Lady Gaga Claps Back at Trump Campaign's Attack on Her
Lady Gaga delivered an epic clap-back to a Trump campaign attack that labeled her an "anti-fracking activist," reports Billboard magazine.
Lady Gaga took to Twitter to call out Trump and rejoin, "SO HAPPY IM GLAD TO BE LIVING RENT FREE in your HEAD. #BidenHarris."
The slam at Lady Gaga was part of a Nov. 1 release written by Trump's director of communications, Tim Murtaugh. The release came in the wake of the Biden campaign's announcement that Lady Gaga would appear with Biden in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on the evening of Nov. 2, reports NDTV.
In the release, Murtaugh called Lady Gaga an "anti-fracking activist" because of comments the pop star had made in 2012. Murtaugh's comments sought to frame Lady Gaga's remarks as a "sharp stick in the eye for 600,000 Pennsylvanians who work in the fracking industry." The release tied Lady Gaga to the Biden campaign, saying, "Nothing exposes Biden's disdain for the forgotten working men & women of PA like campaigning with anti-fracking activist Lady Gaga."
After clapping back on Twitter Lady Gaga added: "What is a fracking? Keep your jobs PA."
Pennsylvania has emerged as a key state in the Nov. 3 presidential election. Polls indicate that Biden has a slight lead over Trump there.
The release from the Trump campaign carried echoes of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign remark, made at an Ohio town hall, that her plan to modernize the U.S. energy industry would "put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business." The Trump campaign seized on that remark to paint Clinton, and the Democratic party, as out of touch with working class Americans.
But in 2020, a similar buzz seemingly failed to materialize around the Trump campaign's attack on Lady Gaga and Biden. Social media users seemed to side with Lady Gaga and laugh at Murtaugh's attack.
"Yes, the first thing I think of when I think of Gaga is her views on fracking," one person commented, while another put in, ""That's Grammy award winning, anti-fracking activist Lady Gaga to you."
Cracked a third: "LOL. it's late in the game and someone is throwing some wild ass hail Marys,"
UJ newspaper The Independent explained that in fracking, "gas is extracted from the ground via the controversial practice of injecting water, sand and chemicals directly into rock at high pressure."
NDTV noted that thanks to the practice, America has become "the world's biggest oil and gas producer. "But its costs are high," the article added, noting that "the drilling triggers earthquakes, while research links its air emissions and water contamination to myriad health problems." Fracking also contributes to global warming, the article said.
Lady Gaga may have attracted considerably more attention with a "get out the vote" PSA, released Oct. 29, in which she re-visited some of her iconic fashion statements, including the famed "meat dress" she first wore in 2010.