Jack White exploded President Donald Trump on social networks, describing it as danger “not only for America, but the whole world and it is not an exaggeration”.
Earlier this week, White had published a photo of the Oval Office on Instagram, calling “disgusting” after Trump transformed it into a “vulgar professional wrestler cloakroom, in gold leaf”. The director of communications for the White House, Steven Cheung, replied in a statement to Daily Beast, calling him “Has-Been loser” who “passed as a real artist”.
White retaliated on Wednesday with a long message on the social media platform, declaring that he had found “funny” that he had to call the decoration of the White House – as opposed to “his Gestapo ice tactics” or “his attempt to insurre the coup d’etat and crowds” – to receive an answer.
“How much this administration could be mean and pathetic and thin?” He wrote. “‘Put for a real artist’ ‘? Thank you for giving me my engraving of tombstone! Well, here is my opinion, Trump pretended to be a human being.”
He called Cheung and the press secretary Karoline Leavitt “professional toadies” and discharged a scathing attack on Trump and his supporters.
“This orange grifter spent more money from taxpayers to cheat on golf than helping anyone in the country,” he said. “Improve. All. Hatred … Good for you, be proud of yourself, how Christian of all of you.
White marked Trump a “conman” and a “fascist low life”, ending his screed with a sharp conclusion: “And no, I am not a democrat either, I am a human being raised in Detroit, I am an artist who has his own companies like his own furniture shop and his recording label because he was 21 years old who has sense of the street.
His Instagram message should not surprise anyone who knows White’s previous relationships with Trump. In September 2024, he and his member of the White Stripes group, Meg White, filed a complaint against Trump, accusing him of “flagrant diversion” of their song “Seven Nation Army” after his deputy communications director used him in a video deleted since X showing Trump who came out of the melody.
