Jack White's Record Label Burns GOP Nominee with ‘Icky Trump’ Shirts

Karma can burn, and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump may have underestimated how much heat he would take when he borrowed The White Stripes’ “Seven Nation Army” for a campaign video.

Jack White, lead singer and guitarist for the duo and founder of Third Man Records, launched in Detroit 15 years ago, is getting some sweet payback with “Icky Trump” T-shirts that play on The White Stripes’ final song and Grammy-winning album, “Icky Thump.”

Verse on the back of the unisex tee takes issue with the New York businessman, real estate mogul and reality TV star’s charged rhetoric:

White Americans? What?
Nothing better to do?
Why don't you kick yourself out?
You're an immigrant too.
Who's using who?
What should we do?
Well, you can't be a pimp
And a prostitute too.

As previously noted: Burn.

In a statement posted on The White Stripes' Facebook page, White’s label said Trump’s use of the song is illegal and any association with the candidate is disgusting.

The shirts are available on the Third Man Records website.

The White Stripes — Jack White and Meg White — started as a Detroit-based garage band in 1997, publicly claiming to be brother and sister, but in fact man and wife. They divorced after a four-year marriage in 2000, before their meteoric rise to stardom with a string of Grammy Award-winning albums, including 2007’s “Icky Thump.”

Jack White started Third Man Records in Detroit in 2001, then expanded seven years later to Nashville, where the label maintains its offices and a distribution center, a photo studio and the world’s only live venue with direct-to-acetate recording capabilities.

Feature image of Donald Trump by Gage Skidmore via Flickr Commons