U.S. Secret Service Is Taking Madonna’s “Blow Up the White House” Comment Seriously
Donald Trump’s election as President of the United Stats may have shocked the media, but Madonna’s recent comments should have shocked even more. As a side note in the January 21 anti-Trump “Women’s March on Washington,” Madonna nonchalantly said she wanted to “blow up the White House.” (Source: “Madonna: My Comment About ‘Blowing Up White House’ Was ‘Taken Out Of Context’,” The Daily Caller, January 23, 2017.)
The Secret Service is now investigating Madonna. (Source: “Madonna under investigation by the US Secret Service,” Channel24, January 23, 2017.)
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Whether Madonna gets prosecuted will be decided by the Offices of the United States Attorneys. But former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says Madonna “ought to be arrested” over the Women’s March comment about blowing up the White House. (Source: “Madonna ‘Ought To Be Arrested,’ Says Newt Gingrich,” Rolling Stone, January 23, 2017.)
Donald Trump officially took up residence at the White House last Friday. His first military challenge apparently comes neither from a foreign power or ISIS; it comes from a Hollywood celebrity. The very same celebrity who promised sexual favors (also involving some kind of blowing) for those who voted for Hillary Clinton. (Source: “Madonna Promises Blow Jobs for Hillary Clinton Voters,” Snopes.com, October 19, 2016.)
Nobody should take Madonna at her word. The only sure aspect is that she thinks about blowing things—or blowing things up—a lot. But it’s pure hypocrisy when she tries to deflect the attention by claiming that the statements were taken out of context. Try telling that to the police or the FBI the next time you joke in public about blowing up a house of any color or variety.
Even the most die-hard anti-Trump protesters noted the irony of the contrast between the official message of the women’s march, “Love trumps hate,” and the message expressed by Madonna. The organizers insisted that the march or protest was all about peace and the fact that women don’t use violence to express their views. For a musician, Madonna was decidedly out of tune with the point of the women’s march.
Madonna is famous worldwide; just about everyone from New York, to Timbuktu, to Ouagadougou has heard about Madonna. She could use her celebrity status to deliver intelligent and coherent criticisms of Trump. That could at least engage Trump supporters and spark a rational debate. It’s better than banging on about Madonna’s thoughts of blowing up the White House.
Rather, Madonna delivered a militant speech, loaded with non-sequiturs and logical fallacies. Most of all, she was short on solutions, offering only vague incitations. “We have gone as low as we can go” was just about the smartest thing to come out of her mouth, but she proffered that philosophy at the Brooklyn Art Museum on January 19. (Source: “Madonna on Trump: ‘We have gone as low as we can go’,” Star Advertiser, January 19, 2017.)
