Jack White needled Donald Trump after it was announced that the president would be slapping his signature on U.S. banknotes.
The White Stripes frontman described Trump as a “manipulative, loophole finding, egomaniacal, conman” in a lengthy Instagram post on Friday.
“Oh how humble!” White wrote. “But why stop there donnie? Why don’t you use your small hands to sign into law that your oh so stern orange face appears on the front of the hundred dollar bill as well?”
For more than a century, currency has featured the names of the U.S. Treasury Secretary and the Treasurer. However, Trump will soon become the first sitting U.S. president to have his autograph on America’s money. According to The New York Times, Trump’s signature will appear alongside that of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. The name of the U.S. treasurer will be removed.
White didn’t let Trump’s enablers off the hook, either.
“You might as well, since Congress and the American people (and to an extent, the rest of the world) are all just letting you do whatever you want to anyways, so go ahead! Invade Cuba next? Sure! Go ahead, nobody’s stopping you,” he wrote.
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White tried to put the decision to add Trump’s signature to the nation’s currency in context.
“Gas prices are surging as a world wide crisis that HE caused rages in the Middle East; it’s the perfect time to joke on fox “news”, visit Graceland, and sign into law to have your bloated, cocky signature on all U.S. currency! Congrats donnie! You deserve it!” White wrote.
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White ended his post with a cutting, if not legally questionable, protest idea.
“Wouldn’t it be funny if someone started a campaign to black magic marker line out his name every time you receive a new banknote? I think that’s against the law to deface U.S. currency, so I would never suggest that becoming a nationwide campaign,” he wrote, “but is everyone allowed to break the law when they feel like it or just donnie?”
A stalwart Trump critic, White highlighted the president’s hypocrisy in a post about the Iran war earlier this month, writing: “Behold the leader of the ‘Board of Peace.’”
Trump has been haunted by the puny paw allegations for decades after Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter dubbed him a “short-fingered vulgarian” back in the 1980s. The dig reportedly got under Trump’s skin so badly that for years, Carter regularly received mail containing photos of Trump with his hands circled in gold Sharpie.
