While Snoop supports him, the East Coast native Trump is killing us quietly with his laws
Trump’s executive order withdraws U.S. from the World Health Organization but withdraws federal rule phasing out menthol cigarettes
I’m not a fan of Snoop Dogg, so I shrugged when he agreed to perform at the pre-Inaugural event for Donald Trump. There’s nothing cute to me about a grown man putting on pimp paraphernalia or telling any black woman “back off, bitch, before we come get you.” (Salute to former United States National Security Adviser Susan Rice for reminding him that he’d stand against “an army.” But it was wild to me that he even got that mad over a question Gayle King asked that was in alignment with her job! Journalists are not hired to be your BFFs.)
But when it comes to rappers supporting Trump, Nelly, on the other hand, broke the hip-hop part of my heart because I’ve been a 25-year fan of his. As a fan, I’m still salty about his performance. Snoop (and the other rappers at the 2025 inaugural events who aren’t worth mentioning by name)? Meh.
Still, 2017 Snoop Dogg is perplexing because, even for a non-fan, you have to wonder what the hell changed. In a social media video a few years back, he said, “So ain’t no one gonna perform for Donald Trump, huh? Which one of you jigaboo ass niggas gone be the first one to do it. I’m waiting … I’m gonna roast the fuck out of one of you Uncle Tom ass niggas for doing it.”
And now he’s the Uncle Ruckus he was talking about. Meanwhile, I’m left wondering if Snoop fans who are still grudgingly defending the West Coast rapper realize there’s another kind of East Coast-West Coast beef going on, and it involves a New Yorker trying to kill damn near everybody, specifically black people.
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For those of you who didn’t pay attention to almost 100 executive orders that Trump signed off on less than a handful of days ago, one of those was to part ways with the World Health Organization (WHO), which did an outstanding job of trying desperately to keep Americans informed of the COVID-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, Trump’s White House pretty much blames WHO for not being xenophobic and dismissing the results of an entire health pandemic altogether — including 1,216,305 deaths since January 1, 2020 and 7,083,246 deaths worldwide from coronavirus.
Now what would make a president get this upset about a health organization? Let’s skip past his “concepts of a plan” for a better health insurance package than the Affordable Care Act. Why is there so much beef with health education altogether?
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Snoop Dogg is backing the same guy who described his own state as one of many “blood-soaked streets” in “cesspool cities.” This is the same guy who vowed to execute those convicted of selling drugs. Imagine someone who smokes weed as much as Snoop Dogg being OK with a president who wants those “caught selling drugs to receive the death penalty for their heinous acts.” Where is he going to get his weed from then? Because I don’t see any separation between marijuana and crack cocaine in Trump’s statements.
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And in one of the more curious actions Trump has taken since he’s returned to office is doing away with the menthol ban — the same cigarette ban that markets flavored tobacco to young, black people, who are the vulnerable to lung cancer. African-Americans are 6% more likely to be diagnosed with tobacco-related dancer and 17% more likely to die from it. Black men are also 15% more likely to develop and 18% more likely to die from lung cancer than their white counterparts.
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It hasn’t even been a week. Besides trying to make every federal diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) employee lose their jobs on this temporary paid leave executive order, it appears the president Snoop was dancing and rapping for is trying everything possible to make sure minorities are unemployed and imprisoned but can definitely get ahold of a pack of smokes. Drugs like weed though? To the death chamber they go. Smoke on, Snoop, smoke on.
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