10 Times Celebrities Threatened the President With Violence

By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Monday, June 05, 2017

4. Ted Nugent

Ted Nugent responds to a question during an interview before a concert at the House of Blues at the Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas, Nevada August 11, 2007. Nugent said he is considering running for governor of Michigan in 2010 and remains passionate about his music career and hunting. | (Photo: Reuters/Steve Marcus)

During the 2012 presidential campaign season, conservative rock music singer Ted Nugent garnered controversy for inflammatory rhetoric regarding both then President Barack Obama and Democrats in general.

"If Barack Obama becomes the president in November, again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year," said Nugent, noting when it came to Democrats he said he and his peers "need to ride onto that battlefield and chop their heads off in November."

In 2007 during a concert, Nugent called then Senator Obama "a piece of s***," adding that he called on Obama to "suck on my machine gun."

Years later, when Nugent's comments were compared to Kathy Griffin's beheaded Trump photo, the musician rejected the parallel.

"My quote was that I was afraid if Obama was elected again I would either be dead or in jail because of all of the farmers and ranchers and citizens across this country who unload on me on a regular basis where they're being persecuted by various bureaucrats," said Nugent in 2017.

"I did not threaten anybody's life, yet Kathy Griffin and the whole left talking points including our own friend Juan Williams, just repeats the lie that I threatened the president's life, never happened."