Dixie Chicks Singer Calls President Trump 'Mentally Ill and Elderly'
Just shut up and sing.
1.16.2018
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Is it even news anymore when someone in the entertainment biz lobs a social media insult at President Trump? It's as predictable as the sun coming up.
This time the courageous activist/entertainer is Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines, who called President Trump "mentally ill and elderly" on Instagram Sunday, according to Fox News.
"Listen, I think it’s unbelievable how people are badmouthing the President! It’s unacceptable," Maines wrote.
"This is our President! How dare you make fun of the mentally ill and elderly," she went on sarcastically. "Not to mention, he’s the President of our United States Of America! Unbelievable. Don’t you know we live in a democracy?! You can’t do that sort of thing. What are you thinking?!"
Hilarious. And by the way, why aren't the tolerant left, who are still enraged over the lie that candidate Donald Trump ridiculed a handicapped reporter, outraged at Maines' implied insult of the mentally ill? And at her ageism as well, suggesting the elderly are somehow less capable?
No one listens to Maines or the Dixie Chicks anymore, but you may remember them as the group that sparked controversy by apologizing to a London audience in 2003 for President George W. Bush and the invasion of Iraq. "Just so you know," Maines said at the time, "we’re on the good side with y’all. We do not want this war, this violence, and we’re ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas."
Fair enough. Texas was ashamed of the Dixie Chicks. And by the way, why are the virtuous left tolerating the racially-charged word "Dixie" in the band's name? Why haven't there been calls for the band to renounce that connection to Deep South racism?
Maines, now 43 and desperately trying to remain relevant, has since gone on to make other astute political statements, such as performing before a picture of then-candidate Trump with devil horns and a sinister goatee in June 2016.

Showbiz folk are so mature. In response to Maines, TruthRevolt thinks Laura Ingraham said it best in the title of her 2003 book: Shut Up and Sing.