Trump spent the 3 last days of his presidency being mad at Snoop Dogg: report
Despite losing his bid for reelection and becoming the only president in history to be impeached twice, former President Donald Trump reportedly spent the waning days of his lame duck period determined to get back at rapper Snoop Dogg — who's real name is Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. — with a petty gesture.
Rolling Stone reported that Snoop Dogg had been lobbying the Trump administration to include his longtime friend and Death Row Records co-founder Michael "Harry-O" Harris in the final list of presidential pardons and commutations. Harris had been serving time in federal prison for roughly three decades on attempted murder and cocaine trafficking charges. Snoop Dogg was working with criminal justice reform advocate Alice Johnson (a former federal inmate who was also pardoned by Trump), who had been in talks with both Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner to make sure Harris was part of Trump's pardon list before he officially left office.
But less than two weeks after his supporters attacked the US Capitol in an attempt to disrupt Congress' certification of the Electoral College, Trump was brooding over Snoop Dogg's past comments criticizing him, and had taken Harris' name off of the pardon list out of spite, reportedly telling advisors, "well, f--- him," referring to Snoop.
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Snoop Dogg first criticized Trump in a music video in 2017, where he pointed a gun at a clown that resembled the 45th president of the United States. This prompted Trump to tweet, "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!"
Then in 2018, the acclaimed rapper tore into Trump again after he hosted rapper and producer Kanye West in the Oval Office, saying "I don’t give a f---, I tell ’em straight up, motherf---er: If you like that n----, you motherf---ing racist." According to Rolling Stone, Trump apparently googled Snoop Dogg's other critiques of Trump and became so incensed at the rapper's criticism that he instructed aides to remove Harris' name from the pardon and commutation list.
Snoop's attitude toward Trump had taken on a more mellow tone by late 2020 and early 2021, partly due to his some of the pardons he had previously issued. When he received word that Trump was planning on excluding Harry-O from his final pardon announcement, Dogg's team encouraged him to issue public statements praising Trump. While Snoop Dogg was apparently wary of appearing too positive on the outgoing president, he did record documentary footage thanking Trump for his efforts on criminal justice reform, which was then shown to the lame duck POTUS. This apparently satisfied Trump enough to put Harris back on the pardon list, which also included rappers Kodak Black and Lil Wayne, as well as former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon.
Earlier this year in an interview with British newspaper The Times, Snoop Dogg said he has "nothing but love and respect for Donald Trump." The former president included his remarks in an email to the media that assembled links indicating praise from other public figures.
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