White House Melts Down Over Rock Legend’s Trump Insult

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The White House has clapped back after a Grammy-winning rock legend mocked one of President Donald Trump’s most controversial rebrands, twice.

John Mellencamp ridiculed Trump’s renaming of the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America” during a show in Holmdel, New Jersey, on Saturday as part of his “Dancing Words” tour.

White House spokesman Davis Ingle responded with a statement to https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/white-house-fires-back-john-mellencamp-mocks-trumps-gulf-america-concert.amp" rel="" target="_self" title="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/white-house-fires-back-john-mellencamp-mocks-trumps-gulf-america-concert.amp">Fox News Digital on Monday, saying, “Nobody in their right mind cares what out-of-touch, woke Hollywood celebrities have to say.” Mellencamp lives in Indiana.

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