Ana Navarro Calls Snoop Dogg A ‘Trained Seal’ After Trump Inaugural Performance

“The View” host Ana Navarro referred to Snoop Dogg as a “trained seal” — after he opted to perform at one of President Donald Trump’s second inaugural events — during the talk show’s Tuesday broadcast.

Navarro, who self-identifies as a Republican despite showing unwavering support for former President Joe Biden and even hosting one night of the 2024 Democratic National Convention, named rapper Snoop Dogg specifically and suggested that because he had said different things about Trump in 2017, he was a hypocrite for changing his position some time in the last eight years.

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Ana Navarro calls black artists who performed at Trump's inauguration "trained seal[s]." pic.twitter.com/WrXWO6WaAw

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“The thing that really, I think, was spotlighting Snoop is because of the things that Snoop Dogg said ten days before the inaugural in 2017,” Navarro began. “And so look, if you opposed and stood up against Trump in 2017, but you were there now — if you spoke up against Trump January 7th, 2021, but you were there now, applauding him like a trained seal — Donald Trump has not changed, you’ve changed.”

Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin pointed out the fact that former President Barack Obama had attended the inauguration — although former First Lady Michelle Obama did not — along with former Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush and former First Ladies Hillary Clinton and Laura Bush. She argued that attacking the artists, who could simply want to be a part of such a celebrated American tradition regardless of their personal politics, was unfair — especially when politicians from both parties were in attendance.

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As Navarro noted, Snoop Dogg has said critical things about Trump in the past — but after Trump commuted the sentence of Death Row Records founder Michael “Harry-O” Harris in January of 2021, the rapper appears to have changed his tune.

“He has done only great things for me. He pardoned Michael Harris. So, I have nothing but love and respect for Donald Trump,” he said in January of 2024.