Overview
- Nugent posted a Let’s Talk Music/Spirit Campfire episode on Jan. 1 in which he weighed in on Detroit’s Thanksgiving halftime performers and other rock figures.
- He called Jack White and Eminem “total idiots” and claimed they oppose secure borders and back transgender athletes in women’s sports, assertions reporters noted he did not substantiate.
- Addressing Tom Morello, he said, “You’re not raging against the machine, you are the machine,” and invited the guitarist to come on his show to defend his views.
- Even as he attacked their politics, he praised their craft, saying White “delivered real rock and roll” and calling Green Day’s playing “really, really killer stuff.”
- Coverage situates the episode within Nugent’s long pattern of incendiary commentary, and no public responses from the named artists were reported.