{"id":85640,"date":"2025-08-21T07:12:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T07:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/85640\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T07:12:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T07:12:06","slug":"jack-white-much-better-at-insulting-donald-trump-than-other-way-around","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/85640\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack White much better at insulting Donald Trump than other way around"},"content":{"rendered":"

For various reasons\u2014mostly rooted in the administration\u2019s own deliberately provocative, yet also highly thin-skinned behavior\u2014it\u2019s been easiest for us, lately, to think of Donald Trump\u2019s White House as a collection of very weak online posters: The kind who pick fights incessantly in order to look good, then get their lunches handed to them by people actually forged in the fires of internet \u201cdiscourse.\u201d We\u2019ve seen this in Trump And Co.\u2019s inability to avoid feeding South Park\u2018s brutal trolling of them<\/a>, and we\u2019re seeing it today, as the administration forgot one of the basic rules of internet survival: I.e., do not take a swing at people who are willing, ready, and able to go completely nuclear on you at the drop of a hat.<\/p>\n

This is per\u00a0Consequence<\/a>, reporting that rocker Jack White gleefully rose to the challenge this week after White House officials responded to his mockery of Trump\u2019s redecoration of the Oval Office, which has gone very heavy on \u201cStuff you put on top of a piece of cake to make dumb people pay 20 extra dollars to eat it.\u201d Bless his heart, White House communications director Steven Cheung tried to take a decent swing, telling\u00a0<\/a>The Daily Beast\u00a0that White was a \u201cwashed up, has-been loser posting drivel on social media because he clearly has ample time on his hands due to his stalled career.\u201d Which is a fine enough attack, even if White seems to be doing pretty well for himself via his Third Man Records label. White, for his part, took the insult as a \u201cbadge of honor,\u201d unleashing in return a multi-page, highly detailed attack on a man he calls a \u201ca 3 card monte dealer,\u201d \u201ca grifter,\u201d and \u201ca thief.\u201d<\/p>\n

White opens with his amusement at the fact that, of the many, many mean things he\u2019s said about Donald Trump since the man\u2019s public entrance into politics\u2014helpfully enumerated\u2014it was his \u201cHome Depot\u201d decorating skills that finally provoked a response. He then widened the scope, calling Trump a \u201clow life fascist,\u201d \u201cbankrupter of casinos,\u201d \u201cprofessional golf cheat,\u201d and more. It really is an object lesson in the joys of the disproportionate response, as White reminds any hypothetical Trump voters reading Jack White\u2019s Instagram that their commander-in-chief is largely interested in enriching no one but himself and his already-rich cronies. That includes attacks on the administration as a whole; we\u2019ll refrain from posting the full text of White\u2019s post\u2014you can read the whole thing here<\/a>\u2014but he does dump especial ire on those who have supported Trump\u2019s rise and continued holding of the reins of power.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s masquerading as a christian, as a leader, as a person with actual empathy. He\u2019s been masquerading as a businessman for decades as nothing he\u2019s involved in has prospered except by using other people\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

Jack White blesses fans with surprise EP, cheap concert tickets<\/a>Staff Picks: Solving a crime with a “ducktective” and spinning Jack White’s No Name\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n