The White Home just lately clapped again at musician Jack White after his criticism of President Donald Trump’s redesign of the Oval Workplace through Newsweek.
On Monday, the previous frontman of The White Stripes described the workplace as a “vulgar, gold leafed and gaudy, skilled wrestler’s dressing room,” and an “embarrassment to American historical past.”
In March, Trump renovated the Oval Workplace, incorporating gold trim, massive frames, gilded mirrors, gold eagles, and equipment that featured his title.
White has beforehand criticized Trump and initiated authorized motion in opposition to his 2024 marketing campaign for utilizing a White Stripes track in a video. Nonetheless, the band later selected to drop the lawsuit.
In different social media posts, White has additionally known as Trump “a recognized apparent fascist” and a “wannabe dictator.”
On Monday, White dropped a photograph on Instagram of Trump talking with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, captioned:
“Have a look at how disgusting trump has remodeled the historic White Home. It’s now a vulgar, gold leafed and gaudy, skilled wrestler’s dressing room. Can’t look forward to the UFC match on the entrance garden too, he’s virtually totally achieved the film ‘Idiocracy’. Have a look at his disgusting style, would you even purchase a used automobile from this conman, not to mention give him the nuclear codes? A gold plated trump bible would look excellent up on that mantle with a pair of trump sneakers on both aspect wouldn’t it? What a humiliation to American historical past.”
White added: “Additionally pictured on this {photograph}, a REAL chief of a nation in a black go well with,” referring to Zelensky.
Responding to White’s feedback, White Home Communications Director Steven Cheung instructed The Every day Beast: “Jack White is a washed up, has-been loser posting drivel on social media as a result of he clearly has ample time on his palms as a consequence of his stalled profession.”
He added: “It’s obvious he’s been masquerading as an actual artist, as a result of he fails to understand, and fairly frankly disrespects, the splendor and significance of the Oval Workplace within ‘The Individuals’s Home.’”
