{"id":269080,"date":"2026-05-13T06:38:22","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T06:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/269080\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T06:38:22","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T06:38:22","slug":"jack-white-slams-donald-trumps-new-golden-statue-in-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/269080\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack White Slams Donald Trump&#8217;s New Golden Statue in Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The often profuse musician could only muster a sentence when discussing how evangelical Christian leaders gathered to unveil the statue at a Trump golf course in Miami<\/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> once again expressed his incredulity at those who literally idolize <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> with a recent Instagram post about a new 22-foot golden statue of the president.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe statue was recently dedicated at the Trump National Doral Golf Club in Miami, with evangelical pastor Mark Burns leading the proceedings. Like many things in Trumpworld, the event was comically rich with irony and hypocrisy, what with all the Bible says about worshiping false idols and that whole little story about the golden calf.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWhite, who was raised Catholic and knows his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/jack-white-and-stephen-colbert-compete-in-a-catholic-throwdown-48332\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Judeo-Christian theology<\/a> pretty well, obviously picked up all that. While White\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/jack-white-reacts-trump-iran-attack-board-of-peace-1235523342\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">invectives<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/jack-white-donald-trump-oval-office-1235409948\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">against the<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/jack-white-mocks-trump-davos-speech-accomplishments-1235502814\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">president<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/jack-white-slams-donald-trump-reaction-rob-reiner-death-1235484285\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">have often been<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/trump-signature-us-dollars-jack-white-1235538509\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lengthy screeds<\/a>, this one was a pretty short salvo, with the musician writing on Instagram: \u201cThe most frustrating part of modern American life is the attempt to make sense of people who don\u2019t even CARE that they make no sense at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t(Burns, for his part, insisted on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/pastormarkburns\/status\/2052237132454912267?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">X<\/a> that the statue was \u201cnot a golden calf,\u201d adding, \u201cWe worship the Lord Jesus Christ and Him alone. This statue is not about worship. It is about honor.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWhite\u2019s criticism of the golden Trump statue comes just a few weeks after he\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/jack-white-donald-trump-christian-support-jesus-pope-1235546491\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">criticized the president<\/a>\u00a0for comparing himself to Jesus in an infamous AI-generated image. \u201cHow can any so called Christian support him after this blasphemy?\u201d White asked. \u201cHow could any Catholic support him after he attacks the character of their Pope multiple times? How did so many millions of people fall for this conman?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tOutside his general dismay with the president, White has been busy with music, having recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/coachella-2026-best-moments-performances-weekend-one-1235545575\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">performed at Coachella<\/a> and popped up on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/snl-watch-jack-white-perform-derecho-demonico-g-o-d-the-broken-ribs-1235541948\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Saturday Night Live<\/a>. He\u2019s set to spend most of this summer and fall <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/product-recommendations\/tickets\/jack-white-2026-tour-tickets-buy-online-1235551566\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on the road<\/a>, with a short North American tour scheduled for July and a lengthier run launching Sept. 18 in Cincinnati, Ohio.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The often profuse musician could only muster a sentence when discussing how evangelical Christian leaders gathered to unveil&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[409,115546,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-269080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-donald-trump","tag-jack-white","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}