Ted Nugent has responded after a venue in Birmingham, Alabama, cancelled his upcoming present resulting from social media backlash.
It began when it was introduced that the guitarist — who’s outwardly conservative and a longtime supporter of Donald Trump — could be performing on the Avondale Brewing Co. venue on July 18 as a part of his Adios Mofo farewell tour. The put up in regards to the live performance had 1000’s of feedback protesting the present and Nugent’s right-wing political opinions, based on AL, which led to venue to cancel the present.
“We’ve got heard the considerations of the Avondale neighborhood, which is so essential to us, and together with our companions, have taken the required steps to to cancel the Ted Nugent live performance scheduled for July 18,” the venue wrote.
Nugent took to Twitter on Friday (Could 5) to reply to a narrative in regards to the state of affairs, retweeting an article and writing, “liars & haters drunk on silly incapable to debate me.”
The ringer has most lately come below hearth lately for his transphobic tweets and remarks, most lately blasting Anheuser-Busch for working with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney. “How can they probably have a gathering across the desk and are available to the conclusion that they’re going to piss within the face of the individuals who pay their salaries?” he mentioned on a latest episode of Newsmax’s Eric Bolling the Stability in regards to the model’s “core client demographic,” seemingly referring to conservatives. “That is the epitome of cultural deprivation in an ongoing tsunami of cultural deprivation.”
His historical past of disturbing remarks additionally contains saying that survivors of the Parkland faculty taking pictures are incorrect responsible the NRA for mass shootings and that the Florida college students calling for gun management have “no soul” and are “mushy brained youngsters.”
He additionally examined constructive for COVID-19 in 2021, months after he mentioned the virus was “not an actual pandemic,” and weighed in on the Ferguson choice in 2014 that permit police officer Darren Wilson stroll scot-free after taking pictures and killing unarmed civilian Michael Brown. “Right here’s the teachings from Ferguson America- Don’t let your children growup to be thugs who assume they will steal, assault & assault cops as a lifestyle & badge of black (dis)honor. Don’t preach your racist bulls— ‘no justice no peace’ as blabbered by Obama’s racist Czar Al Not So Sharpton & their black klansmen,” he wrote in his deeply offensive put up on the time.
