Ted Turner’s Nazi Shame Exposed After Swastika Stunt

Turner, often called The Mouth of the South for his outspoken nature, made numerous adversaries by making controversial remarks about Jews and religion.

Porter Bibb, author of the biography Ted Turner: It Ain’t As Easy As It Looks, detailed how Turner taunted Jewish students during his college years.

As described by Bibb, who passed in 2025, Turner was expelled from Brown University for painting swastikas on Jewish students’ dorm room doors.

Furthermore, he donned a Ku Klux Klan mask and robe, although he was not anti-Black, according to Bibb.

Reporter Neal Travis recalled Turner’s poor behavior during America’s Cup sailing races, reflecting on Turner’s offensive jokes.

“Turner was a total embarrassment to the yachting establishment with his crude anti-Jewish jokes,” said Travis, who died in 2002.

“They offered to drag him out of post-race press conferences for fear of what he would say.”

In the late ’80s and early ’90s, Turner sparked outrage by labeling Christianity “a religion for losers” and dismissing the Ten Commandments as outdated.

Amid backlash, he transformed a service at the First Baptist Church of Woodstock, Ga., into a media spectacle to apologize to the congregation.

Following the September 11 attacks, Turner faced criticism for telling a Brown University audience that the 19 terrorists responsible “were very brave at the least.”