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In her anti-Trump speech at the Golden Globes in January, Meryl Streep quoted the late Carrie Fisher when she said “take your broken heart, make it into art”.
Snoop Dogg might be one of the first to take her advice, releasing a politically charged music video depicting Donald Trump as a clown, and even pointing a gun at him.
A clown named ‘Ronald Klump’ with bright orange skin and wearing a blonde toupee is shown speaking to media in the ‘Clown House’, and is later seen having a gun pointed at him by Snoop. Ronald Klump, clearly a clown parody of the US president, is also shown wrapped in chains.
The clip for Lavender, a remix of a track by BadBadNotGood and Kaytranada which will feature on Snoop’s next album also addresses the spate of incidents last year where police shot civilians in America, such as Philandro Castile who was killed by an officer in Minnesota in July with his girlfriend and her four-year-old daughter in the car. In Snoop’s video an ordinary man is pulled over by a police officer and shot, which a bystander films and posts on ‘Clown Tube’.
Image: Donald Trump is portrayed as a clown in Snoop Dogg’s new music video
The video depicts the attempted assassination of a sitting US president, so it’s unlikely to go down well with government officials or Trump supporters. But the rapper insists he’s not trying to be controversial, only true to what he sees happening in America right now, as he told Billboard.
“[I wanted to make] a song that was not controversial but real – real to the voice of the people who don’t have a voice.”
He also explained his main grievances with Trump and the US government.
“The [travel] ban that this motherf***** tried to put up; him winning the presidency; police being able to kill motherf****** and get away with it; people being in jail for weed for 20, 30 years …”
“It’s a lot of clown shit 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.”
Watch below – and it should come as no surprise since it’s a Snoop Dogg song that the video contains numerous profanities.
