I think Donald Trump really likes Twitter. He just loves a tweet. Most of his 140 character outbursts about fake news, how awful Obamacare was (it wasn’t) and Meryl Streep’s amazing Golden Globes speech are facepalm inducing at the least. But today we’re talking about Snoop Dogg. Or rather, Donald Trump has been tweeting about Snoop Dogg. No, really.
Now, they’re probably two names you didn’t expect to crop up in the same sentence, but since the release of Snoop’s latest music video (yes, he’s still making music apparently) Trump's feathers have been a little bit ruffled. The video to the ‘Lavender’ remix features a clown character called Ronald *(we see what you did there, *Snoop) Klump , who in a parody press conference scene apparently wants to ‘deport all Doggs’. The song pretty poignantly comments on the political situation over in the states. In an interview with Billboard, Snoop said he was: ‘making a song that was not controversial but real -- real to the voice of the people who don’t have a voice.’
Towards the end of the video though, Snoop aims a fake gun at Ronald Klump. He doesn’t kill the parody President, but obviously Donald 'Easy D' Trump didn't take the pretend shooting of a creepily accurate parody of himself too lightly.
Trump tweeted, first from his POTUS and then from his personal account eight minutes later: ‘Can you imagine what the outcry would be if @SnoopDogg, failing career and all, had aimed and fired a gun at President Obama? Jail time!’
Trump's Lawyer, Michael Cohen told TMZ that Snoop should apologise for the video and that he was 'shocked' when he saw it.
He said: 'We've had presidents assassinated before in this country, so anything like that is something people should be really careful about [...] because the wrong person sees that and gets the wrong idea and you could have a real problem'. The last thing I'd want to suggest is that assassination is in any way, shape or form okay. Of course now. But is it just me, or would Cohen's argument be a whole lot more convincing if much of Trump's presidential campaign couldn't be interpreted as inciteful of violence and hatred? Just a thought.
For the record, Snoop hasn't intended for any sort of response to his song all the video though. He said: ‘When I be putting shit out, I don’t ever expect or look for a reaction. I just put it out because I feel like it’s something that’s missing’
‘Any time I drop something, I’m trying to fill in a void’, he added. I feel like it’s a lot of people making cool records, having fun, partying, but nobody’s dealing with the real issue with this f**_ing clown as President. And the sh_t that we dealing with out here, so I just wanted to take time out to push pause on a party record and make one of these records for the time being.’
And while he hasn't responded to Trump on Twitter, Snoop did post this video to Instagram a few hours after Trump slid into his mentions. He said: ‘They all want to ask me questions and interview me but guess what, I’ve got nothing to say, mate.’
We'll be honest, we're not too sure where the Austrailian accent came from, but that grin though.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.