Rock legend Ted Nugent took the stage at a Donald Trump rally in his home state of Michigan on Monday night to make a final plea with voters of the blue state: go back to your red roots.
“How in God’s name did we become a blue state?” Nugent told attendees between his electric guitar renditions of the Star Spangled Banner and Fred Bear. “Can you educate these numbnuts that they can’t vote for a lying scam artist?”
Nugent, who accompanied the Republican nominee on the campaign trail on Sunday, was the opening act for Trump’s last-ever rally, taking place in Grand Rapids, Mich. The musician implored Michigan residents to elect a president who would not take money from those who have earned it.
“Let me guess, you earn your own way, don’t you? You believe you have to earn your own way, don’t you?” Nugent said. “If you don’t earn your own way, you are a slave to some scam artists who will take from the earners and redistribute it to people who don’t deserve it and didn’t earn it. I give you Hillary Clinton. I give you Barack Obama.”
“Hillary Clinton supporters and blue state maniacs actually have an acceptable colloquialism now. Americans that have given up looking for work,” Nugent added. “How about the other embarrassment? Americans that have lists of jobs they’re not willing to do … there’s not a job I’m not willing to do … there’s nothing that we wouldn’t do to be in the asset column of Michigan and that’s what Donald Trump will do.”
Nugent, who added he has not missed a deer hunting season since 1949, left his group to rally with Trump, he explained. The move was worth it, according to the Trump surrogate, who said, “I’ve got a feeling I’m gonna kill a big buck in the morning. I’m inspired.”
During Nugent’s campaign appearance in Sterling Heights, Mich., on Sunday, he grabbed his crotch in a reference to how he felt about Michigan being a blue state.
