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The White House is hitting backmost aft John Mellencamp took nonstop shots astatine President Donald Trump's Gulf of America.
Mellencamp paused his Saturday nighttime show Holmdel, N.J. to mock Trump's executive bid to rename nan "Gulf of Mexico" to "Gulf of America."
On Monday, Davis Ingle, WH Spokesman, shared a connection pinch Fox News Digital. "Nobody successful their correct mind cares what out-of-touch, woke Hollywood celebrities person to say," Ingle said.
John Mellencamp blasted President Donald Trump's Gulf of America sanction alteration during a caller show. (Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for The Recording Academy)
As portion of his "Dancing Words" Tour, Mellencamp was singing nan first fewer verses of his deed "Pink Houses," earlier he addressed nan crowd directly.
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"Well, there’s group and much people/ What do they know, know, know?/ Go to activity successful immoderate precocious rise/ And picnic down astatine nan Gulf of Mexico," nan stone icon sang earlier adding, "Wait a minute," according to USA Today.
"Nobody successful their correct mind cares what out-of-touch, woke Hollywood celebrities person to say."
— Davis Ingle, WH SpokesmanWhile Mellencamp's set kept playing, nan musician said sarcastically, "The Gulf of Mexico? Is that right? It’s not nan Gulf of America? What a stupid f–----g idea."
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President Donald Trump held a "Gulf of America" chapeau connected nan South Lawn of nan White House successful April 2025. (Yuri Gripas/Abaca/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Mellencamp past picked correct backmost up and vanished performing "Pink Houses."
Released successful 1983, Mellencamp's "Pink Houses" became 1 of his signature hits, reaching No. 8 connected nan Billboard Hot 100.
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Mellencamp called nan determination to alteration nan sanction "a stupid f-----g idea." (Jason Kempin/Getty Images)
While galore listeners initially embraced it arsenic a patriotic anthem, Mellencamp has said nan opus is really a crisp commentary connected nan American dream, exploring themes of class, inequality and nan spread betwixt ideals and reality.
The opus was inspired by Mellencamp spotting a man sitting extracurricular a mini pinkish location on an Indiana highway, an image that sparked nan iconic chorus, "Ain't that America."
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Janelle Ash is an intermezo writer for Fox News Digital covering Hollywood, personage civilization and breaking intermezo news done exclusive reporting, interviews and in-depth storytelling.
