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Charlie Daniels has gone viral.

With a new smash hit song? Not exactly.

The 79-year old country music legend stars in a new clip, released online by the National Rifle Association, in which Daniels issues a warning to “the ayatollahs of Iran and every terrorist you enable.” 

He says some really mean things about President Barack Obama and other well-educated people in the process.

“You might’ve met our fresh-faced, flower-child president and his weak-kneed Ivy League friends, but you haven’t met America,” says the singer, likely best known for the track “The Devil Went Down To Georgia."

The footage is part of an ongoing series called “Freedom’s Safest Place," which is mostly a collection of grievances against politicians in general … and the Obama White House in particular.

The absence of firm leadership in our executive branch shouldn’t fool the enemies of America into thinking that our nation is weak, reads the official YouTube caption to the video.

Our true strength lies in the firm hands and ready steel of millions of proud, hard-working men and women.

We are the NRA, and we are Freedom’s Safest Place.

Daniels, meanwhile, continues, addressing enemies of the country:

"You haven’t met the heartland or the people who will defend this nation with their bloody, calloused bare hands, if that’s what it takes.

"You haven’t met the steelworkers and the hard-rock miners or the swamp folks in Cajun country who can wrestle a full-grown gator out of the water.

"You haven’t met the farmers, the cowboys, the loggers and the truck drivers.

"You don’t know the mountain men who live off the land or the brave cops who fight the good fight in the urban war zones."

Watch Daniels go off on the current administration and many others below: