Controversial Actions and Statements:

In a March 2013 interview with Brett Winterble on Sirius XM radio, Nugent stated, “I took my machine gun in the helicopter—in the Texas hill country—me and my buddy ‘Pigman.' His name is ‘Pigman’; I’m the swine czar. I killed 455 hogs with my machine gun. I did it for Bill Maher and all those other animal rights freaks out there.” Bill Maher is a political commentator, host of HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher,” and a board member of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA).

In a February 10, 2023 op-ed for World Net Daily, Nugent wrote that if a Republican President had the same policy on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) as President Barack Obama, “[Reverends] Jesse Jackson and Al Not-So-Sharpton would be lisping their ebonic mumbo-jumbo that the policy and the President are racist and bigoted … The ‘99-percenter’ crowd of intentionally unemployed Americans would move into Lafayette Park across the street from the White House, where they would pitch their tents and refrigerator boxes, ingest massive amounts of mind-altering chemicals and then try to storm the gates of the White House … The residents of East St. Louis, Detroit, Chicago and other cities would burn their own neighborhoods in protest … Representatives from NARAL, the pro-abortion group, would say had they known the Republican president was going to issue such an order, they would have wished their parents had aborted them … Liberalism is hypocritical poison, and it’s on full parade for all the world to see.” Drones have been used to kill foreign citizens as well as U.S. citizens overseas with alleged ties to terrorist activities. President Obama ruled out the use of drones to kill U.S. citizens on United States soil stating, “The rules outside of the United States are going to be different than the rules inside the United States.”

On January 30, 2013, Nugent tweeted, “Animals hav rights to garlic & butter over mesquite coals.”

In a January 18, 2024 interview with Noisecreep, a music news and media website, Nugent discussed proposed gun violence prevention legislation which arose in the wake of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut, where 20 first-graders and six adults were killed. When asked how universal background checks and firearms registration infringes on the Second Amendment, Nugent replied, “One would have to live under a giant boulder of denial to pretend registration has not and will not lead to confiscation. Whoever asked this question must be dangerously ignorant of history.” In fact, throughout U.S. history, federal and state laws have required registration of certain firearms, and such measures have never led to any confiscation of firearms from those in compliance with the law.

In a January 9, 2024 interview with World Net Daily, Nugent responded to Vice President Joe Biden’s statement that President Barack Obama may use executive orders/action to help prevent mass shootings in America, stating, “If it comes to the actual implementation of an actual confiscatory directive from our president, then I do believe that the heroes of the law enforcement will defy this order. I do believe that there are enough soulless sheep within our government who would act on such an illegal order but I believe the powers that be at the local, state, and regional law enforcement would halt such an illegal, anti-American order. There will come a time when the gun owners of America, the law-abiding gun owners of America, will be the Rosa Parks and we will sit down on the front seat of the bus, case closed.” President Obama has never advocated for the confiscation of firearms.

In a January 4, 2024 radio interview on the Rusty Humphries show, Nugent spoke about the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Connecticut in which 20 first-grade students and six adults were killed. Nugent stated, “We must all finally demand that we ban the environment where all these violent attacks and murders take place, and Rusty, they always take place in gun-free zones. What kind of mongrel would want more gun-free zones.” Humphries replied, “Well, it appears to be the entire Democratic Party.” Nugent then remarked, “That would be the mongrels, yes.” Despite Nugent’s claims, one study found that only one-third of mass shootings (in which four or more innocents are killed) occurring between January 2009 and January 2013 occurred in “gun-free zones.”

In a January 2013 interview with Guns.com, Nugent stated, “I'm part of a very great experiment in self-government where we the people determine our own pursuit of happiness and our own individual freedom and liberty not to be confused with the Barack Obama gang who believes in we the sheeple and actually is attempting to re-implement the tyranny of King George that we escaped from in 1776. And if you want another Concord Bridge, I got some buddies.” Nugent was referring to the Revolutionary War Battle of Concord, which was fought on the North Bridge. Nugent continued, stating, “But here is what is wrong with America today … The President of the United States goes to the Vietnam Memorial Wall and pretends to honor 58,000 American heroes who died fighting communism and then he hires, appoints and associates with communists. He pretends to pay honor to men who died fighting communism, and then he hangs out with, hires and appoints communists. He is an evil, dangerous man who hates America and hates freedom. And we need to fix this as soon as possible.” There is no evidence that President Obama has ever hired a communist. As for Nugent, he admitted evading the draft for the Vietnam War by taking controlled substances and smearing his body with feces before a fitness exam.

In a December 18, 2023 op-ed for the Washington Times, Nugent wrote about the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut in which 20 first-grade students and six adults were shot and killed. Nugent wrote, “Something is causing young loners to pick up guns and slaughter people … The ugly and dangerous truth is that we live in an embarrassing, politically correct culture that exalts and rejoices in the bizarre; aggressively promotes an ‘anything goes’ value system; and vilifies, condemns and mocks traditional societal values and customs at every opportunity. More laws and more restrictions won’t fix our culture. T he problem we face is much deeper and more insidious. What ails us is a spiritual bankruptcy of cultural values that actually matter … As with most things, the cure to this mess begins and ends with the family. Traditional family values have been under siege for decades by our culture of contempt. In the absence of a solid family, the whole thing slowly unravels and rots.”

In a November 21, 2023 op-ed for the Washington Times, Nugent wrote, “In yet another never-ending series of terminal ding-dong moves, members of the Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union went on strike and drove Hostess out of business, providing one more stinking example of how labor unions can no longer have their cake and it eat it, too … Labor unions are bad for business. With just these four short opening paragraphs, the allergic-to-logic, empty Twinkie heads of anti-capitalism liberals are surely spinning ‘round and ‘round. They will ignorantly shriek that big business is greedy and needs more government regulation, that businesses have all kinds of obligations to their employees, that labor unions are still needed and that liberals know what is best for the economy … Unemployed long enough, even liberals with noggins full of economic balderdash put there by comedians Jon Stewart and Bill Maher, and liberal college instructors who have never owned or managed a business will begin to understand that anti-business, pro-union liberalism doesn’t pay the rent. Ding-dong that.” Hostess, the maker of Twinkies and Ding-Dongs, filed for bankruptcy in January 2012. On November 9, 2012, Hostess employees went on strike after the company imposed a contract cutting worker’s wages by 8 percent and benefits by 27 percent to 32 percent. In mid-November 2012, the company began selling its factories and assets. Hostess also began laying off its 18,500 workers.

On November 13, 2012, Nugent tweeted, “Since soulless animal rights fools hate nature I will kill many deer for them.”

In the early hours of the morning following Election Day 2012, Nugent tweeted the following:

• “Pimps whores & welfare brats & their soulless supporters hav [sic] a president to destroy America”
• “So [President Barack] Obama still demands the hardest workers provide for the nonwotkers [sic]. Shared opportunitiesmy ass.”
• “What subhuman varmint believes others must pay for their obesity booze cellphones birthcontrol abortions & lives.”
• “Goodluk [sic] America u just voted for economic & spiritual suicide. Soulless fools.”
• “So 4 SCOTUS idiots dont believe in self defense. Pure evil.” Nugent was referring to Supreme Court Justices Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. Justices Breyer and Ginsburg dissented in District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. Chicago. In Heller, the Court held for the first time in U.S. history that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to firearm ownership for self defense in the home; thereby striking down D.C.’s handgun ban. In McDonald v. Chicago, the Court held that the Second Amendment, as interpreted in Heller, applied to the states through the Due Process Clause. Justice Sotomayor joined the dissent in McDonald. Justice Kagan has indicated that she also disagrees with the Court’s decisions in Heller and McDonald.
• “I cry tears of blood for The Last Best Place & the warriors who died for this tragedy.”

On October 26, 2012, Nugent tweeted, “The Obama gang turned their soulless slimy backs on Americans in Benghazi. Criminal corruption & abuse of power.” Nugent was referring to an attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya on September 11, 2012. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed in the attack. Congressional hearings revealed that the State Department was aware of, and rejected, several requests for increased security in Benghazi. In addition, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives reduced funding for embassy security. Representative Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), chairman of the U.S. House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security, when asked why Republicans took this step, stated, “Look, we have to make priorities and choices in this country. We have…15,000 contractors in Iraq. We have more than 6,000 contractors, a private army there, for President Obama, in Baghdad. And we’re talking about can we get two dozen or so people into Libya to help protect our forces. When you’re in tough economic times, you have to make difficult choices. You have to prioritize things.”

On October 16, 2012, Nugent tweeted, “ [President Barack] Obama is the ultimate Saul Alinsky & Cloward/Piven smoke&mirrors liar from hell. God help America.” Saul Alinsky was a community organizer and writer in the mid-20th century. In 1971, he wrote a book called “Rules for Radicals” which described his theory and methods of organizing. Richard Cloward and Frances Piven were sociologists and political activists. They outlined a political strategy in 1966 that called for overloading the U.S. public welfare system in order to precipitate a crisis that would lead to a replacement of the welfare system with a national system of "guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty." President Barack Obama has never publicly mentioned Saul Alinsky, Richard Cloward or Frances Piven nor, has he supported a guaranteed annual income in place of welfare.

On October 10, 2012, Nugent tweeted, “How soulless must the [President Barack] Obama gang be to refuse basic security for Americans around the world on 9-11. Criminal complicity to murder treason.” Nugent was referring to an attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya on September 11, 2012. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed in the attack. Congressional hearings revealed that the State Department was aware of, and rejected, several requests for increased security in Benghazi. In addition, the Republican-controlled House of Representatives reduced funding for embassy security. Representative Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), chairman of the U.S. House Oversight Subcommittee on National Security, when asked why Republicans took this step, stated, “Look, we have to make priorities and choices in this country. We have…15,000 contractors in Iraq. We have more than 6,000 contractors, a private army there, for President Obama, in Baghdad. And we’re talking about can we get two dozen or so people into Libya to help protect our forces. When you’re in tough economic times, you have to make difficult choices. You have to prioritize things.”

On October 17, 2012, Nugent tweeted, “Apparently soulless liberals & zombie democrats dont care that their president lies thru his teeth. Go Mitt [Romney].”

In an October 4, 2023 op-ed for the Washington Times, Nugent wrote, “Not so amazing, but the backbone of the Democratic Party, the ones buying the most lottery tickets, are the ones who can least afford it. Duh. If these mouth-breathers promise not to vote, the GOP should buy them a lottery ticket. That would be cheaper than trying to reach them with political ads. The Democrats are once again playing class warfare. Jacking the poor and downtrodden against wealthy Americans is a core Democratic political strategy … The message the Democrats send to their base is that wealthy Americans are to be despised, maligned and punished. The Democratic Party will never admit that wealthy Americans might just be smarter, have a greater tolerance for risk and a stronger work ethic than supporters who carp about how the system is rigged against them and seek a fantasy of ‘shared opportunity.’ Show me where life is fair and I will vote for President Obama. The only things rigged against these comfortably dumb Americans is the image staring back in the mirror and the Democratic Party, which has intentionally enslaved and victimized them for decades … To demonize wealthy people is to spit in the face of the American dream. You might want to note that there is no demonization of the wealthy from Republicans, only Democrats.”

In an October 2, 2023 radio interview on 101 KXL, a Portland, Oregon news radio station, Nugent stated, “[Michigan] turned into a liberal cesspool of slovenliness and gluttony and just entrenched irresponsibility…the opposite of what I grew up in Michigan … Positive spirit and entrepreneurial work ethic…is still alive and well in Michigan, it’s just been overwhelmed by the pimps and the whores and the welfare brats.” Nugent continued, stating, “I couldn’t be more proud, in 2012, hippies and communists hate me. They hate me, which means I’m really really a good person.” When asked what he would do if President Barack Obama won the election in November 2012, Nugent replied, “I’ve saluted too many flag-draped coffins to give up. I’ve spent too much time with U.S. Marines with no legs and Army heroes with no arms and Navy and Air Force and Coast Guard and National Guard guys who have given up everything to give up … If Barack Obama gets back in, I’ll just turn up the heat and fight to demand the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and that ‘We the People’ get more engaged and take this country back from these criminals. Barack Obama and [U.S. Attorney General] Eric Holder and [U.S. Secretary of State] Hillary Clinton and [U.S. Treasury Secretary] Tim Geithner and other czars, they’re all America-hating punks. They hate this country. They hate freedom. They hate excellence. They hate entrepreneurialism. They hate genuine effort. They think there’s somehow some kind of fairness available where people who don’t try as hard somehow benefit the same way as people that try really hard. That’s just buffoonery. That’s just a Karl Marx [author of the ‘Communist Manifesto’], [Former Leader of Communist China] Mao Tse-tung insult.” Nugent, by his own account, evaded being drafted for the Vietnam War in the 1970s by taking controlled substances and smearing his body with feces before a fitness exam.

In an October 1, 2023 interview with Big Hollywood, Nugent stated, “[President] Barack Obama hates America. Barack Obama hates freedom. Barack Obama's voting record, his upbringing, his education, his words, his actions, his misdeeds, all reek of everything anti-American, anti-Constitution, anti-Bill of Rights. The latter of which is most deviously manifested in his voting record against the individual right to keep and bear arms … America faces doom if we re-elect Barack Obama to the presidency. It is a dire, dangerous forecast for freedom … If he wins in November he won't have to kowtow, he won't have to placate anybody anymore. He will be able to go for the jugular, and that includes the jugular of the Second Amendment. He will begin again what he did in Illinois as a gangster politician and go against gun rights, he will tax ammunition, he will ban certain types of bullets, and he will ban certain types of firearms. His goal is Attorney General Eric Holder's goal: namely, to brainwash Americans into believing that guns are bad and that the Second Amendment does not mean individuals have the right to keep and bear arms. Barack Obama is a smoke-and-mirrors scam artist who has convinced people he believes one and one equals two, while he shoves three-and-a-half down your throat … In November 2012, we are voting for [Republican presidential candidate Mitt] Romney/[Republican vice presidential candidate Paul]Ryan because we are voting for the very soul of America. If Barack Obama is elected again, this country is done." Nugent was referring to a speech Eric Holder, then-U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, gave to the Woman’s National Democratic Club on gun violence in 1995. Holder stated, “We want to have…an informational campaign to change the hearts and minds of people in Washington, D.C. and particularly young people. They are saturated in the media and entertainment, or by the entertainment industry, with violence. And I think too many of our young people, in particular our young men, are fascinated with violence, and in particular fascinated with guns. What we need to do is change the way in which people think about guns, especially young people, and make it something that’s not cool, that it’s not acceptable, it’s not hip to carry a gun anymore, in the way in which we changed our attitudes about cigarettes. When I was growing up, people smoked all the time…but over time we changed the way people thought about smoking…and that’s what I think we need to do with guns, really change the way people think about them … This is not going to be something that’s very easy to do, because we are, quite frankly, fighting something that appears every day on television, on the radio, in our popular music, in movies that these kids are exposed to … We need to get really innovative, really creative things that are gonna grab the attention of these kids and change, as I said, the way in which they think about guns … I have asked the school board to make a part of every day some kind of anti-violence, anti-gun message. Every day, every school, at every level. One thing I think is clear with young people, and adults as well, is that we just have to be repetitive about this … We need to do this every day of the week and just really brainwash people into thinking about guns in a vastly different way.”

On September 27, 2012, Nugent tweeted, “Who could possibly not admit that [President Barack] Obama & the dem[ocrat]s are slavedrivers creating a sheeplike subclass of bloodsuckers. buy the vote buy the vote.”

On September 5, 2012, Nugent tweeted, “The [Democratic National Committee] ‘leaders’ are not just Godless they are pathetically soulless antiAmericandismantlers.”

In a September 3, 2023 op-ed for the Washington Times, Nugent wrote, “What a psychotic piece of subhuman debris [mentally ill mass shooter Jared Lee Loughner] did on Jan. 11, 2011, outside a Tucson Safeway store where Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was holding a ‘meet and greet’ with constituents was an unfathomable act of barbarism … The obviously guilty mass murderer has pleaded guilty and has been spared the death penalty. Yet the death penalty is exactly what he deserves. For his crimes, he will spend the rest of his life in prison while six innocent Americans are dead and 13 more are struggling to recover from their wounds. Sparing the killer’s life is not justice, it’s legalized barbarism. Allowing him to live out his days in prison is our convoluted legal system allowing Lady Justice to be mugged again and again … If a killer is deemed to be psychotic, he is held to a different standard by our legal system than a killer who is deemed not to be crazy. That’s a legal system that is certifiably nuts … Locking up the terminal whack-job shooters in prison for the remainder of their lives will cost taxpayers many millions of wasted dollars when all that is required is a 25-cent bullet to the back of their deranged heads. But the do-gooders among us say we shouldn’t do that, that the state shouldn’t sanction ‘murder,’ especially of those who are deemed to be mentally incompetent. Do-gooders are more dangerous than a sow grizzly with cubs or a coiled rattlesnake, as do-gooders champion and sanction legalized barbarism … The McNaughton rule, which basically states that terminal whack jobs can’t be held responsible for their crimes, is the ultimate definition of nuts. It should be replaced with the McNugent rule, which states that regardless of your mental state, if you slaughter innocent people, expect a bullet to the back of the head, most preferably at the scene of the crime. So long as the American justice system is held hostage by mindless do-gooders who wish to enforce their toxic, brain-dead legalized barbarism on the rest of us, our only recourse is to be vigilant and ready to protect ourselves and our loved ones from these psychotic monsters. Shoot them. Punks deserve to pay for their crimes with their lives instead of living out their lives and attending group therapy sessions on the taxpayers’ dime and further burdening the society they already have hurt deeply.” The McNaughton Rule, which Nugent refers to, is a legal standard for insanity. Under the rule, there is a presumption of sanity. The defense must prove "at the time of committing the act, the accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of the mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing or, if he did know it, that he did not know what he was doing was wrong." In addition, studies show that it is typically less costly to imprison an individual for life than to sentence him/her to death.

In a September 1, 2023 interview with Patriot Update, Nugent stated, “The Fourth Amendment is trampled on all the time … Do you know that game wardens, who I adore and have great respect for, they’re heroes of law enforcement – most of them—law enforcement agents of Game Department can come into your house without a search warrant, without just cause. Maybe cause they don’t like you. Maybe you’re the wrong color. Maybe they don’t agree with your politics. Maybe they don’t like your music. It doesn’t matter the reason. A law enforcement official of Game Departments of the United States of America do not respect and are not limited by the Fourth Amendment … They don’t need just cause. They don’t need a search warrant. They can cut the lock on your gate–while you’re home or you’re not home. They can break into your freezer and examine the meat and see if it’s legal. On a hunch. On a rumor. Or just on a bad day … So that’s offensive on all levels but there’s also some other jack-booted Gestapo maneuvers going on these days like the Gibson raids … While we’re sitting here, my email’s going [noise] blowing up with stories of heartbreak: where a teenager, who’s never broke the law in his life, who’s never been in trouble with the law in his life, his family [is] law-abiding, their family has been bankrupted because the U.S. Fish and Wildlife thugs, the same ones that raided Gibson … Just the examples would gag you … When Governor [and Republican presidential nominee Mitt] Romney becomes Commander-in-Chief, I pray to God, along with a great Vice President, Paul Ryan … have got to look into these violations of civil rights and basic human rights at the hands of agencies gone mad … Vote Romney and Paul Ryan as president.” The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is subject to the requirements of the Fourth Amendment; however, some statutes give U.S. Fish and Wildlife agents authority to conduct warrantless searches. Nugent was referring to several U.S. Fish and Wildlife Department raids on the guitar maker Gibson for importing endangered wood.

Turning to the topic of sexual assault of minors, Nugent stated, “We’ve got to create community review boards for judges who keep letting child rapists out, when that judge knows if that child rapist is let out on the streets, he will rape again. And our court systems answer to that is to register them? To know where they live? In a neighborhood instead of a cage, instead of jail?” In 1978, Nugent began a relationship with seventeen-year-old Hawaii native Pele Massa. Due to the age difference they could not marry so Nugent joined Massa’s parents in signing documents to make himself her legal guardian. In 1998 interview with VH1, Nugent spoke about his “weakness for young women.”

In part two of the interview with Patriot Update, Nugent stated, “I hold the most important office on earth, ‘We the People.’ I am a we the people activist on behalf of my family, my neighborhood, my state, my country, and mostly that soldier in a box who died fighting for the U.S. Constitution. We all owe [that soldier] to make sure our elected officials abide by that document that he gave the ultimate sacrifice for.” Nugent evaded being drafted for the Vietnam War in the 1970s. Nugent then spoke about Kasim Reed, the Mayor of Atlanta, stating, “Me and old Kasim go way back. Kasim condemned me recently on one of the news shows … I love when the brown-shirts hate people saving Jews. Anyhow, the idiots and the America-haters hate me. That proves I’m doing God’s work because the devil is upset.” Regarding The Badger State, Nugent said, “Wisconsin is the guiding force and light for what America should be doing, between Scott Walker as Governor, Paul Ryan as Congressman, and now the Senator Tommy Thompson. America should go the way of Wisconsin because Wisconsin turned into a lump of liberal snot hair, just embarrassing. Everything was wrong with it and then come from the debris came Scott Walker.” Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed, whom Nugent refers to, appeared on “Meet the Press” and was asked about a comment Vice President Joe Biden made to a crowd in Danville, Virginia. Biden stated, “Every Republican’s voted for [the House GOP budget]. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they’re proposing. Romney…said in the first hundred days he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules, ‘unchain Wall Street.’ They’re going to put y’all back in chains.” Reed replied, “When Mitt Romney or Paul Ryan stands up to Rush Limbaugh…when they’re disparaging a Georgetown law student or stands up to Ted Nugent, really stands up to anybody or stands up to Donald Trump, then I’ll be willing to have a conversation about a comment that the vice president made.”

In an August 29, 2023 op-ed for the Washington Times, Nugent wrote, “The root of evil is not the want of money, but rather a government that thinks it knows better than free-thinking individuals how best to provide for our well-being. Socialists like [President Barack Obama] use the law and courts to force their failed big-government ideas on those of us still helplessly drunk on freedom, rugged individualism and liberty. You know, the American way. Socialists argue that fairness is the goal. For their version of fairness to occur, socialists must take the earnings and wealth from one person who earned it and give it to another who has not. Karl Marx would be proud of Mr. Obama. We would be wise to remember when then-Sen. Barack Obama was campaigning for the presidency and told Joe the Plumber, “I think when you spread the wealth around, it’s good for everybody.” Those are the words of a socialist who learned his lessons well from his socialist upbringing and on the streets of Chicago as a community organizer … Socialists are punks who think they are smarter than ordinary Americans and that ordinary Americans are so dumb they need to be managed by Fedzillacrats in Washington. These punks are smug, arrogant and wrong … Join me at the dead-end brick wall of freedom and liberty. Let’s ring the Liberty Bell once again. Educate and remind all the people you know every day that if they’re not registered to vote and they fail to vote Romney-Ryan, the socialists win. And the shining city upon a hill comes tumbling down.”

On August 25, 2012, at a concert in Fort Worth, Texas, Nugent stated, “I vow that I will use our freedom to get these dirty [expletives] out of the White House. The president is a bad man. The vice president is a bad man. They’re all bad people. If you don’t get that, you’re a dead [expletive]. If you don’t get that, get out of Texas. Move to Illinois … It’s time to celebrate the taking back of America in 2012 … The whole word sucks, America just sucks less.” While holding up a machine gun, Nugent said to the crowd, “All the skinny girls get a free machine gun tonight. The big girls can load them.” Turning to another topic, Nugent stated,“This is an illegal Gibson guitar, the game warden told me it was illegal. They’re soulless [expletives]. Those spineless, soulless pieces of [expletive] from the Wildlife Agency should take me down now, because all of my Gibsons are made of dangerous species. This one is made of platypus! My audience will beat them within an inch of their lives. Is that illegal? [Expletive], it’s just entertainment!” Nugent was referring to previous U.S. Fish and Wildlife Department raids on Gibson for importing endangered wood.

In an August 24, 2023 interview with Newsmax, Nugent addressed a shooting that had occurred earlier that day at the Empire State Building in New York City. Gunman Jeffrey T. Johnson, a disgruntled former employee of a women’s clothing shop across the street from the Empire State Building, shot and killed a former co-worker. Nugent said, “The Empire State shooting is yet another gun free zone.” Officers posted at the front entrance of the Empire State Building shot and killed Mr. Johnson shortly after the shooting.

On August 14, 2012, at a performance in Chicago, Illinois, Nugent stated, “Freedom ain’t f--kin’ free. And I tell you what, all my friends in the military, I bow. I bow to you. I will use every ounce of spirit, energy, and attitude I have, to use the freedoms you provided at great sacrifice, to get these criminal cocksuckers out of the White House … There’s a soldier in a box. There’s an airmen with no legs. There’s a marine with his skin burned off. There’s a Navy hero with no arms. They did it fighting for the Constitution, while our President [Barack Obama] wipes his f--kin’ a-- with the Constitution … So, I will use that freedom to get people to get their head out of their a—and tell [U.S. Attorney General] Eric Holder, ‘you’re under arrest mother--ker … Hey Obama, go to Cuba and organize some f--kin’ communities.” As Nugent and his band-mates performed a reenactment of the raising of the flag on Iwo Jima during World War II, Nugent stated, “The whole world sucks, but America still sucks less … Semper fi mother--kers.” After the reenactment, Nugent and the rest of his band held up assault style rifles.

On August 7, 2012, at a concert in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Nugent told the crowd that he and his band members spend months each year performing. “The rest of the year, I just kill shit,” Nugent added. He also spoke about President Barack Obama, stating, "I wanna get rid of the dirty cocksuckers in the White House! If there's justice, Barack Obama will end up being a communal worker in Cuba!” Finally, Nugent stated, "The only thing missing in this world is more dead fucking assholes!"

On August 6, 2012, Nugent Tweeted, “Its official-democrats are addicted to flying over the cukoos nest at all costs, hell with truth logic honesty or anything good for America.”

At an August 6, 2023 concert in Clearwater, Florida, Nugent told the crowd, “It's 2012. What are you going to do? They're coming up your streets, jackboots stepping high, looking in your windows. What are you going to do? Put a [expletive] gun in your hands!” Nugent also bragged, “I killed enough deer last year to send venison to the American military. So, thank you, Uncle Ted. When they eat Ted Nugent meat, they kill more [expletive]." Nugent also spoke about the 2012 presidential election, stating, “I promise I will use that freedom to do everything in my power to clean the criminal [expletive] out of the government. Barack Obama will be a community organizer again. Let's vote the [expletive] out of here!" Finally, Nugent said to a woman who frowned during one of his hunting stories, “You voted for Obama, didn't you? … More [expletive] needs to die.”

In an August 2, 2023 op-ed for the Washington Times, Nugent wrote about proposed reforms in the wake of a mass shooting that occurred at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado on July 20, 2012. In that shooting, severely mentally ill gunman James Holmes killed 12 people and wounded 58 others. Nugent commented, “According to the kind, caring and considerate left, you have every right to be a crazy druggie and roam the streets with no means of support. Heck, they even help nut-jobs occupy Wall Street and beyond. Surely, the unarmed and helpless will someday bring peace to the world, end world hunger and Rodney King’s dream of everyone getting along will become a reality. No wonder they call it dope. Years ago the left clamored that mental institutions violated the rights of those with mental illnesses. The American Civil Liberties Union even sued on their behalf. The result was the doors of the cuckoo nests were flung open and the patients stumbled out. Now they are everywhere. You can’t visit any city in America without encountering dirty people who are severely mentally impaired roaming the streets. Pushing shopping carts, mumbling to themselves, sleeping under bridges or in parks and basically being a nuisance, they ultimately endanger themselves. Most are not violent, just certifiably crazy by anyone’s standards. The real discussion that needs to occur in America is how we finally throw off the shackles of political correctness, quit worrying about ‘feelings’ and simply restrict the rights of psychotics by making it easier to lock them up for their safety and the safety of others. Advocating additional gun laws and gun-free zones is crazy. Crazy talk like that can get you killed.” Rodney King was an African-American construction worker who was beaten by Los Angeles police officers during a traffic stop in 1991. Four police officers from the LAPD who took part in the incident were later tried. Three of them were acquitted, and the jury failed to reach a verdict regarding the fourth. The acquittals are generally considered to have triggered the 1992 Los Angeles riots, in which 53 people were killed, and over 2,000 injured. During the riots, King appeared on television and asked, "Can we all get along?"

On July 26, 2012, Nugent Tweeted, “How much dope must one injest [sic] for how long to believe unarmed & helpless is a desirable condition? soulless is as soulless does to bait evil.” Nugent’s Tweet came six days after a mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado, in which severely mentally ill gunman James Holmes killed 12 people and wounded 58 others in a span of two minutes. Holmes wore full body armor during the attack.

On July 26, 2012, at a campaign event for Republican U.S. Senate candidate Tommy Thompson in Wisconsin, Nugent stated, “[Thompson] knows the right to keep and bear arms can only mean one thing. 'Keep’ means it's mine, you can't have it! I got a couple on me right now, and they're loaded.” Nugent also spoke about President Barack Obama, stating, “We are on the fast track to the end of the American dream with this corrupt, power-abusing criminal machine in the White House right now. Things are bad, people ... The president of the United States is a Chicago gangster who knows every criminal trick in the book; it's why he's the president of the United States.”

On July 25, 2012, Nugent Tweeted, “we pray for all victims&lovedones of demonshooter in CO& we SALUTE the brave warriors who saved lives IF only they would hav had a good gun.” He Tweeted again later that day, “there were no assault weapons used in the CO shooting only universally proven sporting & self defense firearms & 6k rounds aint squat. Lies.” Nugent was referring to a mass shooting that had occurred in Aurora, Colorado five days earlier. In that shooting, severely mentally ill gunman James Holmes killed 12 people and wounded 58 others. Holmes wore full body armor during the attack and was armed with two handguns, a shotgun, and an AR-15 assault rifle with a 100-round drum magazine. In addition, he had purchased 6,000 rounds of ammunition online with no background check or screening. Paul A. Smith, outdoors editor for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, has stated that while AR-15s "have gained favor among some hunters and sport shooters in recent decades, they constitute a small fraction of deer hunting rifles in use today."

In a July 5, 2023 op-ed for the Washington Times, Nugent wrote, “I’m beginning to wonder if it would have been best had the South won the Civil War.” Nugent’s editorial addressed the "traitor vote" of “turncoat” Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts in the case of National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius. Roberts wrote the majority opinion in a 5-4 ruling that upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Nugent claimed that “Chief Justice Roberts squandered the opportunity to restore judicial, financial and legislative sanity to a government that by any sane person’s standards is insane and addicted to centralized federal control of our lives … Our professional political punks in Washington can mandate any tax-penalty they choose. For example, if you don’t buy an Obama-approved green energy automobile, our Fedzillacrats could tax us for refusing to do so … Obamacare will now join Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid as another unaffordable, unsustainable, runaway, unaccountable social program. Our entitlement programs have bankrupted America. We have dug a financial crater so deep that many doubt we can ever climb out of." He also suggested that President Barack Obama invite Roberts “over for dinner, give him a ride on Air Force One and apologize for not voting for him during his confirmation hearings. It’s the least the community-organizer- in-chief can do for the turncoat chief justice who saved the president’s socialist health care program.” Finally, Nugent wrote, “Limited government is dead. The smothering era of socialism is here.”

At a June 29, 2023 concert in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Nugent told the crowd, “The way that a--hole in the White House hates me, I must be perfect.” He also stated that if concert goers wanted to help out the military, this November they should “vote the constitution-violating pieces of s--t out of the White House … We’re either independent or dependent pieces of s--t.”

In a June 22, 2023 radio interview on KMOX, a St. Louis news radio station, Nugent told the host, Mark Reardon, “You notice, I just get up in the morning, I go to work, and idiots blow up. I don’t try to make idiots blow up. I just do the right thing, state the truth and celebrate logic and idiots go berserk. I’ve never been more proud of myself in my life.” When Reardon asked Nugent about threatening remarks he made against President Barack Obama and Democrats at the 2012 NRA Convention, Nugent replied, “Like I said, I just get up in the morning and I go to work and I make the national news because I dare to celebrate self-evident truths and, more importantly in 2012, more importantly now than ever, because remember there’ve been more criminals in our government right now, to spotlight the cockroaches. There are more cockroaches, more criminals, more corrupt power abusing punks in our government right now. And if you don’t get that, move to Canada. It’s just unbelievable. So I, as a ‘We the people’ guy, obligated by the heroes of the military who sacrificed so I can have these First Amendment freedoms, I’m gonna use my First Amendment freedoms and I’m gonna identify that the number one cop in this country is a felon … [U.S. Attorney General] Eric Holder is the enemy. Obama is the enemy. [Secretary of the Treasury Tim] Geithner is the enemy … I stand by every word I said.” Nugent also spoke about the “soulless, spineless weenies” at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services, stating that he was charged with illegally shooting, killing and transporting a black bear for “dar[ing] to stand up for my Second Amendment rights.” He signed a plea agreement with federal prosecutors and agreed to a $10,000 fine and a two-year probation. Nugent then turned his attention to female Democrats in the House of Representatives, stating, “The [U.S. Congresswoman Debbie] Wasserman-Schultz and the [U.S. Congresswoman] Sheila Jackson-Lees, by the way, have you ever watched all of my haters talk? Each and every one of my critics is an absolute subhuman buffoon. If you watch the way they speak and the little spittle forming in the corners of their mouths, these are entrenched, addicted haters of freedom. Which is why they hate me. They’re on record to quote and worship Mao Tse-tung.” In fact, neither Congresswoman has quoted Mao Tse-tung. Nugent also added, “I love killing game with guns. I have my own Ted Nugent ammo coming out so, I’m gonna do a lot more gun hunting.” When asked when the ammo was coming out, Nugent replied, “That should be on every vegetarian store’s shelf by mid-July.” When Reardon remarked on Nugent’s endorsement of the 2012 Republican presidential candidate, Mitt Romney, Nugent replied, “My conversation with Mitt Romney convinced me…he will get this Mao Tse-tung gang out of the destructo-derby suicide mission that Barack Obama’s steering this country.”

In a June 15, 2023 op-ed for Newsmax, Nugent wrote, “America’s funny man, Bill Cosby, is dead wrong.” Nugent was referring to an interview on CNN’s “State of the Union” aired on April 15, 2012, in which Cosby addressed the killing of Trayvon Martin by concealed carry permit holder George Zimmerman in Sanford, Florida on February 26, 2012. Cosby said that the race of Trayvon Martin was less important than the fact that the neighborhood watch volunteer who killed him was carrying a gun. In Cosby’s words: “When a person has a gun, sometimes their mind clicks that this thing...will win arguments and straighten people out.” Nugent wrote, “Maybe that logic applies to drunks, dope heads and recidivistic gang bangers, but it doesn’t apply to the hundreds of thousands of law-abiding Americans with concealed carry permits such as George Zimmerman … Americans with concealed carry permits are tremendously responsible citizens, maybe the most responsible citizens of all.” In reality, at least 447 Americans were killed by concealed carry permit holders between May 2007 and June 2012. Nugent continued, stating, “Advocating that only the police should be armed in public is advocating a senseless and wrong-headed policy of the slaughter of innocent Americans. Mr. Cosby is dead wrong here. His unarmed son was murdered for God's sake.” Bill Cosby’s only son, Ennis, was shot and killed during a mugging along an interstate in Los Angeles while changing a tire in January 1997. Turning to the issue of race, Nugent wrote, “I do agree with Mr. Cosby that the Trayvon Martin shooting has nothing to do with race. Only empty-headed racists such as our black-panther loving Department of Justice believe otherwise. Race does, however, play a significant role in the percentage of black Americans who are killed and wounded every single day in America. The overwhelming majority of blacks are slaughtered by other black hoodlums, the overwhelming majority of whom are involved in gangs and drugs—you know, that ‘victimless crime’ thing.”

At a June 9, 2023 performance at the Republic of Texas Biker Rally in Austin, Texas, Nugent told the audience, “There's an American Dream. There's no French dream. There's no Cuban dream. There's no Spanish dream. Is there a Mexican dream, except 'Get the f--k out of Mexico?’ I can't blame you." He then asked the “Republic of Texas Motherf--kers" if they were "ready to dance with Uncle Ted." Nugent explained that his collection of Gibson guitars, which were displayed at the performance, was meant to be a message to the federal government, which is "infested with f--king criminals.” He continued, “Any pussies from the [U.S.] Fish and Wildlife out there, you want to take my guitars? F--k you!” Nugent was referring to several U.S. Fish and Wildlife Department raids on Gibson for importing endangered wood. Finally, Nugent gave a shout-out to the "NRA gun nut motherf--kers out there … Put a f--king gun in your hand, Texas, stormtroopers [are] coming … They, unfortunately, are the real enemies right now. We're gonna fix it in November, aren't we boys and girls?"

In a May 22, 2023 editorial for Human Events, Nugent wrote, “If it were not for this crazy out of control corrupt government, my life would literally be perfect…the enemies of America infesting our government have got to go.” Nugent assured readers that he is doing his part to make that happen, stating, “I fight with all my might and resources on a daily, if not hourly basis to spotlight the cockroaches everywhere I go, and it is getting scarier and more dangerous all the time to speak out in America like I do.” He praised Texas politicians, such as Governor Rick Perry, but warned, “We also have America hating Obama clones like [Congresswoman] Sheila Jackson Lee who represent all that is wrong with America and Texas.”

In a May 15, 2023 editorial for the Washington Times, Nugent lamented “California’s financial nightmare (and the nation’s)” which he attributed to “a terminal addiction to bloated and expensive government completely out of control, with zero accountability.” He announced “Liberalism has failed around the world, and it has failed here, too. Big government has been a big bust. Yet, for liberals, the solution is even bigger government.”

In a May 4, 2023 appearance on "CBS This Morning", Nugent steadfastly stood by threatening remarks he made about the Obama Administration and Democrats three weeks earlier. When interviewer Jeff Glor suggested that Nugent would have a difficult time attracting moderate voters for Mitt Romney, who he formally endorsed for president, Nugent responded by stating “ "I’m an extremely loving, passionate man, and people who investigate me honestly, without the baggage of political correctness, ascertain the conclusion that I’m a damned nice guy, and if you can find a screening process more powerful than that, I’ll suck your d--k. ” Nugent then turned to an off-camera female CBS producer and said to her, “"Or I’ll f--k you, how’s that sound?” At the urging of his wife, Nugent later apologized to the producer and explained his outburst by noting “"he was rushed to the emergency room and had a kidney stone removed ” immediately following the interview.

In an April 19, 2023 editorial for the Washington Times, Nugent defended threats he made against President Barack Obama and Democrats at the 2012 NRA Convention in St. Louis, stating, “By no stretch of the imagination did I ever threaten anyone’s life, or hint of violence or mayhem.” In response to the national controversy his remarks have generated, Nugent said, “I personally have never been prouder … I stand by my statements. The line is drawn in the American sand.”

On April 17, 2012, commanders at Fort Knox announced the cancellation of an upcoming performance by Nugent at the installation, referencing recent threatening remarks made by Nugent against the president. Nugent responded to the cancellation by telling the Associated Press: "To think that there's a bureaucrat in the United States Army that would consider the use or abuse of First Amendment rights in determining who is going to perform at an Army base is an insult and defiles the sacrifices of those heroes who fought for the U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights … There is nothing in my spoken word that could be even wildly considered by any stretch of the imagination to be a threat to anyone .” Asked to clarify his threatening remarks from the recent NRA Convention in St. Louis, Nugent said, “A whole bunch of us…believe…we are in danger of being improperly and criminally jailed–I mean criminally—on the part of the government .”

During a live interview at the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting on April 14, 2012, Nugent called the administration of President Barack Obama “vile,” “evil,” and “America-hating.” He also stated, “If Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.” Continuing on the topic of the 2012 presidential elections, Nugent added, “We need to ride into that battlefield and chop [Democrats'] heads off in November. Any questions?” In the wake of Nugent’s comments, a spokesperson for the Secret Service confirmed that he had been placed under investigation. The campaign of GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney—who sought and received Nugent’s endorsement—released a statement saying, “Divisive language is offensive no matter what side of the political aisle it comes from. Mitt Romney believes everyone needs to be civil.”

During an April 4, 2023 appearance on CNN’s "Piers Morgan Tonight," Nugent discussed the killing of unarmed 17-year-old Trayvon Martin by concealed carry licensee and self-appointed neighborhood watch “captain” George Zimmerman on February 26, 2023 in Sanford, Florida. “Piers you have expressed that you don’t want to try this on television. I also do not want to try this on television. I think we both agree that there is a tragedy that it is being tried and that Zimmerman has been convicted across the media in many instances. So let’s not do this here. So let me propose to you a scenario that I think you can grasp and support. You must be aware, and if not ill inform you now, how many professional law enforcement heroes are killed every year with their own weapon. I’m not juxtaposing this with the Trayvon and the Zimmerman situation, but it does happen where an assaultant will start beating a person so badly that those of us that are armed, we have a responsibility to keep that new assault from taking our weapon. Because if the assault escalates to that degree, certainly the fist can go into a deadly situation if they get ahold of the gun bearer’s gun. So we have to be cognizant of that. If it wasn’t for backup guns in law enforcement and in civilian hands oftentimes, that the perpetrator and the person getting beat up is killed with his own gun. So let’s not dismiss that reality that is documented over and over again across this country,” stated Nugent. Morgan then asked him, “Do you believe that a neighborhood watch official acting in that capacity should be armed and using that firearm?” to which he responded, “Yes.” In a March 24-25, 2012 CNN poll, three-quarters of Americans said that neighborhood watch volunteers should not be armed.

On February 27, 2012, Nugent conducted a wide-ranging interview on KFYI’s “Mike Broomhead Show.” He made the following comments:

• Commenting on the position of the administration of President Barack Obama that the wealthy should pay more taxes, Nugent stated, “Let’s call a spade a spade. I mean the entire current administration under the America-hating Barack Obama, and the America-hating Joe Biden, and the American Constitution criminal Eric Holder. Tim Geithner is the perfect example of what the current American government stinks like. Because Tim Geithner is a tax thief. Tim Geithner was caught not paying his taxes. So instead of being in jail, Tim Geithner, the tax thief, is actually in charge of our financial system. Are you kidding me, why don’t we just hire [serial killer] Jeffery Dahmer to be in charge of the children’s playground? I mean this whole administration is so corrupt. It abuses power like no one in the history of the United States of America has ever done. And Tim Geithner is a poster child. Just like Eric Holder. Running guns to the Mexican drug kings. Are you kidding me? Could it get crazier? Could it get more criminal than this? We have criminals. We have American-hating maniacs in our government. And Tim Geithner’s latest nonsense is a perfect example of that.” At one point, while pronouncing U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner’s last name, Nugent appeared to call him a “kike.”
• Commenting on 2012 Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingrich, and Ron Paul, he stated, “I have great admiration, in varying degrees, for each and every one of them. Each and every one of these candidates have some really really quality positive points about them. And each one of them would make a vastly superior president of the United States than the current mess that we’re in right now. That should be perfectly clear to anybody with a brain. But ultimately these guys got to go down to the Army-Navy surplus store and buy themselves a box of scrotums. They’ve gotta get some balls … These four presidential candidates have to get a little tougher, a little bit more fist pounding on the bully pulpit, and identify the curse, the abject curse that is the United States government the way it stands right now in the hands of Barack Hussein Obama and Eric Holder, et al.”
• Continuing on the topic of the Obama administration, Nugent stated, “Speaking of ridiculous policies, anti-American policies, this current anti-American monster in the White House, this administration is blatant and flagrantly abusing the Constitution, violating the Constitution, and continuing on a death march for America.”
• Turning to the topic of entitlement programs, Nugent claimed, “The entire welfare program is slavery. We are literally enslaving people to feed off of a government and rewarding people to be the worst that they can be, to not try something. Get rid of this embarrassment that there is a list of jobs that Americans aren’t willing to do. Are you kidding me? How about the condition where Americans have actually given up looking for work. That is so embarrassing, why don’t these people just move to France.”

In a February 16, 2023 op-ed for the Washington Times, Nugent wrote, “There remains a segment of the American public who would rather shovel junk into their mouths and sit on the couch than follow a healthy lifestyle. When these Americans become ill, they want others to pay for their health care, which is a key reason why America is broke and in debt. We live in a La-La Land entitlement society where poor choices are condoned and rewarded and individual responsibility and accountability are largely ignored by the bloodsuckers who want the rich to ‘pay their fair share.’ Unbelievable.”

In a January 23, 2024 op-ed for the Washington Times, Nugent wrote, “The real reason [2012 GOP presidential candidate Mitt] Romney is being pressured to release his tax returns is because his fellow GOP presidential candidates, his hateful critics and crazy Demoncrats live to wage class warfare against him for being successful. This is so very wrong. We should respect a person’s financial privacy and celebrate any American who succeeds … There is this toxic, anti-American idea that has surfaced that financial success is something that should be questioned, maligned and condemned and is somehow malicious. This is dangerous and dumb. The Occupy idiots who condemn and blame Wall Street for America’s stagnant economy are simpletons. Let’s hope these morons just keep getting stoned and forget to vote in November.” The release of Romney’s tax returns led to the disclosure that he earns most of his multi-million dollar income in capital gains and placed millions of dollars in offshore investments in an account located in the tax haven Cayman Islands.

In a January 9, 2024 op-ed for the Washington Times, Nugent wrote, “Diversity is America’s greatest strength, according to the left and its socialist, Marxist, commie cohorts and co-conspirators running rampant across the country. If you listen carefully to these America-hating, social-engineering liberals, virtually all behavior, conduct, morals and beliefs make America stronger. This, of course, is toxic, brain-dead logic that leaves ordinary Americans shaking and scratching their heads in confusion and disgust. We recognize bull dung when we hear, see and smell it, and we have no desire whatsoever to embrace it … The left is forcing its version of diversity throughout our society and culture. According to the left and its acolytes, we are supposed to respect people who refuse to respect Old Glory or learn English, look for a job or put forth the effort to do an honest day’s work. We are supposed to respect all cultures, values, laws and religions—even when they have proved throughout history to be dangerous and diametrically opposed to our American way of life, customs, laws and traditions. It will be a cold day in hell before I embrace voodoolike religions and unclean stone-age cultures that retard progress instead of advancing it. The real issue is that by forcing diversity and multicultural nonsense in our workplaces, schools and government agencies on people who still cherish common sense and traditional American values, we’re ripping the nation apart.” Nugent went on to claim that Attorney General Eric Holder’s statement that some critics of President Obama are motivated by race is “the ultimate act of racism.” He continued, “I respect diverse people who respect and cherish basic American customs, traditions, goodwill and values. I have no respect for left-wingers who employ intimidation to make multiculturalism or diversity mandatory as the law of the land. The diversity punks believe in racial set-asides and preferences. You won’t ever solve discrimination by engaging in reverse discrimination. Maybe a racist like Jesse Jackson or Mr. Holder believes in reverse discrimination, but ordinary Americans do not. We are much too focused and intelligent to buy into such Jabberwocky. Real diversity, real change, real progress is accomplished by promoting and embracing Western culture, values and traditions, which is what made America great and created the greatest quality of life ever. Weakening this proven methodology under the artful guise of diversity, multiculturalism and political correctness is every bit as insidious a threat to America as are voodoo-inspired terrorist punks.”

In a December 14, 2023 op-ed for the Washington Times, Nugent wrote, “At least the Three Stooges were hilarious. The Occupy [Wall Street] stooges are much different, though they certainly qualify for classic numskull stooges nonetheless. They are dirty, political punks. I seriously doubt the majority of them could identify five reasons why they are protesting. No one else in the country can. You don’t need to search the Internet far to read story after story of the Occupy stooges committing crimes, fighting the cops, destroying personal property, stinking the place up and engaging in other noble expressions of First Amendment rights. I find that beautiful—priceless, actually. Only human cockroaches spotlight themselves … What America is witnessing is the Democratic Party on parade. I say let the parade of simple stooges continue. Let them continue to demand something for nothing, try and close down streets, fight with the cops, live in filth, dance like Timothy Leary zombies. It’s beautiful. It’s so Democratic Party. Let working hard, playing hard mom-and-pop America witness the Democratic Party in all its shameless, numskull and dirty glory. As the party clowns work tirelessly to falsely paint conservatives as heartless, cold, evil, sexist and racist, I say conservatives should do whatever we can to encourage the Occupy stooges to stay on course, painting themselves for what they are. While I don’t condone violence, watching the cops pounce on and pepper-spray a few Occupy stooges and then drag the dirtballs off to jail in shackles is good for my conservative soul and gold for my sense of humor. Everyone needs at least one hearty laugh every day … What America is witnessing by watching the Occupy clown brigades is the future of America if the Democratic Party is in control.”

In an October 7, 2023 op-ed for the Washington Times, Nugent described the country of Iran as “the land of Allah freaks” and added, “Convert to Islam or die is the mantra of many of the world’s Muslims … It may be a religion of peace, but the religious voodoo whack jobs who embrace the faith are an oppressive, cruel and violent lot … A quick search of the Internet reveals hundreds of instances of Muslims terrorizing and killing Christians and destroying their churches. And we are supposed to believe that Islam is the religion of peace. I think not. Go to jihadwatch.com and read about Islam, the religion of persecution, death and destruction.” He concluded by writing, “Green energy ain’t cuttin’ it. Tilting at windmills is for idiots. Like it or not, America still runs on oil. I’m all for clean energy, such as nuclear, but I’m also a realist who understands that it is brain-dead to be doing business with voodoo extremists when we have access to so much oil and so many other energy resources that we could be mining but aren’t because of our own environmental extremists.”

Nugent authored a September 27, 2023 op-ed for the Washington Times to take issue with comments that actor Morgan Freeman made about the Tea Party movement. Nugent wrote, “If Mr. Freeman could further remove his racist blinders and study the historical condition of black America, he would find the black community was vibrant and strong 60 years ago. This is not the case today. Instead of leaping to ugly and unfounded charges of racism, Mr. Freeman should ask some fundamental questions about what has happened to black America and who is responsible for the destruction. The real architects of the destruction of black America are Democratic Party members who have lied to and manipulated black Americans into believing that the federal government is the answer to improving their condition when, in reality, it is the destroyer of black America. One has to wonder if Mr. Freeman could admit this obvious conclusion.”

During a September 9, 2023 appearance on BBC Radio, Nugent said, “The American dream is based on putting your heart and soul into being the absolute best that you can be. I am convinced that the Republicans in general—and [2012 Republican presidential candidate] Rick Perry, specifically—represent that spirit and that spirit is alive and well across this country. And if we just went to the core of those that are collecting unemployment checks that will look you right in the eye…and go, ‘Yeah, there’s a bunch of jobs I can take, but why bother? I’m getting a pretty good check as it is and they’ll give it to me for two years.’ Do you realize that curse is widespread in this country? But Rick Perry, as a servant of we the people in Texas, respects the basic premise that an able-bodied American should dedicate themselves to be productive.” Nugent also stated that Rick Perry “is the great white buffalo. The fact that it is ‘great white buffalo’ has nothing to do with ethnicity. The great white buffalo was a Native American legend of a mystical beast that found the battered herd and led ‘em across the land.” Finally, Nugent predicted that “America will come to grips that America needs to look like Texas ... Some of the greatest hunting in the world plus there’s no income tax plus I can carry a machine gun in my truck. I mean, how could you not move there?”

During an August 27, 2023 concert in Peoria, Illinois, Nugent “invited his audience to storm down to [the Illinois state capitol in] Springfield and take it over.”

In an August 23, 2023 interview with the Houston Press, Nugent described his musical inspirations by saying the following: “So many other maniac, black animals continue to drive me and my band and my music wild.”

In an August 18, 2023 interview with conservative talk radio host Vicki McKenna, Nugent said the following:

• Nugent called himself the “funniest black man in America.”
• “You have a warrior [in Wisconsin] now. Scott Walker, the [Republican] governor of Wisconsin, is a warrior. He is a great man. He is upgrading the quality of life in Wisconsin—bringing accountability, pragmatism, and rugged individualism back to the forefront of a great state.”
• “There’s a lunatic fringe. There’s always been a lunatic fringe. Unfortunately and heartbreakingly, the lunatic fringe now has a president. The lunatic fringe has given the green light to corruption, fraud, deceit, lying, the abuse of power the likes of which I’ve never seen… Let’s be perfectly honest—we have a president of the United States of America who was raised by communists that hate America. Went to a church regularly—well, they call it a church, I call it a voodoo cave. They went to a voodoo church where they preached hate for America, where it was racist worse than the Ku Klux Klan. Are you kidding me? This guy is the president of the United States?”
• “America has the dumbest, fattest, most disconnected, slovenly children in the world thanks to the [National Education Association (NEA)]. NEA, unions, no thank you. Move to Canada. They already have policies that reward slovenliness up there.”
• “Let me tell you who the goons are, who the lunatic fringe is: Eric Holder, Tim Geithner, Hillary Clinton, who side with the goons, the savages, the rapists, the murderers of the U.N.”
• “By voting in [Republican] Scott Walker as Governor of Wisconsin you just said thank you to the family of a dead soldier.”

In an August 5, 2023 op-ed for the Washington Times entitled “Hiroshima’s Lesson Remembered: Ending War with Overwhelming Force is Quickest Path to Peace,” Nugent wrote, “We face new enemies today, many of whom belong to voodoo terror cells that will use any weapon or means to kill as many Americans as possible. Let us pray that we have a plan to kill every one of these voodoo maggots before they kill another American.”

Nugent, who was rejected by a draft board during the Vietnam War, claimed in a July 25, 2023 interview with Military.com that he has trained with the Navy Seals, Green Berets and Army Rangers in both an official and unofficial capacity since the late 1970s. Nugent claimed his military experience included “sniper work and some various combat type-training.” Referring to the administration of President Barack Obama, Nugent said, “over my dead body will I let this current regime continue in their abuse of power.”

On July 21, 2011, Nugent tweeted, “HumaneSocietyOfUnitedStates is vile criminal scam liars.”

Asked on July 10, 2023 why he was wearing a Confederate flag shirt, Nugent said, “It’s cool.”

In a July 6, 2023 Washington Times op-ed about the economy entitled “Obama punks America,” Nugent made an allusion to the lynching of the President by writing, “Blame George W. Bush if you want for all this bad news, but it is Mr. Obama’s political neck in the economic noose.”

In an interview with Michael Butler of “The Rock and Roll Geek Show” on July 5, 2023 Nugent made the following comments:

• “I’m only semi-Caucasian tonight so I might dance on your skull.”
• “I was in a helicopter in Northern Texas in April with my M4 machinegun killing 169 pigs and 11 coyotes in one morning.”
• Nugent complained about a perceived liberal slant in the music press by comparing himself to “a black Jew at a Nazi-Klan rally.”
• Throughout the interview, Nugent burped President Barack Obama’s name saying, “That’s the only decent use of toxic gas by the way. Stating the President’s name.”
• “It’s almost like 1776 again. We have the enemies of America in charge.”

In a June 30, 2023 op-ed for Washington Times, Nugent wrote, “On this Independence Day, sit down with your children, loved ones, friends, neighbors and co-workers and read the Declaration of Independence and discuss it. Get them to commit to a new uprising in which our King George politicians are dethroned and run out of Washington. Be a patriot and save America.”

In June 2011, during an interview with the Philip Friedman Outdoors radio program, Nugent said the following:

• He referred to people of Japanese descent as “Japs.”
• “So when you’re on these kind of mind-altering drugs and you’re mentally ill to think that animals can have rights like human beings do, you can also succumb to the criminal urges and the subhuman anti-life urges of murderers.”
• “If a person can think that an animal has rights, then they can think that a human doesn’t have any rights. And we have to watch out for these people and if necessary neutralize them.”
• Nugent called President Barack Obama “a community organizer gangster from Chicago” and his administration the “Mao Zedong Fan Club.”
• “There are plenty of whales … Tell [environmental activist] Paul [Watson] that I’m gonna’ go whale hunting this year. And I’m going to kill an extra 20 of them just for him. What a punk. I’ll tell you what. Hey Paul, bring your “Whale Wars” [cable television program] to the Ted Nugent concert and I’ll show you how we handle threats.”

In an April 2011 op-ed published in the Washington Times entitled “America Needs Fox News,” Nugent wrote, “The American public is not nearly as naive or easily manipulated as what the liberal reporters in the newsroom believe. Thanks to the new media and cable news giant Fox News, there is now competition for viewers and readers, and the believability factor at Fox is kicking major butt. ”

In a March 24, 2023 op-ed for the Washington Times entitled “Multicultural Rot in the Melting Pot,” Nugent wrote, “While Europe and America, to some extent, were embracing multiculturalism, Muslims were murdering Christians and burning down their churches in Muslim countries...The definition of Islam is subjugation.” The editorial was accompanied by an image of a man wearing a mosque as a dunce cap.

In an op-ed published in the Washington Times on March 14, 2011, Nugent called Attorney General Eric Holder a “racist punk.” Nugent also claimed that Holder gave the New Black Panthers organization free reign to “legally intimidate white citizens without fear of reprisal.”

During a concert at Texas Governor Rick Perry's Inaugural Ball on February 17, 2007, Nugent, "using machine guns as props appeared onstage as the final act of the inaugural ball wearing a cutoff T-shirt emblazoned with the Confederate flag and shouting offensive remarks about non-English speakers.”  Responding to Nugent's performance, Gary Bledsoe, president of the Texas chapter of the NAACP, said, "Whenever someone sports the Confederate battle flag, many Texans will be offended, and rightly so, because of what it symbolizes—the enslavement of African-Americans and more recently the symbol of hate groups and terrorists."

During a February 2011 interview with Salt TV, Nugent said, “The thing is the unions and the Democrats and the Liberals have literally said, ‘No, you can be a feeble lazy whiner. We’ll send you a check.’ How about this? Under the Ted Nugent administration, welfare? Done. Zero. Unemployment? No such thing. Stop at the help wanted sign and do one of the jobs Americans aren’t willing to work … Get a fucking job.”

On September 10, 2010, the Washington Times published an op-ed written by Nugent entitled “A Salute to Sarah Palin, Glenn Beck, et al.” In the piece Nugent praised the entire Fox News team for their “sensible, courageous and reasonable voices.”

In a November 9, 2023 op-ed for the Washington Times, Nugent wrote, “If we are to save the country for future generations of Americans and ensure they have more opportunity than we do, we must address entitlement spending and address it now. Then kill it all.”

In a September 23, 2023 Washington Times op-ed, Nugent wrote, “If there are in fact moderate Muslims, they have been quiet as mosque mice regarding their views.” He also expressed his concern about “Shariah law slowing poisoning our legal system.” “What the Obama administration and Muslims will not tell Americans is that the ultimate goal of Islam is to take over the world and replace representative, constitutional governments with Shariah,” wrote Nugent.

In a July 1, 2023 op-ed for the Washington Times about members of the Supreme Court who favor gun control, Nugent wrote, “Heads up, black-robers. I am in charge of my life, survival, thoughts, statements, writings, religious practices and, without a shadow of a doubt, my God-given individual right to keep and bear arms to defend myself from evil in any shape or form. With all due respect, I see and know clear and present evil in tyranny, dictatorships, emperors, kings, despots, slave drivers and the history of abuse of power. And I defy it out of hand.”

In a May 7, 2023 op-ed in the Washington Times, Nugent called for the racial profiling of Muslims using the following analogy: “Word on the streets of our otherwise quiet little neighborhood is that random packs of Dalmatians have been attacking kids all over town. Numerous eyewitness reports, video, citizens’ testimony and documentation conclusively identifies these black-and-white-spotted dogs violently biting, maiming, and in some horrific instances, actually killing children and then viciously attacking responding animal-control officers … And the list of dogs with little black and white spots goes on and on and on. We are waging a war on terror and terrorists - Muslim monsters whose self-avowed “religion” is to wipe out Americans. They say it and they do it every chance they get. They are not inconvenient or rude - they are deadly. We know who they are, how they live and we know what they look like. And they are everywhere.” He also added, “First rule from my hometown of Detroit - you don’t bring a net to a dogfight. You bring a silenced .22 Magnum scoped rifle and take out the dangerous animal with a head shot at the very first opportunity … My name is Ted Nugent, and I profile.”

During a March 2010 interview with Fox New’s Neil Cavuto, Nugent condemned supporters of health care reform and stated, “They’re pigs, Neil. We gotta’ kill the pig.” When Cavuto asked Nugent if he was speaking humorously, he responded “not really.”

During a March 6, 2023 appearance on “NRA News,” Nugent discussed how he donated a hunting trip to a family with four disabled children and no health insurance, saying, “The anti-hunters are against compassion. The anti-hunters are gonna’ protest that Ted Nugent is gonna’ take the Clark family hunting and I’m just going to say, ‘Don’t talk to me. Talk to that young man in the wheelchair over there. And you, Mr. PETA [People for the Ethnical Treatment of Animals] punk, you Mr. HSUS [Humane Society of the United States] mindless whore, you tell the little boy he can’t go hunting and then come see me.’” Nugent also bragged about firing fully automatic machine guns with “inner city” youth, stating, “You want to get a kid high? Give him a machine gun with Uncle Ted.” Finally, Nugent commented, “The only difference between [deceased Nirvana frontman] Kurt Cobain’s quail gun and mine is I use mine on quail.”

During a June 2007 appearance on Fox News, Nugent compared the illegal immigration issue to the Battle of the Alamo, saying, “Davy Crockett had to shoot Santa Anna’s men. It was the right thing to do. Everybody knows that Davy Crockett was doing the right thing. But he wouldn’t get the Hispanic vote.”

The pre-release cover for Nugent’s 2007 “Love Grenade” album featured a photo of a nude woman on a platter. The woman is bound with rope and has a hand grenade in her mouth.

During a 2006 performance of his song “Kiss My Glock,” Nugent called both gun control advocate Sarah Brady (whose husband Jim Brady was seriously injured in an assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan) and former Attorney General Janet Reno “a dirty whore” and civil rights activist Jesse Jackson “a piece of shit.” Nugent also shot a crossbow at an effigy of Reno, causing its pants to fall off and reveal a giant phallus.

On March 22, 2004, rock star/musician Courtney Love appeared on the “Howard Stern Show” and stated that she performed oral sex on Nugent when she was 12 years old.

Regarding controversial comments he made during an April 2000 concert in Houston, Texas, Nugent explained, "What I said is, 'If you can't speak English, get the fuck out of America.' Spurred by a first-person, hands-on, eyewitness experience in America, where I've gone to enough fuckin' convenience stores where the cocksucker behind the counter can't translate 'doughnut' for me. I never mentioned the word 'Hispanics.' I never mentioned the word 'Mexicans.' I never mentioned the word 'Latinos.' I never mentioned the words 'Spanish language.' I merely said, 'If you can't speak English, get the fuck out of America.”

During a 2000 concert in Greenville, South Carolina, Nugent addressed an ongoing controversy concerning the flying of the Confederate flag at South Carolina’s statehouse by telling the audience, “Those politically correct motherfuckers can take the flag down but I am going to wear it forever.”

In a 1994 interview with Westword newspaper, Nugent called then-First Lady Hillary Clinton a “toxic cunt” and a “two-bit whore for Fidel Castro.” Commenting on the immigration issue, he said, “We should put razor wire around our borders and give the finger to any piece of shit who wants to come here.” Finally, Nugent offered that LSD users should be caned and “go to prison in an overcrowded cell where a huge, unclean black man will fuck [them] in the ass every night.”

Interviewed in late 1992 on WRIF-FM in Detroit, Michigan, Nugent referred to animal rights activist Heidi Prescott as a “worthless whore” and “shallow slut” before asking, “Who needs to club a seal, when you could club Heidi?”

On September 25, 2023 Nugent said the following on WRIF-FM in Detroit, Michigan: “I met a couple guys in line yesterday who go, 'Write something to my girlfriend, she won't let me go hunting.' I wrote her something and I said, 'Drop dead, bitch.' What good is she, trade her in, get a Dalmatian. Who needs the wench?" During the same show, Nugent said, “Saudi Arabia, man, and see if we can't get a four iron and knock people's laundry off the top of their heads. Wear laundry on your head and die.”

In 1990, Nugent conducted an interview with the Detroit Free Press Magazine and stated, “Apartheid isn't that cut and dry. All men are not created equal. The preponderance of South Africa is a different breed of man ... They still put bones in their noses, they still walk around naked, they wipe their butts with their hands ...These are different people. You give 'em toothpaste, they fucking eat it.” Nugent also defended his use of the N-word, saying it was a natural result of “hanging around with a lot of niggers.”