Iconic rapper Snoop Dogg may have expressed biting insults at former President Donald Trump over the years, but it doesn’t mean he doesn’t “love and respect” him.
In a recent interview, the 52-year-old rap star whose real name is Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr., raised eyebrows with words praising the former president despite once having done a music video in which he portrayed a mock assassination of him.
“Donald Trump? He ain’t done nothing wrong to me,” he told The Times in an interview published Sunday.
“nothing but love and respect” for Donald Trump.”
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“He has done only great things for me. He pardoned Michael Harris,” Snoop Dogg continued, referring to his friend, Death Row Records co-founder Michael “Harry O” Harris, who was pardoned by Trump near the end of his term. Harris had been convicted of attempted murder.
“I have nothing but love and respect for Donald Trump.” Snoop Dogg said.
The rapper has repeatedly hurled profane insults at Trump over the years, telling government employees not to vote for him in a January 2019 message on Instagram.
“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,” he said at the time. “If ya’ll do vote for him, y’all some stupid motherf***ers, I’m saying that to y’all early.”
In his video for “Lavender” in 2017, Snoop Dogg mocked shooting “Ronald Klump” and got a response from the then-president on what was Twitter.
Can you imagine what the outcry would be if @SnoopDogg, failing career and all, had aimed and fired the gun at President Obama? Jail time!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 15, 2017
Despite all his previous hostility toward Trump, the artist, who is now even friends with lifestyle guru Martha Stewart, seemed to change his tune with the pardon of Harris.
“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,” he said in 2021.
“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.”
