Jack White has come out fighting after a Republican congressman took a shot at him on social media this week.
The Tennessee representative Tim Burchett likened the former White Stripes frontman to Wednesday Addams in a post on X yesterday (December 29). He was responding to an apparently AI-generated video that depicted White saying, “Don’t even think about listening to my music, you fascist”.
Burchett replied: “That cute little girl from the Addams Family got really ugly and angry”.
Earlier today (December 30), White hit back at Burchett on Instagram, drawing attention to the AI nature of the video in question and savagely criticising Burchett’s character.
“Can you believe that a U.S. congressman, that’s right, a CONGRESSMAN (from my state no less), a once hallowed and respected position in our society, would repost an AI generated video, containing a false comment that I never said and refuted (without researching that I might add) and like a 10 year old on a playground, add to it attempted insults to my physical appearance?” he wrote. “What kind of joke are we all living in now?”
That cute little girl from the Addams Family got really ugly and angry. https://t.co/94wbCWFu2w
— Tim Burchett (@timburchett) December 29, 2025
“All of trump’s lackeys and bootlicks like this elected official are cowards that would never talk this way to anybody like me or you in person,” he added. “Trump really lowered the bar when he brought his scourge to this government. Neither him nor his sycophantic congressmen and women manifest class or dignity, they all just regurgitate cheap, childish, grade school bullying points and fake christian(!) rhetoric.”
He continued: “It’s really sad how embarrassing our leadership has become, I so wish the average American conservative could have a conversation with any intelligent people in other countries around the world, just for one brief moment, and actually see just what a joke our government (and by proxy our country) has become. All down to giving power and a soapbox to low class playground bullies the likes of trump and Congressman burchett.”
White also said that Burchett and the MAGA “cult” are “too dug in” to realise what they are doing. “I’ve said it before and i’ll say it again, there will come a time in the future when none of these right wingers will admit to being a part of this cult from this time period. All the maga hats will be in landfills and actual intelligent and honorable leadership will take their place. Let us remember the highly educated and well spoken leaders like JFK, FDR, MLK, from America’s history, because when i look around now, I’m wondering if half of these so called representatives have ever actually read the constitution that they pledged an oath to.”
It is far from the first time that White has been outspoken about Donald Trump or his political followers – earlier this month, he criticised the president for his comments about Rob Reiner in the hours following his murder, calling him a “disgusting, vile, egomaniac loser child”.
Trump and White also traded insults in August, with White describing the Oval Office redesign as “vulgar, gold leafed and gaudy”, and the White House hitting back by calling the musician a “has-been loser”.