Some background on “The Snake.”
During his campaign rallies, Trump from time-to-time would read to his red caps a xenophobic poem called “The Snake,” about an injured snake who was brought in by a woman at a nearby home to heal and get better. When the snake fully healed, the snake bit and killed the woman with his venom and mocked her, as she died, for letting such a dangerous snake into her home in the first place. During his reading, Trump not so subtly analogized the snake to immigrants, and particularly to Mexican immigrants, to tell his audience that by allowing immigrants into the United States, like the snake, they would kill Americans.
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