Trump surrogate furious over Jay Z's glorification of 'Mazel Tov cocktails'
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Power couple Jay Z and Beyoncé campaigned for Hillary Clinton on Friday, and in the ensuing days Donald Trump's camp has worked itself into a frenzy slamming Jay Z's hip hop lyrics and "anti-police" messages.
"[Jay Z] used language last night that was so bad, and then Hillary said, 'I did not like Donald Trump's lewd language.' My lewd language?" Trump said at an opposing rally Friday. "I've never said what he said in my life! But that shows you the phoniness of politicians."
Scottie Nell Hughes, a Trump surrogate, also tried to blast Jay Z, although her efforts were a little more, well, inaccurate. "One of [Jay Z's] main videos starts off with a crowd throwing Mazel Tov cocktails at the police," she told CNN on Sunday night.
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It's unclear what video she's talking about — Jay Z's collaboration with Kanye West, "No Church in the Wild," begins with a Molotov cocktail being thrown, but that doesn't sound nearly as delicious as the video Hughes watched.
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