Jack White and the Trump administration continued to exchange insults this week after the former White Stripes singer called out the White House decor and the administration responded.

Rubio's announcement is the latest in a series of actions taken by White House officials to clamp down on foreign truckers and boost the American trucking industry at a time when truckers carry more than 70% of all goods shipped in the country.

President Trump hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders at the White House on Monday, an event the U.S. president called "a very good, early step" to possibly resolve the war in Ukraine.

Since the beginning of his second term, Trump has directed several major renovations at the White House. Trump redesigned the previously minimalist Oval Office, making some of the most significant changes to the room's appearance in modern presidential history, adding gold medallions, gold vermeil figurines, gold eagles, and gilded Rococo mirrors.

Rock star Jack White’s blistering critique of Donald Trump and the president’s blinged-out Oval Office makeover has sparked a furious response from the White House. Communications Director Steven Cheung lashed out after the White Stripes star described the Trump-era decor as “vulgar.”

As President Trump asks Republican-led states to redraw congressional maps, some Indiana conservatives are pushing back. “They should leave it alone,” one legislator said.

The musician described the Oval Office as a "vulgar, gold leafed and gaudy, professional wrestler's dressing room."

Claims that a White House official in charge of U.S. President Donald Trump's mandate to review exhibits within the Smithsonian Institution said, "You can't really talk about slavery honestly unless you also talk about hope and progress," circulated online in August 2025.