White House fires back after John Mellencamp mocks Trump's Gulf of America during concert
New York Post • • entertainment
Key Points:
- John Mellencamp mocked President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the "Gulf of Mexico" to the "Gulf of America" during a concert in Holmdel, New Jersey, calling the idea "stupid."
- The White House responded through spokesman Davis Ingle, dismissing Mellencamp and other Hollywood celebrities as "out-of-touch" and implying their opinions are irrelevant.
- Mellencamp made the comment while performing his 1983 hit "Pink Houses," a song often misunderstood as patriotic but actually critiquing the American dream and social inequalities.
- "Pink Houses" was inspired by a man Mellencamp saw outside a small pink house in Indiana, which led to the memorable chorus "Ain’t that America."
