Trending badgeTrendingPosted 1 hour agoSubscribe to BuzzFeed Daily NewsletterCaret DownJack White Fired Back At The White House Calling Him "Washed Up" After He Criticized Trump's "Gaudy" Gold Oval Office"How petty and pathetic and thin-skinned could this administration get?"by Mychal ThompsonBuzzFeed StaffFacebookPinterestLinkHot Topic🔥 Full coverage and conversation on Politics Jack White and the Trump administration are beefing - again. Taylor Hill / Getty Images, Bloomberg / Bloomberg via Getty Images Donald Trump recently remodeled the Oval Office, covering everything in those gold medallion-thingys, little gold cherub babies, basically gold everything, and people are not happy about it. Bloomberg / Bloomberg via Getty Images Jack, a 12-time Grammy Award-winning musician, is one of those people. He can't stand Trump's "vulgar" transformation of the Oval Office. Carl De Souza / Getty Images "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," Jack wrote in an Aug. 19 Instagram post. "Can't wait for the UFC match on the front lawn too, he's almost fully achieved the movie 'Idiocracy.'" ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP via Getty Images BuzzFeed TrendingHot TopicLet's chat about all things PoliticsSee our Politics Discussions The guitarist, who released six studio albums as a solo artist after The White Stripes disbanded, pointed out the president's "disgusting taste," suggesting he's a "conman" who shouldn't be trusted with 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?" Jack continued. "What an embarrassment to American history." "Also pictured in this photograph, a REAL leader of a nation in a black suit," he finished, referencing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky sitting beside Trump. Bloomberg / Bloomberg via Getty Images The White House caught wind of Jack's viral insult and responded. Steven Cheung, the White House communications director, reportedly told the Daily Beast that Jack 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." Bloomberg / Bloomberg via Getty Images Defending the president's "gaudy" gold room, Steven apparently said, "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.'"' Jack, set to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year with Meg White (the other half of the White Stripes), had a lengthy response to the White House's rather brutal rebuttal in an Aug. 20 Instagram post. Jon Super / Redferns "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.," he wrote before listing a laundry list of allegations against Trump and his administration including "ignorance of dying children in Sudan, Gaza, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo," and "constant lying to the American people." @officialjackwhite / instagram.com "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?" Jack said. Daniel Knighton / Getty Images In response to the claim Jack is "masquerading as a real artist" he said, "trump is masquerading as a human being." @officialjackwhite / instagram.com "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," Jack continued before criticizing Trump's supporters. In the caption of the Instagram post alongside several jarring photos of recent Trump-related news, Jack wrote, "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," he continued.
Before quoting Theodore Roosevelt, Jack claimed that Trump was dangerous to the world and democracy. "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." Jack's response received praise from some celebrities. Comedian and actor Patton Oswalt wrote, "You hit a fuckin' nerve 'cuz they don't put out statements this length for earthquakes and shootings. Keep going." @officialjackwhite / instagram.com Actor Be