When Lupe Fiasco dropped “Words I Never Said,” the first single from his Lasers album, the Chi-Town rapper went straight into politics, with “Gaza strip was getting bombed/ Obama didn’t say shit/ That’s why I ain’t vote for him/ next one either.” The rest of his album proved to be a less politically-charged, but his interviews have picked up where that song left off. Last night on CBS’s What’s Trending, Lupe let loose one particular line that commanded a bit of attention.

In response to a query about his “politically charged” music, Lupe had this to say:

“To me, the biggest terrorist is Obama in the United States of America. I’m trying to fight the terrorism that’s actually causing the other forms of terrorism. The root cause of terrorism is the stuff the U.S. government allows to happen and the foreign policies that we have in place in different countries that inspire people to become terrorists.”

Granted, Lupe’s anti-government stance is nothing new, and he does make some valuable points—during a recent Colbert appearance he encouraged everyone to “always criticize power”—but was his choice of words a little distasteful?

In terms of suggestions for fixing the problem, he had this to add: “No, I don’t vote. I don’t get involved in politics. It’s meaningless. If I’m going to say I stand behind this person and write on a piece of paper that says, ‘Yeah, I stand for this person,’ then I have to take responsibility for everything he does cause that’s just who I am as a human being. So politicians aren’t going to do that because I don’t want you to bomb some village in the middle of nowhere.”

Here’s a guy who got caught up in so much red tape with Atlantic Records that he contemplated suicide and almost quit the business entirely. It’s interesting, then, that his hatred seems to fall so squarely on Obama, despite the run-a-round politics and red tape that’s endemic in any government.