‘The View’ Audience Gasps After Co-Host Calls Snoop Dogg ‘Trained Seal’ For Inauguration Performance
President Donald Trump’s second inauguration was much different than the first, in part due to the much higher number of celebrities who showed up to support him.
A number of artists agreed to perform at related ceremonies in D.C. earlier this week, including a rapper who was once one of Trump’s most ardent critics.
Snoop Dogg received a great deal of backlash from Trump-bashing sources far and wide, including “The View” co-host Ana Navarro.
According to TheBlaze:
Navarro criticized Snoop Dogg’s apparent shift in politics, given the rapper pretended to shoot a Trump clown in a 2017 music video — and prior to Trump’s first inauguration, Snoop Dogg promised on social media to ridicule anyone who performed at the ceremony: “I’m gonna roast the f*** out one of you Uncle Tom a** n***** for doing it.”
Navarro said during Tuesday’s episode of “The View” that “if you opposed and stood up against Trump in 2017, but you were there now. If you spoke up against Trump Jan. 7, 2021, but you were there now applauding him like a trained seal — Donald Trump has not changed, you’ve changed.”
Immediately after Navarro uttered the words “trained seal,” a few in the audience seemed to react with shock as a handful of “oooh” exclamations were audible. But despite the smattering of gasps, the audience roundly applauded Navarro after she was done speaking.
The social media reaction to Snoop’s change of heart was mixed:
This video is going viral again, after the public has mixed reactions of Rap Legend Snoop Dogg reportedly performing at President Trump’s inauguration. #TrumpInauguration #snoopdogg #MAGA pic.twitter.com/Amc8ko9DTl
— J. Cortes (@Jcortes3220) January 18, 2025
2019 Snoop Dogg: “ain’t no…. way in the world y’all could vote for Donald Trump when he come back up again”
2025 Snoop Dogg: pic.twitter.com/FPM8UIniwY
— Andrew Gordon (@accounting) January 19, 2025
Snoop said any Black artists that performed at Trump’s first inauguration was a “jiggaboo ass nigga” and now…
pic.twitter.com/yHxDhix3zf
— Loading… (@KirkWrites79) January 18, 2025
About a year ago, the rapper went public with his newfound respect for the president.
As The National Desk reported at the time:
Snoop Dogg, whose real name is Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr., declared he has “nothing but love and respect” for the GOP frontrunner.
“Donald Trump? He ain’t done nothing wrong to me,” Broadus Jr. told The Sunday Times. “He has done only great things for me. He pardoned Michael Harris.”
Harris co-founded Death Row Records alongside Broadus Jr., Dr. Dre and Suge Knight. Trump reduced Harris’s prison sentence after he served 30 years of a 25-years-to-life sentence for conspiracy to commit first-degree murder.
Broadus Jr. may endorse a candidate for the presidential election, adding he wants to see “what the people say” since “mixed views” exist.
Here’s a relevant clip of Navarro’s comments:
Did The View’s Ana Navarro just refer to black artists who now support Trump as “trained seals?” Can you imagine the media outrage if Trump referred to black Americans in such a manner? But if you’re on the left, racist name-calling is perfectly acceptable. pic.twitter.com/66jAw6vVuX
— Bill Mitchell (@mitchellvii) January 21, 2025
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