Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin says she wanted to take Jesus to a White House dinner with Donald Trump, but settled instead for ultra-conservative rockers Kid Rock and Ted Nugent.
Trump not only welcomed the threesome with smiles, a private White House dinner and tour, he also let them pose for a mocking picture in front of a White House portrait of former first lady Hillary Clinton whom he defeated in November. Palin posted the picture on Facebook, and it got a lot of attention â even making network evening news.
The 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee said she invited her millionaire rocker friends because she knew they would âget to express a lot of good, middle-class, work-ethic type issuesâ with Trump, ABC News reported.
The president, with almost 100 days under his belt, reportedly discussed âfederal policiesâ with his brain-trust friends over dinner.
âWe discussed various quality of life issues and how entrenched status quo political correctness has wrecked everything it has touched and how his administration is focused and dedicated to get back to the US Constitutional basics of government of, by and for the people,â Nugent, aka the âWhackMaster,â wrote on his blog.
Nugent boasted on Thursday that he bent Trumpâs ear about âthe misguided, anti-science and anti-hunting laws and regulations perpetrated by power abusing bureaucrats infesting our states and nation.â
It wasnât clear if the man now in the Oval Office remembers that Nugent unleashed one of his many racist rants in calling Trumpâs predecessor a âsubhuman mongrelâ and a âchimpanzee.â During last yearâs campaign the âMotor City Madmanâ used vulgar language in calling Clinton a criminal.
Nugentâs racist rhetoric is legendary, so thereâs hardly any way the Chief Executive couldnât know. And like Trump, who was behind the totally bogus conspiracy theory that former President Obama wasnât born in the United States, Nugent also laps up conspiracy theories, frequently lacing them with racism, xenophobia, misogyny and anti-Semitism.
In February of last year, as Trumpâs campaign was picking up steam, the man who likes to call himself an âAmerican Badassâ served up a very public dose of anti-Semitism, blaming prominent Jewish leaders for pushing gun control.
Nugent called Trumpâs one-time rival, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, âJew York City mayor Mikey Bloomberg.â
Nugent labeled Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., as a âGlobalist political agentâ and contended that the late New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg âGave Russian Jew immigrants your tax money.â
Nugent also once posted that Jews killed by Nazis in World War II were âsoulless sheep to slaughter.â He quickly got public support for that from racists Mathew Heimbach of the Traditional Youth Network and former KKK leader David Duke.
An early Trump supporter, Nugentâs racism generated headlines again in March 2016 when he posted a doctored image of a van labeled âTwo ni–ers and a stolen truck,â the New York Daily News reported.
The Secret Service investigated Nugent in 2012 after he made a series of incendiary remarks against then-President Obama at a National Rifle Association convention. Nugent continues to serve on the NRAâs board, despite repeated calls for his removal by many gun owners.
Nugent claimed he went âunarmed,â without so much as even a pocket knife, to Wednesday nightâs White House dinner where, he says, he got âwinksâ from watchful Secret Service agents.
Palin, glowing about the dinner with Trump, appeared on CNN on Thursday, still purring with pride about âgetting great updates last night at the White House.â
âPresident Trumpâs invitation for dinner included bringing a couple of friends,â Palin wrote on Facebook.
âIt was the highest honor,â she wrote, âto have great Americans who are independent, hardworking, patriotic, and unafraid share commonsense solutions at the White House. (Asked why I invited Kid Rock and Ted Nugent I joked, âBecause Jesus was booked.â)â
Kid Rock, for his part, appeared the most subdued of the trio the day after dining with The Donald. His Facebook page, unlike Palinâs and Nugentâs, wasnât on fire with comment about the event.
He didnât even appear to respond when someone posted: âKid Rock, Ted Nugent (squirrel fucker) and Sarah Palin…ride out into America for the âTalentless Shit Storm of Stupid Tour 2017â brought to you by Whitetrash4tRUMP Productions, Ltd.â