Jack White Vs The White House: 'How Petty And Pathetic And Thin Skinned Could This Administration Get?'
Jack White has issued a lengthy response after the White House Communications Director described him as a “washed-up, has-been loser.”
Jack White (Credit: David James Swanson)
Who would have thought that the President of the United States and his staff would have enough time to have beef with a rock star?
Apparently, Donald Trump’s Communications Director has some spare time to issue a furious response to Jack White after the latter shared some less-than-friendly comments about the President’s gold renovations in the Oval Office.
This isn’t the first time that White has clashed with Donald Trump. After the Trump campaign used the White Stripes song Seven Nation Army while running for President in 2016, the band quickly denounced Trump and started selling “Icky Trump” shirts, a play on their song Icky Thump.
In November 2022, Jack White left X (formerly known as Twitter) after Donald Trump was allowed back on the app. In August 2024, White threatened to sue the 2024 Donald Trump presidential campaign after Trump’s team once again used Seven Nation Army reportedly without permission. White also called Trump and his staff “fascists.”
A month later, Jack and Meg White reunited and filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the Trump campaign, which was dropped in November 2024.
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All of this history brings us to now. Earlier this week, Jack White shared his thoughts on the Oval Office décor, calling it an “embarrassment to American history” as well as choice adjectives including “vulgar, gold-leafed and gaudy,” and a “professional wrestler’s dressing room.”
White House Communications Director Steven Cheung responded, describing White as a “washed-up, has-been loser” who has been “masquerading as a real artist.”
Jack White has since issued a lengthy reply on social media, which has to be read in its entirety. He asked the question, “How petty and pathetic and thin-skinned could this administration get?” and said he’ll engrave the statement “masquerading as a real artist” on his tombstone. Read what he had to say below.
Listen, I’m an artist and not a politician so I’m in no need to give my answer or opinion on anything if I’m not inspired or compelled, but how funny that it wasn’t me calling out trump’s blatant fascist manipulation of government, his gestapo ICE tactics, his racist remarks about Latinos, Native Americans, etc. his ridiculous “wall” construction, his attacks on the disabled, his attempted coup and mob insurrection and destruction of the sacred halls of congress, his disparaging sexist and pedophilic remarks about women, his obvious attempts at distraction about being a close personal friend of Jeffrey Epstein and his inclusion in the Epstein files, his ignorance of the dying children in Sudan, Gaza, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, his lack of empathy for military veterans and those struggling with poverty, his attempts to dismantle healthcare, his obvious wimpy and pathetic kowtowing to the dictators Putin and Kim Jong Un, his nazi like rallies, his attempts to sell merchandise and products like Goya beans through the office of the President, his fake “gunshot to the ear” that he showed no medical records or photographs of, his constant, constant, constant lying to the American people, etc. etc. etc. No, it wasn’t me calling out any of that, it was the fucking DECOR OF THE OVAL OFFICE remarks I made that got them to respond with insults. How petty and pathetic and thin skinned could this administration get? “Masquerading as a real artist”? Thank you for giving me my tombstone engraving! Well here’s my opinion, trump is masquerading as a human being.
He’s masquerading as a christian, as a leader, as a person with actual empathy. He’s been masquerading as a businessman for decades as nothing he’s involved in has prospered except by using other people’s money to find loophole after loophole and grift after grift. His staff of professional liar toadies like Steven Cheung and Karoline Leavitt have been covering up and masking his fascism as patriotism and fomenting hatred and division in this country on a daily basis. And I have “ample time on (my) hands”? That orange grifter has spent more tax payer money cheating at golf than helping ANYONE in the country. Improve. Anything. There is no progress with him, only smoke and mirrors and tax breaks for the ultra wealthy. So maga folk, enjoy your concrete paving over of the rose garden, your 200 million dollar ballroom in the White House, and your gaudy ass gold spray painted trinkets from Home Depot, cause he ain’t spending any money on helping YOU unless you fit into his white supremascist country club rich idiot agenda. Wow, he hates who you hate….good for you, be proud of yourselves, how christian of you all.
The only way you can support this conman is because you are a victim of the 2 party system and you “defend your guy no matter what he does”. No intelligent person can defend this low life fascist. This bankrupter of casinos. This failed seller of trump steaks, trump vodka, trump water, etc. This man and his goon squad have failed upwards for decades and have fleeced the American people over and over. This professional golf cheat, this grifter who has hundreds of thousands of deaths from his inaction of the pandemic on his hands, this man that the majority of the country somehow were fooled into supporting and voting into office (through the flawed electoral college) and their love of reality television stars. Being insulted by the actual White House that this particular conman leads is a badge of honor to me, because anyone who trump supports and likes is a villain who gives nothing to their fellow man, only takes what can benefit themselves.
And no I’m not a Democrat either, I’m a human being raised in Detroit, I’m an artist who’s owned his own businesses like his own upholstery shop and recording label since he was 21 years old who has enough street sense to know when a 3 card monte dealer is a cheap grifter and a thief.
Jack White III.
He captioned the post, which he shared overnight:
I was raised to believe that we defeated fascism in World War II and that we would never allow it again in the world. I don't always state publicly my political opinions, and like anyone I don't always know all of the facts, but when it comes to this man and this administration I'm not going to be like one of the silent minority of 1930's Germany. This man is a danger to not just America but the entire world and that's not an exaggeration, he's dismantling democracy and endangering the planet on a daily basis, and we. all. know. it. -JW III...
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." - Theodore Roosevelt
Last year, Jack White dropped the surprise album, No Name, which arrived ahead of his hot-ticket show at Melbourne’s Corner Hotel - where, coincidentally, he wrote the iconic riff to Seven Nation Army. The Music’s Christopher Lewis got to see the gig, and here’s what he had to say about it.
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