The White House responds to criticism of Donald Trump from Chicks' singer Natalie Maines

The White House has responded to the lead vocalist of The Chicks, Natalie Maines, after she posted a message on her Instagram this week, aimed at Donald Trump.

The Justice Department in the US recently announced a $1.8 billion fund for victims of lawfare and weaponisation. In the post, she accused him of destroying democracy and using taxpayer money to help defendants involved in the United States Capitol attack.

"Our democracy is disappearing right before our eyes", she said. "But don't worry about it. I'm sure posting selfies will fix everything".

White House spokesperson Davis Ingle dismissed Maines' criticism, saying, "Natalie Maines is a despicable nobody who clearly suffers from a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted her pea-sized brain".

"This nobody American stands by her post", responded Maines.

More than 90 Democrats in the House of Representatives filed a legal document to try to block the new fund, arguing that using a legal settlement to create such a large compensation scheme pushes the limits of executive authority.

"Trump deserves no credit for dropping this lawsuit. He's doing it to set up a $1.7 billion slush fund for right-wing political violence", said Oregan Senator Ron Wyden. "If Trump follows through, it will be the most brazen theft of taxpayer dollars by any president in history".

Maines and her band, The Chicks, are no strangers to political controversies.

Despite their late 1990s and early 2000s popularity, the group formerly known as the Dixie Chicks were virtually blacklisted in 2003, after Maines spoke out against then-US President George W. Bush just before the Iraq war.

While on tour in the UK, Maines told a London audience that The Chicks were "ashamed that the President is from Texas". As a result, country music radio turned its back on the group, and ticket sales decreased dramatically.

"You know, I joke today that I might actually make out with George Bush", said Maines in 2020.

"I don't rethink that I didn't want to go to war and that weapons of mass destruction were a lie, but yes, it would be a huge love fest if I saw George Bush right now because of where we're at with this current President".