Ted Nugent has claimed that the coronavirus is “not an actual pandemic” amongst a bunch of outlandish claims put ahead in a Christmas message to followers.
Going reside on Fb on Christmas Day (December 25), Nugent additionally insulted US Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, and claimed that George Floyd “killed himself with fentanyl”.
“Merry Christmas,” he started. “Ho, ho, ho! No, not you Camel-a,” he added, intentionally mispronouncing Harris’ identify.
“So right here I’m connecting with you on Christmas Day. Merry Christmas everyone world wide,” he added, reeling off an inventory of nations the place he believes he has followers, arriving at “England, the as soon as nice Britain”.
“As a result of it ain’t nice any extra. Bunch of sheep. You realize the brand new nationwide anthem over there? The brand new nationwide anthem world wide? Baaah! Baaah! Baaah! Baaah! Yeah, let me put this masks on. Baaah!”
Nugent went on to ask followers to “decree day-after-day of your life that we’re good folks in America. That there’s no systemic racism in America. There’s systemic racism in Black Lives Matter.
“There’s systemic racism within the Sudan,” he continued, “There’s systemic racism in Nigeria. However there’s no systemic racism — nearly no racism in any respect in America. You gotta actually look onerous to search out it. I haven’t seen any.”
Shifting on to Floyd’s demise, which sparked a summer season of world anti-racism protests, Nugent mentioned: “George Floyd killed himself with fentanyl. He couldn’t breathe all by himself within the backseat. He fought the cops. They tried to subdue him, to possibly get him some assist, and to save lots of the neighborhood that he had thugged all his life.
“So I’m figuring out the scourge of the devils in order that we will rejoice the constructive beginning of Jesus Christ, December twenty fifth, 2020.”
Earlier this 12 months, Nugent mentioned that he voted for Donald Trump within the 2016 Presidential election as a result of the president was “ready to crush the status quo”.
Showing as a visitor on an version of Triggered, hosted by Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., Nugent mentioned: “I at all times inform everyone that Donald Trump is the closest you’ll ever get to Ted Nugent in politics.”