Jack White has issued a pointy rebuke to Tim Burchett after the Tennessee congressman posted an AI-generated video of the rocker on social media.
The video featured a faux model of White — dressed as the true White did throughout his Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame induction earlier this yr — declaring, “Do not even take into consideration listening to my music, you fascist.” Within the caption, Burchett added his personal shot, saying: “That cute little woman from the Addams Household received actually ugly and indignant.”
The clip continues a false narrative that White “forbids” any Donald Trump supporters from attending his concert events — one thing the singer has beforehand denied.
Jack White Calls Congressman Tim Burchett ‘Embarrassing’
In a publish to his Instagram account, White addressed the Burchett’s AI generated video.
“Are you able to consider {that a} U.S. congressman, that is proper, a CONGRESSMAN (from my state no much less), a as soon as hallowed and revered place in our society, would repost an AI generated video, containing a false remark that I by no means mentioned and refuted (with out researching that I would add) and like a ten yr previous on a playground, add to it tried insults to my bodily look?” the rocker wrote. “What sort of joke are all of us dwelling in now?”
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“The nice state of Tennessee deserves higher Mr. Burchett however you and your cult are too dug in and blinded to even understand it,” White continued. “Holding a bible in a single hand and a flag within the different whilst you stomp out our democracy daily within the service of 1 man’s ego in order that he can use taxpayer cash to obtain his faux peace prize and tear down the White Home brick by brick. Embarrassing.”
White has been a harsh critic of Trump and his supporters. He has referred to as the President a “grifter” and a “loser,” decried his redecorating of the oval workplace and slammed Trump’s notorious response to the demise of Rob Reiner as “gross” and “horrible.”
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