The White House is reacting to Natalie Maines’ recent criticism of President Donald Trump at The Chicks concert.
“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 spokesman Davis Ingle told Us on Thursday, October 15.
The statement comes after Maines, 52, kicked off The Chicks’ anniversary tour with bandmates Emily Strayer and Martie Maguire for Taking the Long Way in New York City this week.
During the show, which was attended by Billboard, a vintage video montage of political pundits and everyday folk freaking out over someone criticizing a sitting president played.
Maines, who was also outspoken in her criticism of former President George W. Bush, said she will “never” submit to the “shut up and sing” brigade.
“We thought that was the worst it could get,” she recalled of 2003. “Now I’d give George W. Bush a big wet kiss ‘cause now we’re ashamed the president of the United States is from the United States.”
Taking the Long Way came out 20 years ago after Maines criticized Bush, 80, for invading Iraq over claims that the country possessed weapons of mass destruction.
“We’re ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas,” Maines said at a London concert in March 2003.
As a result of her words, country radio stations stopped playing The Chicks’ hit singles and conservative media pundits slammed their remarks.
The controversy, however, inspired even bigger hits, including “Not Ready to Make Nice” and “Easy Silence.”
“To me, I was right from the beginning, because it’s my right as an American to speak up and question our president, have my point of view, have my opinion, question what I want to question and say what I want to say about our government,” Maines previously told Us in April 2013. “It’s very scary to me that people actually think we should just follow our leaders. If we can’t learn from our history, we’re nowhere.”
The Grammy winner continued, “My point I try to make about that is it’s not a thing I wanted to be right about. It’s not a good ‘I told ya so’ with all these people losing their lives. War is horrible.”
In May, Maines made headlines for calling out Trump’s policies during his second term in office. In an Instagram post, she called the commander in chief a “fugly slut” and warned fans that “our democracy is disappearing right before our eyes.”
