Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose feuded on Twitter with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Wednesday (May 6th). Rose started the beef by tweeting, “It’s official! Whatever anyone may have previously thought of Steve Mnuchin he’s officially an a****le.”
Mnuchin responded, “What have you done for the country lately?” followed by an emoji of the flag of Liberia. After being widely mocked by Twitter users, the tweet was then deleted and replaced with one bearing the same question and an American flag emoji.
Rose, catching the accidental use of the Liberian flag, hit back, “My bad I didn’t get we’re hoping 2 emulate Liberia’s economic model but on the real unlike this admin I’m not responsible for 70k+ deaths n’ unlike u I don’t hold a fed gov position of responsibility 2 the American people n’ go on TV tellin them 2 travel the US during a pandemic.”
It's not clear what set the singer off, but it seems likely that he was irked by Mnuchin's appearance on Fox Business earlier this week where the Secretary said, “This is a great time for people to explore America. A lot of people haven’t seen many parts of America.”
Rose has been an outspoken critic of the Trump administration on social media, and also recently criticized a decision by the sheriff of Orange County, California to not enforce beach closures that were mandated by the state's governor.
