Sarah Palin, Ted Nugent and Kid Rock use White House visit to mock Clinton

Nugent celebrates ‘glowing all American over the top time’ with Donald Trump after Palin says she extended invitation to controversial musicians

Sarah Palin has finally made it to the Oval Office.

The former governor of Alaska and vice-presidential nominee visited Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday night, along with the controversial musicians Ted Nugent and Kid Rock.

The photos show the trio having a “glowing all American over the top” time, as Nugent described it on Facebook. They were accompanied by Nugent’s wife, Shemane Deziel, and Audrey Berry, Kid Rock’s fiancee.

In the photos she released on social media, Palin can be seen chatting with Jared Kushner, and looking at documents with Trump in the Oval Office.

“A great night at the White House!” Sarah Palin visits the White House.

In one photo, Palin can clearly be seen making a face as the trio pose mockingly in front of a portrait of the former first lady and erstwhile Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.

.@POTUS invited @SarahPalinUSA to dinner and told her to bring some friends pic.twitter.com/Okk6wVWpha

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) April 20, 2017

Palin, who served as a prominent surrogate during Trump’s presidential campaign, was not given a formal role in his administration. On her official website, she wrote that the president had invited her for dinner, and told her to bring some friends.

“Asked why I invited Kid Rock and Ted Nugent I joked, ‘Because Jesus was booked,’” she wrote.

Nugent has a history of making racist remarks and posting racist memes on his official social media accounts. In 1990, he defended South Africa’s apartheid rule by stating: “All men are not created equal.” More recently, Nugent was forced to apologize for an antisemitic Facebook post which featured photos of several prominent American Jewish politicians – including Michael Bloomberg and Chuck Schumer – with an Israeli flag superimposed on their faces. The image was headlined: “So who is really behind gun control?”

Nugent repeatedly attacked Barack Obama during his time in office, calling him a “subhuman mongrel” worthy of being “tried for treason & hung”. In 2007, he told concertgoers: “Obama, he’s a piece of shit. I told him to suck on my machine gun. Hey, Hillary [Clinton], you might want to ride one of these into the sunset, you worthless bitch.”

Kid Rock, meanwhile, has a history of posing with the Confederate flag.

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Amber Jamieson

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