has since been misrepresented as a tweet or a more recent statement in some circulating narratives. The original Instagram post is no longer available, but the comment's timing is well-documented from early January 2020.