It doesn't surprise me that President Trump would give an audience in the Oval Office to Ted Nugent.
The former Amboy Duke visited Trump along with fellow rocker Kid Rock and Sarah Palin.
Although Palin and Kid Rock are much maligned their presence in the Oval Office is no skin off my nose. But the Motor City Madman is another matter.
I suppose Trump and Nugent are just two peas in a pod. Perhaps Trump and Nugent shared a good laugh over their retweets. Perhaps they reminisced about Nugent retweeting an image of Jewish Americans who support gun control including Michael Bloomberg who was referred to as the mayor of "Jew York City." Perhaps Trump told him that was nothing compared to his retweet of Hillary Clinton with the Star of David with money in the background.
Now it's certainly true that Trump treats Israel with more respect than President Obama ever did. But that is a very low bar to clear. Making statements about the Holocaust without acknowledging it targeted Jews, a White House Press Secretary who last week erroneously claimed Hitler didn't use chemical weapons and now meeting in the Oval Office with Nugent. Can David Duke be far behind? No wonder the White House wants to keep its visitor logs a secret.
At best, Trump is two-faced and at worst legitimizing anti-Semitism as a form of political discourse.
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