Trump under fire for racially-charged tweets against congresswomen

[Rev. Rye]

Gotta love the Snake metaphor. The lack of self-awareness that Trump exhibited when he latched onto a song that so fits his agenda and MO and deciding that it's immigrants who are the snake (and not him) is simply epic. If I had the video and audio editing skills (and the time to research potential clips), I'd make a music video of "The Snake" and cover it in some of Trump's more disgraceful moments (which, that said, may not lend themselves to being reduced to silent video clips) and when the time comes for Johnny Rivers to sing "You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in," the song stops and we hear Trump's own voice saying those words.

"Let me in, tender woman, let me in, said the snake..."  I'm familiar with that song, because my mother listened to that sort of tuneage when I was a kid. I hated it.

Full disclosure, I think I only discovered the song about a year ago, around the same time I saw Johnny Rivers live with Jimmy Webb. Then I found out about Trump's appropriation of the song, and how much it fit, not the immigrants he derided, but himself.