{"id":13094,"date":"2026-08-16T14:30:32","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T14:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/realnewsz13.store\/?p=13094"},"modified":"2026-08-16T14:30:32","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T14:30:32","slug":"%f0%9f%92%95%f0%9f%92%95%f0%9f%92%95%f0%9f%92%95white-house-fires-back-after-john-mellencamp-mocks-trumps-gulf-of-america-during-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/realnewsz13.store\/?p=13094","title":{"rendered":"\ud83d\udc95\ud83d\udc95\ud83d\udc95\ud83d\udc95White House fires back after John Mellencamp mocks Trump\u2019s Gulf of America during concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"image-link\" href=\"https:\/\/leapnews.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-hitmag-featured size-hitmag-featured wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/leapnews.online\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3-6-735x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"735\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h1 class=\"headline headline--single-fallback\">White House fires back after John Mellencamp mocks Trump\u2019s Gulf of America during concert<\/h1>\n<p>The White House\u00a0is hitting back after John Mellencamp took direct shots at President Donald Trump\u2019s Gulf of America.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-1\"><\/div>\n<p>Mellencamp paused his Saturday night show Holmdel, N.J. to mock Trump\u2019s executive order to rename the \u201cGulf of Mexico\u201d to \u201cGulf of America.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"connatix-outstream-video\"><\/div>\n<p>On Monday, Davis Ingle, WH Spokesman, shared a statement with Fox News Digital. \u201cNobody in their right mind cares what out-of-touch, woke Hollywood celebrities have to say,\u201d Ingle said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-2\"><\/div>\n<p>As part of his \u201cDancing Words\u201d Tour, Mellencamp was singing the first few verses of his hit \u201cPink Houses,\u201d before he addressed the crowd directly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, there\u2019s people and more people\/ What do they know, know, know?\/ Go to work in some high rise\/ And vacation down at the Gulf of Mexico,\u201d the rock icon sang before adding, \u201cWait a minute,\u201d according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/videos\/entertainment\/music\/2026\/07\/27\/watch-john-mellencamp-gulf-of-america\/91066861007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">USA Today.<\/a><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><button class=\"button button--modal-trigger\" aria-label=\"Open the image in a modal.\" data-modal-image=\"40107930\"><\/button><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-40107930\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/07\/john-mellencamp-performs-acrisure-amphitheater-134123673.jpg?w=1024\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 826px) 100vw, 826px\" 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class=\"credit\">Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>While Mellencamp\u2019s band kept playing, the musician said sarcastically, \u201cThe Gulf of Mexico? Is that right? It\u2019s not the Gulf of America? What a stupid f\u2013\u2014-g idea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mellencamp then picked right back up and finished performing \u201cPink Houses.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Released in 1983, Mellencamp\u2019s \u201cPink Houses\u201d became one of his signature hits, reaching No. 8 on the\u00a0Billboard Hot 100.<\/p>\n<p>While many listeners initially embraced it as a patriotic anthem, Mellencamp has said the song is actually a sharp commentary on the American dream, exploring themes of class, inequality and the gap between ideals and reality.<\/p>\n<div id=\"bx-campaign-948782\" class=\"bxc bx-base bx-custom bx-active-step-1 bx-campaign-948782 bx-width-default bx-type-agilityzone bx-has-close-x-1 bx-deployment-infeed bx-impress\" aria-hidden=\"false\" data-ssp=\"index\">\n<div class=\"bx-slab\">\n<div class=\"bx-align\">\n<div id=\"bx-creative-948782\" class=\"bx-creative bx-creative-948782\">\n<div class=\"bx-wrap\">\n<div id=\"bx-step-948782-1\" class=\"bx-step bx-step-1 bx-active-step bx-step-O5QSDQ6 bx-step-948782-1 bx-tail-placement-hidden\" data-close-placement=\"\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The song was inspired by Mellencamp spotting a man sitting outside a small pink house along an Indiana highway, an image that sparked the iconic chorus, \u201cAin\u2019t that America.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House fires back after John Mellencamp mocks Trump\u2019s Gulf of America during concert The White House\u00a0is hitting back after John Mellencamp took direct shots at President Donald Trump\u2019s Gulf &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/realnewsz13.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/realnewsz13.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/realnewsz13.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realnewsz13.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realnewsz13.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/realnewsz13.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13095,"href":"https:\/\/realnewsz13.store\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13094\/revisions\/13095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/realnewsz13.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realnewsz13.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/realnewsz13.store\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}