White House Obliterates ‘Woke’ Singer Natalie Maines
The White House doesn’t do subtle — and The Chicks frontwoman Natalie Maines just learned that the hard way. After the singer took aim at President Donald Trump from a New York stage, the administration fired back with one of the most blistering official rebukes of a celebrity in recent memory.
“Natalie Maines is a despicable nobody who clearly suffers from a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has completely rotted her peanut-sized brain,” White House spokesperson Davis Ingle told Fox News Digital and Entertainment Weekly.
What She Said on Stage
The confrontation ignited on October 12 at Manhattan’s Beacon Theatre, where The Chicks kicked off their “Taking the Long Way” 20th anniversary tour with bandmates Emily Strayer and Martie Maguire.
Maines told the crowd she would “never” submit to the “shut up and sing” brigade — a callback to the 2003 firestorm that once got the band blacklisted from country radio. Then she went further.
“We thought that was the worst it could get,” she said of the Bush-era controversy. “Now I’d give [George W.] Bush a big wet kiss.”
Her punchline: “‘Cause now we’re ashamed the president of the United States is from the United States.”
Déjà Vu From 2003
Maines was deliberately echoing her infamous March 2003 remark in London, when she told the audience, “Just so you know, we do not want this war, this violence, and we’re ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas” — a jab at President George W. Bush over the Iraq War.
The backlash then was seismic: country radio dropped their hit singles, stations organized boycotts, concerts drew protests, and death threats poured in heavy enough to require FBI intervention.
More than two decades later, Maines is leaning into the legacy. The Chicks now sell T-shirts bearing her new line — “We’re ashamed the president of the United States is from the United States” — and she told The New York Times it’s already their second-best-selling shirt behind the tour merch. “I’m fine with it. Still stand behind it,” she said of the original controversy.
The Fallout
Maines turned 52 on October 14 — the same day the White House statement went out. Her representatives did not respond to requests for comment.
Some fans cheered the onstage jab; others grumbled about politics at a concert. “Spent $1500 for a ticket to see a concert with wonderful music,” one fan wrote on Instagram. “Did not want to hear politics.”
The White House, for its part, made clear it has no interest in debating the substance — only in demolishing the messenger.
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