Jack White once again expressed his incredulity at those who literally idolize Donald Trump with a recent Instagram post about a new 22-foot golden statue of the president.
The 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.
White, who was raised Catholic and knows his Judeo-Christian theology pretty well, obviously picked up all that. While White’s invectives against the president have often been lengthy screeds, this one was a pretty short salvo, with the musician writing on Instagram: “The most frustrating part of modern American life is the attempt to make sense of people who don’t even CARE that they make no sense at all.”
(Burns, for his part, insisted on X that the statue was “not a golden calf,” adding, “We worship the Lord Jesus Christ and Him alone. This statue is not about worship. It is about honor.”)White’s criticism of the golden Trump statue comes just a few weeks after he criticized the president for comparing himself to Jesus in an infamous AI-generated image. “How can any so called Christian support him after this blasphemy?” White asked. “How 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?”
Outside his general dismay with the president, White has been busy with music, having recently performed at Coachella and popped up on Saturday Night Live. He’s set to spend most of this summer and fall on the road, with a short North American tour scheduled for July and a lengthier run launching Sept. 18 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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