Jack White condemns “embarrassing” Republican for sharing deepfake AI video: “What kind of joke are we all living in now?”
Jack White has condemned Republican congressman Tim Burchett for sharing a deepfake AI video of him on social media.
Burchett, who has been in office in the House of Representatives since 2019, shared the video on the Elon Musk-owned social media platform X on December 29th.
In the clearly doctored video, originally posted by an account with the username MAGAResponse, a deepfake version of White, with a completely different voice, can be heard saying, “Don’t even think about listening to my music, you fascists.”
Burchett quoted the post to his 423,000 followers along with the caption, “That cute little girl from the Addams Family got really ugly and angry.”
In response, White took to Instagram to write: “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? What kind of joke are we all living in now?”
He then made a wider point regarding the Trump administration, stating his “lackeys and bootlicks like this elected official are cowards that would never talk this way to anybody like me or you in person.”
The White Stripes frontman went on to write that Trump “really lowered the bar when he brought his scourge to this government” and “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 added, “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.”
White, who lives in Tennessee, described Burchett and Trump as “low class playground bullies”, before stating, “The great state of Tennessee deserves better Mr. Burchett but you and your cult are too dug in and blinded to even realize it.”
His statement added, “Holding a bible in one hand and a flag in the other while you stomp out our democracy day by day in the service of one man’s ego so that he can use taxpayer money to receive his fake peace prize and tear down the White House brick by brick. Embarrassing.”
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee then shared his belief that “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” and “all the MAGA hats will be in landfills and actual intelligent and honorable leadership will take their place.”
White concluded by writing, “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.”
White has been one of the most vocal critics of the Trump administration in the music industry, including recently condemning the president for his disturbing comments following the tragic death of Rob Reiner earlier this month.
In August, White labelled Trump an “orange grifter“, “an embarrassment to American history”, and also alleged that he has made “obvious attempts at distraction about being a close personal friend of Jeffrey Epstein and his inclusion in the Epstein files”.
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