POTUS lawyer calls out Snoop Dogg's 'disgraceful' music video

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Trump's lawyer calls out Snoop Dogg's 'disgraceful' music video in which a Trump-like clown is assassinated as the Secret Service says it is 'aware' of the footage

• Snoop Dogg released a music video for his song 'Lavender' on Sunday
• In the video he shoots a clown-like character that looks like Donald Trump
• Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen said this was 'disgraceful' and that he thought Snoop was 'better than that'
• Follows report that Secret Service agents are 'aware' of the video
• Marco Rubio said yesterday that 'Snoop shouldn't have done that'

Read more:

• Snoop Dogg, Director Talks 'Lavender' Music Video Parodying Trump | Billboard
• Sen. Marco Rubio Warns Snoop Dogg About Mock Assassination Music Vid | TMZ.com
• Donald Trump's Lawyer Says Snoop Should Be Ashamed | TMZ.com
• Snoop Dogg's Trump Gun Vid On Secret Service's Radar | TMZ.com

 

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Donald Trump's lawyer has sounded off on a new music video from rapper Snoop Dogg in which he parodies an assassination of Donald Trump.
In the climactic scene of the 'Lavender' video, the 45-year-old rapper takes out a fake gun and points it towards a clown resembling the president with a painted orange face.
Michael Cohen told TMZ: 'It's totally disgraceful. Snoop owes the president an apology.
'There's absolutely nothing funny about an assassination attempt on a president, and I'm really shocked at him, because I thought he was better than that.'

 

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Secret Service agents said they are 'aware' of Snoop Dogg's music video for his song, 'Lavender,' in which he shoots a clown character that appears to parody Donald Trump

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Donald Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, called the video 'disgraceful' and said: 'Shame on you, Snoop. You should be better than that'

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Cohen said a mock assassination, pictured, did not seem to have 'artistic value' and that Snoop must 'respect the office of the presidency.' In the video, the Trump character survives following the shooting

Cohen's comments come as Secret Service agents also told TMZ that they are 'aware' of the video.
The Secret Service response is similar to the one given after Madonna's threat to blow up the White House while speaking at a Women's March event the day after Trump's inauguration.
Cohen said he did not understand 'the artistic value' of the mock assassination and elaborated: 'If you have a protest, that's fine, make your point.
'But it should never be, he has to learn that they need to respect the office of the presidency.'

 

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In the video, the Donald Trump-like character is called 'Ronald Klump' and at one point he holds a press conference

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During the press conference, Klump says he wants to deport 'all doggs.' Trump's new immigration order is expected to take effect on March 16



He added that Snoop could join his diversity coalition or 'other things' in order to help 'inner cities' with 'the violence and the drugs' and concluded: 'Shame on you, Snoop.
'You should be better than that.'
Republican Senator and supposed West Coast Rap supporter Marco Rubio told TMZ while at Reagan National Airport on Monday that he disagreed with Snoop's video.
Snoop Dogg was born and raised in Long Beach, California.
'Snoop shouldn't have done that. We've had presidents assassinated before in this country so anything like that is something people should be very careful about,' Rubio said.
He said people can disagree with policy but if the wrong person sees that and 'gets the wrong idea you can have a real problem.'

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Visual metaphors: Snoop Dogg said of the president: 'It’s a lot of clown sh** going on that we could just sit and talk on the phone all day about'

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Snoop Dogg appeared in the clip co-directed by Jesse Wellens and James DeFina. Snoop said 'Lavender' will be featured on his forthcoming album

 

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The clip, which dropped Sunday and is co-directed by Jesse Wellens and James DeFina, focuses on current events including a parody version of Trump named Ronald Klump.
At one point Clown-in-Chief Klump holds a press conference to announce the deportation of all dogs, spelled 'doggs.'
Justified actor Michael Rapaport also stars in the video as a suburban clown father who gets stopped by the clown police and shot with a glitter gun.
This was a reference last year's killing of Philando Castile, whose shooting by a Minnesota police officer during a traffic stop was live-streamed by Castile's girlfriend.
'It's all on camera and they still don't believe you / Clownin' around -- don't come your clown a** 'round here, n***a,' Snoop Dogg raps in 'Lavender,' his take on an instrumental track by Canadian group BadBadNotGood.
The message was clear from the musician as he spoke to Billboard about his thoughts on the president.
Snoop said: '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**king clown as president, and the sh** that we dealing with out here, so I wanted to take time out to push pause on a party record and make one of these records for the time being.'

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Michael Rapaport also stars in the video as a suburban clown father who, while on the way to work, is stopped by police and is shot by a glitter gun

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The video's other shooting referenced last year's killing of Philando Castile, whose shooting by a Minnesota police officer during a traffic stop was live-streamed by Castile's girlfriend

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The video concludes with Snoop and others smoking as the Trump-like character, who apparently survives a shot to the head, is left confused and in chains

The artist explained what motivated him when he was writing the track.
'Making a song that was not controversial but real -- real to the voice of the people who don’t have a voice. It’s not like [Jesse] told me to make a record to express what I’m expressing on the song, but there were certain things that he said that brought that feeling, to make me want to express that when I was writing.'
But the hip hop star said he's not looking for any kind of reaction for the video.
'When I be putting sh** 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.'
The star also listed his grievances with the president as he concluded: 'It’s a lot of clown sh** going on that we could just sit and talk on the phone all day about, but it’s a few issues that we really wanted to lock into [for the video] like police, the president and just life in general.'
Lavender will be on Snoop's forthcoming album, the follow-up to 2015's Coolaid.

 

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Snoop Dogg, pictured at the All Def Movie Awards in Los Angeles this past February, is a 45-year-old rapper who was born and raised in Long Beach, California


Read more:

• Snoop Dogg, Director Talks 'Lavender' Music Video Parodying Trump | Billboard
• Sen. Marco Rubio Warns Snoop Dogg About Mock Assassination Music Vid | TMZ.com
• Donald Trump's Lawyer Says Snoop Should Be Ashamed | TMZ.com
• Snoop Dogg's Trump Gun Vid On Secret Service's Radar | TMZ.com

 

[superbeets]

PoopDog deserves a noose!

 

[THawk+]

You can take the piece of sh-it out of the hood but you can't take the hood of the piece of sh-it.

Guy is a gang member that made money rapping, everyone thinks he is something special.
He's nothing but a 2 bit ignorant hood rat.

 

[Albatross]

Hank Williams Jr got canned from MNF for saying a lot less about Obama.


Funny how the world works.

 

[Willie99]

You can take the piece of sh-it out of the hood but you can't take the hood of the piece of sh-it.

Guy is a gang member that made money rapping, everyone thinks he is something special.
He's nothing but a 2 bit ignorant hood rat.

QFT

Think he even got into some sort of fight with his son's football coach

He's living the life of "black privilege", where rules don't apply

 

[Dave007inVegas]

It seems to me that all he needs to do is apologize and everyone will be fine with it.
Isn't that the way it works nowadays?

 

[StevieRay]

Hank Williams Jr got canned from MNF for saying a lot less about Obama.


Funny how the world works.

Heck yea. Whisky bent and Hell bound

 

[SgtLanquel]

Would love to get stoned with Snoop and Martha Stewart..two American icons

 

[SgtLanquel]

Would also burn one with Hank Jr......on Willie's bus....too bad Toby Keith can't join us

 

[TomGshotput]

PoopDog deserves a noose!

Sounds like you two have very similar feelings about how to best express yourself.

Think he even got into some sort of fight with his son's football coach

I think you fell into the all blacks are the same trap. We all do at times

 

[StevieRay]

If a white person did that last year to Obama the riots , outrage, and media coverage would have been unbelievable

 

[thecentaur]

Didn't one of Snoop Dungg's relatives tweet for Trump to STFU or he would pimp out his wife? Animals. These ghetto shenanigans don't deserve any more scrutiny than a monkey at the zoo flinging his poo