Rock star Jack White’s blistering critique of Donald Trump and the president’s blinged-out Oval Office makeover has sparked a furious response from the White House.
Communications Director Steven Cheung lashed out after the White Stripes star described the Trump-era decor as “vulgar.”
“Jack White is a washed-up, has-been loser posting drivel on social media because he clearly has ample time on his hands due to his stalled career,” Cheung fumed about the 12-time Grammy winner to The Daily Beast.
“It’s apparent he’s been masquerading as a real artist, because he fails to appreciate, and quite frankly disrespects, the splendor and significance of the Oval Office inside of ‘The People’s House,’” Cheung added.
White provoked Cheung’s wrath after posting on Instagram a photo of Trump’s meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday.
In his caption, White blasted the Oval Office redesign as looking like “a professional wrestler’s dressing room.” In full, he wrote:
Look at how disgusting trump has transformed the historic White House. It’s now a vulgar, gold leafed and gaudy, professional wrestler’s dressing room. Can’t wait for the UFC match on the front lawn too, he’s almost fully achieved the movie ‘Idiocracy’. Look at his disgusting taste, would you even buy a used car from this conman, let alone give him the nuclear codes? A gold plated trump bible would look perfect up on that mantle with a pair of trump shoes on either side wouldn’t it? What an embarrassment to American history. Also pictured in this photograph, a REAL leader of a nation in a black suit.
White has not responded to Cheung’s slam.
Trump, who frequently attacks celebrities who criticize him, has remained silent on White’s comments and Cheung’s response.
The rocker has previously branded Trump “scum” and a “wannabe dictator,” and last year condemned the use of his band’s anthem “Seven Nation Army” in a pro-Trump video.