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So, Ted Nugent says it's time to tone down the rhetoric and is calling for "civility."

Nugent spent eight years calling President Obama a "chimpanzee," "subhuman" and other disgusting things. He also told him to "suck on my machine gun."

Now that Donald Trump is president, Nugent has decided it is time to "reach out across the aisle." I wonder if that time would be now if Hillary Clinton were president, or would we have to wait for another hapless Republican president before Nugent decided it was time to tone it down?

The only people who would believe his bogus outpouring of concern about the heated rhetoric are the 35 percent who support Trump no matter how immoral or incompetent he continues to prove himself to be.

Terry Allen

Sandy