National Rifle Association board member Ted Nugent, who has a long history of violent and hateful rhetoric, boasted in a blog post about his April 19 dinner with President Donald Trump at the White House.

Nugent and his wife attended the dinner along with former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and musician Kid Rock. According to pictures Palin posted on her social media account, Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner also met with the group in the Oval Office during their visit. Nugent was an early and vocal supporter of then-candidate Trump, campaigning for him in Michigan and backing his widely panned Muslim ban.

In an April 20 blog post, Nugent praised the meeting and wrote, “Donald J. Trump as President of the United States is proof positive that I’m not alone.” Nugent called himself a “genuine take-no-crap representative of our beloved deerhunting lifestyle, gunrights and overall American freedom” and claimed that he spoke to Trump about “anti-science and anti-hunting laws”:

I am both proud and honored to bring my deeranddeerhunting.com BloodBrothers a soulful, Spirit of the Wild greetings and update from the President of the United States at the White House in Washington DC, where my lovely Queen of the Forest wife Shemane and I dined with President Trump along with the great Governor Sarah Palin and her daughter and friends, and our Michigan hunting BloodBrothers Bob “Kid Rock” Richie and his deadly fiance Audrey Berry, and of course a contingent of US Secret Service warriors just for good measure.

That is correct, you heard me right; deeranddeerhunting.com had a genuine take-no-crap representative of our beloved deerhunting lifestyle, gunrights and overall American freedom at the White house dinnertable with the POTUS. The WhackMaster was there all aglow with truth, logic and commonsense oozing from every pore.

And what a lovely evening it was.

With sons who hunt, the President is very aware of the misguided, anti-science and anti-hunting laws and regulations perpetrated by power abusing bureaucrats infesting our states and nation. I would say that the prognosis for hunter’s rights has never been better for the future of hunting, fishing and trapping in America, I assure you.

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We didn’t actually confirm that I will be organizing annual deerhunts at Camp David, but he is acutely aware of “wise-use” management versus “politically correct misuses” and vows to work diligently to make it right.

We discussed various quality of life issues and how entrenched status quo political correctness has wrecked everything it has touched and how his administration is focused and dedicated to get back to the US Constitutional basics of government of, by and for the people.

President Trump summed it up when he humbly and proudly stated that he works for “we the people” and he will not let us down.

When his administration’s battlecry is “America first” you know we are on the right track after a long and embarrassing disconnect by the political posers who forgot they worked for us instead of vice versa.

We discussed specifically the counterproductive follies of the Endangered Species Act and the Environmental Protection Agency, as well as the US Fish & Wildlife Service, BLM and other out of control bureaucracies.

All in all, Shemane and I were genuinely honored to break bread with the leader of the free world, and for the first time in many years I have a renewed level of positive excitement about the improved direction our country is now headed.

Nugent, who floated his own Senate run in 2018, has a well-established history of using inflammatory, misogynistic and racially insensitive rhetoric.

In 2014, he called then-President Barack Obama a “communist-nurtured subhuman mongrel.” In a January 2016 Facebook post, he called for Obama and then-presidential nominee Hillary Clinton to be “tried for treason & hung.” In February 2016, Nugent shared an anti-Semitic image on Facebook suggesting that Jews are behind a widespread conspiracy to enact gun control laws, and doubled down on hate speech that Jewish supporters of gun safety are actually “Nazis in disguise.” In a May 2016 Facebook post, Nugent shared a fake video depicting Clinton being graphically murdered by Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) with a handgun during a 2016 presidential primary debate, adding, “I got your gun control right here bitch” as his own comment.

While Trump is slated to speak at the NRA-ILA Leadership Forum this month, Nugent has been a fixture of the NRA's annual meeting, delivering talks in 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016. During his speech at the 2015 meeting, Nugent talked about shooting then-Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV), called the former president “Osama Obama,” and offered to pilot a boat ride to take Obama back to Kenya. At the 2012 meeting, Nugent set in motion a visit from the Secret Service after telling NRA members that he would be “dead or in jail” if Obama was re-elected president.