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Jack White Gregory Shamus/Getty Images 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.”
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(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.”)
