Snoop Dogg has said that he has ‘nothing but love and respect’ for Donald Trump – despite hurling a barrage of insults at the former president over the last few years.
The iconic Drop It Like It’s Hot rapper, 52, said that the 2024 Republican hopeful has never done anything wrong to him and sung his praises in a new interview.
He did not go as far as endorsing him, but Snoop said Trump did ‘great things’ when he pardoned one of his friends, Michael Harris, from his prison sentence in 2021.
This is despite Snoop previously parodying Trump’s assassination in his music videos, telling people to not vote for him, calling his fans ‘stupid motherf***ers,’ and saying he’s a ‘racist, f**king clown president’ during his last tenure.
Snoop, born Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr., seems to have turned over a new leaf.
The iconic Drop It Like It’s Hot rapper, 52, said that the 2024 Republican hopeful has never done anything wrong to him and sung his praises in a new interview. They are pictured in 2011
Snoop Dogg spoofs a presidential assassination in his new video Lavender, fake shooting a clown Donald Trump character in 2017
Speaking to the Sunday Times, Snoop said: ‘Donald Trump? He ain’t done nothing wrong to me.
‘He has done only great things for me. He pardoned Michael Harris.
‘So I have nothing but love and respect for Donald Trump.’
In 2021, the rap mogul saluted the ‘great work’ Trump and his administration did ‘on the way out’ after he learned that cocaine kingpin Michael ‘Harry O’ Harris was pardoned.
Snoop said at the time: ‘That’s great work for the president and his team on the way out. They did some great work while they was in there and they did some great work on their way out. Let them know that I love what they did.’
He continued: ‘It is amazing what the work of God can actually bring to life to make people understand that there is a God.’
Snoop urged furloughed government workers not to vote for Trump again because ‘he doesn’t give a f*** about y’all’ in a profane rant against the President in 2019
Speaking to the Sunday Times, Snoop said: ‘Donald Trump? He ain’t done nothing wrong to me. ‘He has done only great things for me. He pardoned Michael Harris. So I have nothing but love and respect for Donald Trump’
Back in 2011, Snoop Dogg made a joke about Trump one day running for president after Barack Obama’s tenure, saying: ‘Why not? It wouldn’t be the first time you’d pushed a black family out of their home.’
Snoop has had a somewhat fraught public relationship with the former president. He has exclaimed ‘f**k Trump’ multiple times, and even parodied his assassination.
In January 2019, posting a video to his Instagram, the Doggfather urged government employees not to vote for Trump because ‘he doesn’t give a f*** about y’all.’
He also used the profanity-laced message to attack Trump has his supporters directly, saying: ‘F*** him too, and f*** everybody down with Donald Trump.’
Wearing a blue hat with the slogan Make America Snow Again on the front – a play on Trump’s election slogan and the Jeezy song Snow Season – he says: ‘I just wanna say this real quick on the political s***.
‘All you people for the federal government that are not getting paid right now, ain’t no f***ing way in the world you can vote for Donald Trump when he comes back up again.
‘If ya’ll do vote for him, y’all some stupid motherf***ers, I’m saying that to y’all early.’
Somewhat of a fate predictor, Trump has gone on to run again for President – and with his wins in Iowa and New Hampshire, the likelihood that he’ll be on the Republican ticket is becoming more and more plausible.
In September 2018 during a podcast interview, Snoop made his feelings known, saying a big ‘f*** you’ to Donald Trump along with a ‘f*** you’ to his supporter Kanye West.
Snoop said of Kanye: ‘Well you need to know that a lot of your fans is racist. Ain’t no f***** way around it.
‘I tell ’em straight up muthaf****. If you like that n**** [Trump] you muthaf*****’ racist. F*** you and f*** him. Now what?’ the rapper said.
‘N**** he drew the lines. He drew the muthaf*****’ lines. Before him there were no lines,’ Snoop continued.
In March 2017, Snoop Dogg parodied a presidential assassination in his new music video for his album Lavender.
In the climactic scene the rapper takes out a fake gun and points it towards a clown-like president Donald Trump character with painted orange face.
The clip focused on current events at the time, including a parody version of Trump named Ronald Klump.
In November 2017, for a second time that year, Snoop Dogg also alluded to the assassination of Donald Trump.
The rapper posted an image of the cover of his latest album, Make America Crip Again, on his Instagram account.
The image showed Snoop Dogg standing over a dead body covered with an American flag.
The body was fitted with a toe tag that reads ‘Trump.’
Snoop said at the time: ‘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.’