• A representative for the White House called Jack White a “washed-up, has-been loser” after he criticized the Oval Office’s decor.
  • White responded by saying he believes President Trump is “masquerading as a human being.”
  • White also opined that Trump is “masquerading as a Christian, as a leader, as a person with actual empathy.”

Jack White has strong words for the Trump administration.

The former White Stripes frontman posted a lengthy statement in an Instagram gallery condemning Donald Trump‘s policies and past on Wednesday. The post came in response to White House communications director Steven Cheung calling him a “washed-up, has-been loser” in a statement to The Daily Beast following White’s shorter criticism of the president on Tuesday.

Jack White at ‘SNL50: The Homecoming Concert’ in New York City on Feb. 14, 2025.

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“Here’s my opinion, trump is masquerading as a human being,” the “Icky Thump” musician wrote. “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.”

Entertainment Weekly has reached out to the White House for further comment.

White previously called out the Oval Office’s new gold decor, which was prominently visible during Trump’s meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

“Look at how disgusting trump has transformed the historic White House,” the singer wrote on Instagram Tuesday. “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’.”

Cheung responded on the White House’s behalf in a comment to The Daily Beast.

“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,” he 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.'”

In Wednesday’s post, White responded to specific jabs from Cheung. “‘Masquerading as a real artist’? Thank you for giving me my tombstone engraving!” the musician wrote. “I have ‘ample time on (my) hands’? That orange grifter has spent more tax payer money cheating at golf than helping ANYONE in the country. Improve. Anything.”

Jack White in New York City on Aug. 20, 2024.

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This is far from the first time that White has criticized the president. The musician previously threatened Trump’s 2024 campaign for using the White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army” in a video.

“Don’t even think about using my music you fascists,” he wrote on Instagram at the time. “Law suit coming from my lawyers about this (to add to your 5 thousand others.)”

White also called out celebrities like Mark Wahlberg, Joe Rogan, Mel Gibson, and Guy Fieri for their participation in a 2023 meet-and-greet with Trump. “Anybody who ‘normalizes’ or treats this disgusting fascist, racist, con man, disgusting piece of s— Trump with any level of respect is ALSO disgusting in my book,” he opined on social media at the time.

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On Wednesday, White expressed his amusement at the fact that his Oval Office criticism marked the first time that the White House responded to his remarks despite his numerous other posts criticizing the president, including incidents when he called Trump a “Nazi,” a “racist,” and a “fascist.”

“It wasn’t me calling out any of that, it was the f—ing DECOR OF THE OVAL OFFICE remarks I made that got them to respond with insults,” White wrote. “How petty and pathetic and thin skinned could this administration get?”