{"id":566716,"date":"2026-03-28T14:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T14:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/566716\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T14:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T14:29:11","slug":"jack-white-slams-trumps-signature-on-u-s-dollars-amid-gas-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/566716\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack White Slams Trump&#8217;s Signature on U.S. Dollars Amid Gas Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump will be the first sitting U.S. president with a signature appearing on currency<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jack-white\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jack-white\" data-tag=\"jack-white\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jack White<\/a> has once again taken to social media to denounce President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/donald-trump\/\" id=\"auto-tag_donald-trump\" data-tag=\"donald-trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a> and his administration. On Friday, the musician criticized the U.S. Treasury Department\u2019s plans to put Trump\u2019s signature on all new U.S. paper currency. Traditionally, U.S. dollars feature only the signatures of the Treasury Secretary and the Treasurer, and this will mark the first time a sitting president\u2019s signature has appeared on paper notes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cOh how humble!\u201d White mockingly wrote in a lengthy Instagram post, before suggesting Trump use his<br \/>\u201csmall hands to sign into law that your oh so stern orange face appears on the front of the hundred dollar bill as well.\u201d White slammed the move in part because the announcement comes as everyday Americans struggle amid rising costs of living.\u00a0Trump\u2019s campaign against\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/iran\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Iran<\/a>, which launched Feb. 28,\u00a0has led to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/gas-prices-skyrocket-iran-war-trump-1235527435\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">skyrocketing gas prices<\/a>, which could lead to inflation and pile more economic pressure on Americans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cThe TSA agents are selling plasma to pay rent while he takes the day off, cheats at golf, and bombs other countries for fun. Gas prices are surging as a world wide crisis that HE caused rages in the Middle East,\u201d White pressed on. The singer-songwriter pointed out that in the meantime, Trump has managed to find time to tour Graceland, banter on Fox News, and sign into law his \u201cbloated, cocky signature on all U.S. currency.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cWouldn\u2019t it be funny if someone started a campaign to black magic marker line out his name every time you receive a new banknote?\u201d White continued. \u201cI think that\u2019s against the law to deface U.S. currency, so I would never suggest that becoming a nationwide campaign\u2026..but is everyone allowed to break the law when they feel like it or just donnie?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe guitarist has been a vocal critic of Trump. Last month, White <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/jack-white-reacts-trump-iran-attack-board-of-peace-1235523342\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">criticized<\/a> the president\u2019s declaration of war against Iran and his hypocritical stance on peace. \u201cBehold the leader of the \u2018Board of Peace,\u2019\u201d White wrote in a social media post at the time. \u201cFor the next war announcement donny, may I suggest having your feet up on the Resolute desk while eating a Big Mac in a velvet track suit?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump will be the first sitting U.S. president with a signature appearing on currency Jack White has once&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":566717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1376,43,52936,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-566716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-jack-white","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/566717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}