In what might be one of the most surreal political flexes of the year, Donald Trump has dropped a campaign-style video on Truth Social that somehow mashes up hardline immigration policy with West Coast gangsta rap. Yes, really.
The video, shared late Friday night, features a clip from Trump’s March address to a joint session of Congress—his first since starting his second term. “The media and our friends in the Democrat Party kept saying we needed new legislation – ‘we must have legislation to secure the border’ – but it turned out that all we really needed was a new president!” Trump declares in the clip. Cue the beat.
As Republican lawmakers rise to their feet in raucous applause, the unmistakable muted guitar riff of Dr. Dre’s “The Next Episode” drops. Yes, that song—the one featuring Snoop Dogg and Nate Dogg, with the iconic “smoke weed everyday” line capping it off. The juxtaposition is jarring. Think C-SPAN meets Death Row Records.
The song has racked up over 1.2 billion plays on Spotify. It’s not exactly the go-to soundtrack for a border policy victory lap. But Trump isn’t known for playing by the book—or for asking permission, for that matter. Dr. Dre previously fired off a cease-and-desist letter to Marjorie Taylor Greene for using his track “Still D.R.E.” in a promotional video. No word yet on whether he plans to do the same here, but given his past distaste for MAGA branding his music, it wouldn’t be shocking.
And then there’s Snoop Dogg, who once depicted Trump as a clown and staged a mock shooting of him in a 2017 video. He spent years torching Trump online, calling him a “f—— weirdo” and a “racist.” But more recently, the rapper’s tone has shifted. Trump pardoned Michael Harris, co-founder of Death Row Records, back in 2021. That move didn’t go unnoticed.
By 2024, Snoop was publicly changing his tune, saying Trump “has done only great things for me.” In 2025, he even performed at Trump’s inauguration-adjacent “Crypto Ball,” a decision that drew sharp backlash from fans accusing him of abandoning his principles for a paycheck.
Snoop’s response? Classic Snoop. “I don’t represent the Republican Party, I don’t represent the Democratic Party, I represent the mother f—— Gangsta Party.”
The video, as strange as it is, seems to serve a clear purpose: Trump wants credit for “fixing” the border without passing new laws—and he wants to frame it like a mic drop moment. Using a rap anthem associated with rebellion and West Coast street culture to celebrate a crackdown on immigration isn’t just tone-deaf—it’s like political cosplay with a boombox. (See it below.)
Here’s the clip:
New media post from Donald J. Trump
(TS: 11 Oct 00:27 ET) pic.twitter.com/Ta0HYQhnep
— Trump Truth Social Posts On X (@TrumpTruthOnX) October 11, 2025
