Snoop Dogg Presents Controversial Video Against Donald Trump

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

For the video for his new song "Lavender," singer Snoop Dogg characterized President Donald Trump as a clown whom the rapper himself ends up shooting in the head - with a toy gun that drops a pennant with the word "BANG" written on it. at.

The plot of the video has been criticized on social networks and by politicians such as Senator Marco Rubio, who told Rolling Stone magazine: “In this country we have had presidents assassinated, so anything like that is something with which the people should be very careful. He added that he was not sure what Snoop Dogg was thinking when he made the video.

It begins in a city of clowns in which a character named Ronald Klump appears, who with his wide red tie, orange pompadour and dark suit is a clear parody of Trump. The first time it appears is on a television giving a press conference from the Clown House, or Casa de Payasos, in reference to the White House.

Afterward, the character appears with his hands up as Snoop Dogg targets him with a dummy pistol and shoots. As Snoop Dogg told Billboard magazine, his idea in making this video "was not to make a controversial song, but real-real for … people who have no voice."

He also explained that although there are many albums coming out to the market, "no one is dealing with the real problem with this (explicit language) clown as president."

The video clip, directed by Jesse Wellens, also touches on the racial issues that have rocked the country in recent years, as it refers to the case of Philando Castile, the young African-American from Minnesota who was shot dead by a police officer in his vehicle in front of his girlfriend.