Ted Nugent and Son Rocco Post Song About Attempted Donald Trump Assassination: ‘Who Shot Trump’
Gun-rights advocate and MAGA rocker Ted Nugent has teamed up with his son Rocco Winchester Nugent on a new song about last month’s attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump. The mid-tempo track, “Who Shot Trump,” featuring laconic vocals from Rocco — who usually records under the name rocco, moon — was uploaded earlier this week and it finds the pair repeating a series of Trumpian talking points while warning “they f–ked up.”
It opens with what sounds like audio from the July 13 incident in Butler, PA, featuring three-time Republican presidential candidate Trump speaking to the crowd before what sounds like the confusing aftermath of the shooting overlaid with strummed electric guitar. Rocco Nugent then begins singing in a plaintive voice, “Who shot Trump/ Cause they f–ked up/ When they shot Trump/ They f–ked up.”
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Rocco goes on to describe watching Fox News that day and seeing Trump turn his head as the assailant’s bullet nicked his ear, suggesting that intended target Trump was “clearly touched by the hand of God.” In keeping with his dad’s strident support of twice impeached convicted felon Trump, Rocco sings, “But now you got problems when you f–k with us/ He’s our guy/ Here’s the reason why/ You had your shot but he ain’t die/ Inside job/ I don’t care/ Y’all just protect that man right there/ It’s time to fight/ Stand your ground/ Let them know how freedom sounds.”
Nugent, who has leaned more into expressing his right-wing political views than releasing music or touring over the past decade — his most recent album as 2022’s Detroit Muscle — posted a video on Thursday (August 1) in which he and his son give their opinions on how the scene where Trump spoke that day could have been secured in a better fashion. After his dad calls the FBI, CIA and Secret Service “a bunch of jerks,” Rocco gives his take on where officials should have been that day to potentially stop 20-year-old alleged gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks from getting off eight rounds from his military style AR-15 rifle.
The FBI has determined that Trump was struck by a bullet, or a bullet fragment, that grazed his ear in the incident in which attendee Corey Comperatore, 50, was killed and a number of other attendees were wounded; Crooks was shot and killed by snipers shortly after he opened fire from a roof near the rally site.
Nugent has long been a full-throated supporter of former one-term President Trump, who is currently in an increasingly tighter race with expected Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris. The former Senator and San Francisco prosecutor stepped in two weeks ago when President Joe Biden announced that he was dropping out of the race and endorsing his VP.
The Nugents’ song was uploaded a day before Trump made a controversial appearance at the annual gathering of the National Association of Black Journalists on Wednesday (July 31), where his team reportedly pulled him off stage after just over a half hour of a planned hour chat following a series of insulting, racist comments about Harris by the former reality TV host.
In addition to telling one of his interviewers that her questions were “nasty” and “disgraceful” — after ABC’s Rachel Scott noted that Trump has previously called Black journalist’s questions “stupid and racist” — Trump drew gasps in the room when he suggested that he didn’t know, “she [Harris] was Black until a number of years ago when she happened to turn Black and now she wants to be known as Black.”
Scott noted that Harris attended a historically Black college, Howard University, and was a member of the historically Black sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha; in addition, as a U.S. Senator Harris was a member of the Congressional Black Caucus. The comments from Trump, who has often attacked his rivals on the basis of their race or gender, were immediately fact-checked as false; Harris is the daughter of a Jamaican father and an Indian mother. In a briefing on Wednesday White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, who is Black, called Trump’s claims “repulsive… it’s insulting and no one has any right to tell someone who they are, how they identify,” she said.
Listen to “Who Shot Trump” below.
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