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Jack White’s Short & Sweet Reaction to the 22-Foot Golden Trump Statue

The usually verbose musician offered a concise, one-sentence observation about the 22-foot golden Trump statue, unveiled by evangelical Christian leaders at a Miami golf course.

Rolling Stone·May 12, 2026·via Rolling Stone

Jack White’s Short & Sweet Reaction to the 22-Foot Golden Trump Statue

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Jack White Can Barely Find the Words for That 22-Foot Golden Trump Statue

The often profuse musician could only muster a sentence when discussing how evangelical Christian leaders gathered to unveil the statue at a Trump golf course in Miami

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May 12, 2026

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.”)