White House fires back after John Mellencamp mocks Trump's Gulf of America during concert
•The White House responded to John Mellencamp's mockery of Trump's Gulf of America during a concert.
•Mellencamp sarcastically criticized the idea of renaming the Gulf of Mexico while performing his song "Pink Houses."
•WH Spokesman Davis Ingle dismissed the comments as irrelevant from "out-of-touch, woke Hollywood celebrities."
المصدر: Fox News | Source: Fox NewsThe White House is hitting back after John Mellencamp took direct shots at President Donald Trump's Gulf of America.
Mellencamp paused his Saturday night show Holmdel, N.J. to mock Trump's executive order to rename the "Gulf of Mexico" to "Gulf of America."
On Monday, Davis Ingle, WH Spokesman, shared a statement with Fox News Digital. "Nobody in their right mind cares what out-of-touch, woke Hollywood celebrities have to say," Ingle said.
As part of his "Dancing Words" Tour, Mellencamp was singing the first few verses of his hit "Pink Houses," before he addressed the crowd directly.
"Well, there’s people and more people/ What do they know, know, know?/ Go to work in some high rise/ And vacation down at the Gulf of Mexico," the rock icon sang before adding, "Wait a minute," according to USA Today.
While Mellencamp's band kept playing, the musician said sarcastically, "The Gulf of Mexico? Is that right? It’s not the Gulf of America? What a stupid f–----g idea."
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Mellencamp then picked right back up and finished performing "Pink Houses."
Released in 1983, Mellencamp's "Pink Houses" became one of his signature hits, reaching No. 8 on the Billboard Hot 100.
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While many listeners initially embraced it as a patriotic anthem, Mellencamp has said the song is actually a sharp commentary on the American dream, exploring themes of class, inequality and the gap between ideals and reality.
The song was inspired by Mellencamp spotting a man sitting outside a small pink house along an Indiana highway, an image that sparked the iconic chorus, "Ain't that America."
→The White House responded to John Mellencamp's mockery of Trump's Gulf of America during a concert.
→Mellencamp sarcastically criticized the idea of renaming the Gulf of Mexico while performing his song "Pink Houses."
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