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On 14 March 2017, two days after the release of Lavender, a controversial, clown-themed music video in which Snoop Dogg is seen firing a prank Bang! flag gun at a clown decked out to resemble President Trump, several unreliable web sites posted an article bearing the false claim that the rapper was arrested by the Secret Service for making violent threats against the president: The quote, along with the claim that Snoop Dogg was arrested for making the statement, was entirely fabricated, however. It originated on the fake news web site TheLastLineOfDefense.org, which describes its own content as satirical: The intent of the article, presumably, was to spoof expressions of outrage that greeted the video, including that of President Trump himself (who once joked at a campaign event that he could shoot somebody and still not lose voters): The video was also blasted by Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Florida), according to a TMZ report cited in Billboard: In his own remarks to Billboard, Snoop Dogg insisted he wasn't looking for controversy, though did he set out to make a statement: Snoop Dogg's video for Lavender, directed by Jesse Wellens, can be viewed in its entirety via YouTube:
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