Trump Comes After Rachel Maddow AND Snoop Dog in This Morning’s Tweetfest

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President Trump started off his morning like he always does. First, he hits the alarm; then he grabs his phone and looks up the latest news; and finally, he tweets. This time about Rachel Maddow and Snoop Dog.

Trump mentioned a video that Snoop Dog put out, where the rapper is pointing a gun at a man dressed as a “Trump” clown (watch it HERE). The video was apparently inspired by the death of Philando Castile, and was made to be a statement about police brutality.

“Can you imagine what the outcry would be if @SnoopDogg, failing career and all, had aimed and fired the gun at President Obama? Jail time!” he wrote.

Trump’s lawyer, Michael Cohen, personally told TMZ: “There’s absolutely nothing funny about an assassination attempt on a president, and I’m really shocked at him because I thought he was better than that.”

Trump also went after Rachel Maddow for her tax expose last night: “Does anybody really believe that a reporter, who nobody ever heard of, ‘went to his mailbox’ and found my tax returns? NBC News [is] fake news!”

But David Cay Johnston, the investigative reporter who found the tax returns snapped back: