Jack White isn’t buying the White House’s initial excuse that the racist meme depicting the Obamas as apes posted to Donald Trump’s Truth Social account was merely a parody of The Lion King. He also is not buying the White House’s second excuse that it was inadvertently posted by a staffer not named Donald Trump.
In his latest rebuke of Trump, White said the “post would basically get anyone, at any job fired immediately… except for arguably the most important position in the world,” and framed it as the latest in a string of egregious behavior he believes warrants Trump being arrested, impeached, removed from office via the 25th Amendment, indicted, and jailed. He also called for “new laws and regulations” that would close “dangerous loopholes” that rely on the assumption that a president will act with “dignity and decency.”
This is hardly the first time White has ripped Trump; in just the last few months, he tore into the president over his reaction to Rob Reiner’s death and again over a congratulatory press conference marking the first year of his second term.
Here are White’s full comments:
Jack White on Donald Trump’s racist meme about the Obamas:
“This post would basically get anyone, at any job, fired immediately…except for arguably the most important position in the world.
“That’s right, Trump is a racist, a rapist, a felon, a grifter (currently ordering the U.S. government to pay him $10 billion simply because no one will stop him), and a full-on dementia sufferer, and yet he has the power to send in Gestapo ICE soldiers to k*ll our citizens, and so much more dangerously, he has the nuclear codes and the ability to end humanity at any moment based on an egotistical whim.
“How is it possible we’ve given this evil man so much power? The two-party system, the Electoral College, the responsibility the internet has brought to humanity and its direct conflict with truth, and America’s obsession with celebrity, are all to blame, but the fact that we aren’t stopping it is…insanity.
“Arrest this man. Impeach this man. 25th Amendment this man. Indict this man. Jail this man.
“This longtime friend of p*dophile Epstein, who appears 40,000 times in the files. This demolisher of the White House, demolisher of the Constitution, demolisher of the Bill of Rights, this demolisher of America, full stop.
“It’s hard to believe the government does almost nothing about this lunacy and we all just have to sit back and watch as a people. And when he’s finally gone? we had better put into place new laws and regulations that don’t allow anyone to find dangerous loopholes based solely on the assumption that our President has some sort of dignity and decency.
“Abolish these loopholes. Abolish the Electoral College. And if we had any sense, we would abolish the two-party system (that George Washington advised us never to have) that got us here in the first place and has failed not only Americans, but everyone else in the world who is currently suffering from our policies and the whims of this sick, deranged man who I will state again, has his tiny, bruised fingers on the nuclear launch button.”
