Hank Williams Jr has become the second musician in as many weeks to accuse Barack Obama of plotting to destroy the United States. Just days after Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine claimed Obama had “staged” this month’s shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin, Williams offered his own polemic against the US president, falsely accusing him of being a Muslim.

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The son of Hank Williams made his remarks during a recent performance at the Iowa State Fair. As the crowd chanted “USA! USA!”, Williams Jr grabbed the microphone, Metromix Des Moines reported, declaring: “We’ve got a Muslim president who hates farming, hates the military, hates the US and we hate him!” The comments were reportedly met with “loud and enthusiastic” cheers.

Williams, 63, lost his job at ESPN after comparing Obama to Adolf Hitler last October. He later apologised, calling it an “extreme … analogy”. “I have always respected the office of the president,” he said. When contacted this weekend, a spokesperson from Obama’s Iowa campaign office told Metromix: “That type of absurd nonsense doesn’t really deserve a response.”

Meanwhile, Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine, claims Obama is hiring assassins to help pass gun-control legislation. “My president is trying to pass a gun ban, so he’s staging all of these murders,” Mustaine said at a concert in Singapore. “Like the Fast and Furious thing down at the border, and Aurora, Colorado, all the people that were killed there and now the beautiful people at the Sikh temple … I don’t know where I’m gonna live if America keeps going the way it’s going because it looks like it’s turning into Nazi America.”

Earlier this year, Mustaine made it clear he is a birther, subscribing to the belief that Obama was not born in Hawaii, but in Kenya. “How come [Obama] was invisible until he became, uh, whatever he was in Illinois?” he said at the time. “They don’t have any record of him.”

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Correction: This headline originally attributed Dave Mustaine’s comment about Obama staging the Sikh shooting to Hank Williams Jr.