When Ted Nugent examined optimistic for COVID-19 this week, the musician’s detractors in all probability could not assist however really feel some schadenfreude at the state of affairs. In any case, the 72-year-old “Stranglehold” singer, a comrade of former President Donald Trump and, following that very same thread, a 2020 election denier, has continuously claimed the coronavirus pandemic is not actual.
However moderately than depart the musician to his circumstances, late-night TV’s Jimmy Kimmel could not assist however poke enjoyable at Nugent. On Wednesday’s (April 21) Jimmy Kimmel Reside, the present aired a compilation video of the occasions the Nuge has stated that neither the pandemic nor the resultant vaccines are actual.
“You recognize who may have used the vaccine is Ted Nugent,” Kimmel stated. “Ted Nugent, a person who repeatedly claimed the pandemic wasn’t actual, COVID wasn’t actual — guess what? He has COVID. It is actual. He says he is been very sick for the previous 10 days. So let’s take a second now to relive a few of Ted’s golden COVID moments.”
Within the video, clips from a number of of the “Cat Scratch Fever” rocker’s livestreams run collectively to focus on him calling the worldwide well being disaster “bullshit” and “not an actual pandemic, and that is not an actual vaccine.” In a single half, the musician says that “COVID 1 by means of 18 did not shut something down — however, whoa, COVID-19!”
Nonetheless, in an April 19 Fb Reside video, Nugent confessed, “Everyone informed me I mustn’t announce this. I’ve had flu signs for the final 10 days. I simply, I assumed I used to be dying — only a clusterfuck. … I used to be examined optimistic in the present day. I obtained the Chinese language shit.”
However extra lately, per Heavy Consequence, Nugent has stated that he didn’t deny the coronavirus’ validity: “Saying that I claimed COVID-19 was a hoax, false,” the musician asserted in one other Fb Reside. “We have now precise footage of me saying … in fact, there is a Chinese language virus. Howdy? Who thinks that I claimed there isn’t any Chinese language — there is a Chinese language virus, they name it COVID-19. I am nicely conscious of that.”
Catch Kimmel’s Nugent bit at concerning the 10:50 mark within the beneath video.
