Ted Nugent's Craziest Quotes
The musician appears to live for controversy.
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Stands By Trayvon "Gangsta Wannabe" Remarks - An outspoken advocate for gun rights and conservative politics, rock musician and National Rifle Association board member Ted Nugent has made big waves in the media for his attacks on the Obama administration and thoughts on the Trayvon Martin case. Keep reading for a look at some of his most outrageous statement so far. — Britt Middleton (Photo: Randy Snyder/Getty Images)
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Really? - "A president who is an avowed racist who claimed because Trayvon Martin was Black — even though he was a gangster, an attacker and a doper — could have been his son. Really?" Nugent said in an interview with Penn Live in February 2014. (Photo: Jamie Squire/Getty Images)
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Subhuman Mongrel - “I have obviously failed to galvanize and prod, if not shame enough Americans to be ever vigilant not to let a Chicago communist-raised, communist-educated, communist-nurtured subhuman mongrel like the ACORN community organizer gangster Barack Hussein Obama to weasel his way into the top office of authority in the United States of America,” Nugent said in January, Politico reports. (Photo: Kevin Winter/Getty Images)
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Anti-Trayvon Rant - On Saturday Aug. 3, Nugent continued his harsh criticism of Trayvon Martin on a WGAN talk show in Maine. "Trayvon got justice," he said in response to recent protests of Nugent's New Haven concert. Demonstrators were responding to Nugent's op-ed piece in which he called Trayvon a "gangsta wannabe." Nugent repeated the remark during the interview and added that Trayvon acted with "bloodthirst."(Photo: Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
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In Defense of George Zimmerman - Responding to George Zimmerman's acquittal, Nugent issued a statement in July bashing President Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder for "refusing to admit that the 17-year-old dope smoking, racist gangsta wannabe Trayvon Martin was at all responsible for his bad decisions." (Photo: Mark Wilson/Getty Images)
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Stevie Wonder Diss - After Stevie Wonder announced that he would boycott performances in Florida in protest of Zimmerman's acquittal, Nugent lashed out against the singer while appearing on a Boston radio program: "So 700 Black people, mostly young children and young people, were slaughtered in Chicago last year by Black people, and not a peep out of Stevie Wonder. Are you kidding me? What is this, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest? How brain-dead do you have to be?" (Photo: David Livingston/Getty Images for NAMM)
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2012 Election Fears - Speaking at a NRA conference in 2012: "If Barack Obama becomes the president in November again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year." Alluding to the American Revolution, he added, "We need to ride into that battlefield and chop their heads off in November." (Photo: than Miller/Getty Images)
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The "Barack Obama Gang" - In a January 2013 interview with Guns.com: "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." (Photo: Jamie Squire/Getty Images)
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Nugent on Apartheid - In a July 1990 interview with Detroit Free Press Magazine: "My being there (South Africa) isn't going to affect any political structure. Besides, apartheid isn’t that cut-and-dry. All men are not created equal." (Photo: Kevin Perkins/Pedro Andrade, PacificCoastNews.com)
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Obama and Clinton Attack - "Hey, Obama. You might wanna suck on one of these, you punk," Nugent said while waving two machine guns in the air during at one of his 2008 concerts. Turning his attention to then-presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, Nugent added, "Hillary, you might wanna ride one of these into the sunset, you worthless b---h." (Photo: Jeff Swensen/Getty Images)
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Guns and Glory - "Anybody that wants to disarm me can drop dead. Anybody that wants to make me unarmed and helpless, we’re gonna literally create the proven places that where more innocents are killed called "gun-free zones," we’re gonna beat you. We’re gonna vote you out of office, or suck on my machine gun, you can take it whichever way you want,” Nugent told CNN's Piers Morgan in 2011. (Photo: Andrew Spear for The Washington Post via Getty Images)
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Action Against Illegal Immigration - On undocumented immigrants in the United States: "In an unauthorized entry, armed like they are right now, invading our country, I’d like to shoot 'em dead," the musician said in a 2008 interview with FOX News. (Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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The Destruction of Black America - "Barack Obama, the guy who received roughly 93 percent of Black American votes, is the clear and present engineer of the destruction of Black America," Nugent said in a February 2013 column for the conservative website WorldNetDaily (WND). "It’s not all the president’s fault, but the economic and social policies he endorses are destroying what is left of a once proud and strong Black America." (Photo: Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)