We laugh at his buffoonish blather even though his base thinks we’re triggered(sic). Trump’s reckless ignorance may result in the death of many Americans. The examples he uses makes the presidency even more farcical. One hopes that a generation will not be lost because of the damage done.
His appropriation of culture lacks anything other than the crudest understanding of America, which sadly makes him intelligible to his base.
Entitled “the Snake,” the Al Wilson song serves as a cautionary tale about the danger of immigrants for Mr Trump. It features a woman who foolishly embraces a dangerous predator.
Use of the song by Trump has morphed over time, however. Initially, Trump read the story as an attack against accepting Syrian refugees, who he claimed included terrorists hellbent on entering the United States.
But Trump, like he did on Friday, later began using the story to attack all immigrants.
In an MSNBC interview on Sunday, in response to Trump’s storytelling moment at CPAC, Maggie Brown said: “He’s twisting Oscar’s meaning to serve his own campaign and climate of intolerance and hate, which is the opposite of what the original author, Oscar Brown Jr., intended.”
During the 2016 campaign, Africa Brown said in an interview with CBC Radio-Canada, that a wiser reading of her father’s poem would identify Trump as the danger. “(Trump) would be the sly one that we would be taking in … the venom we see being spewed right now … the hatred and the bad feelings it’s spurring … I’m sure in my father’s opinion, those things are poisonous to a society.”
Brown, who died in 2005, wrote it in 1963 based on The Farmer and the Viper, one of Aesop's fables. The moral of the story is that kindness can be betrayed.
Donald Trump has spent most of his adult life telling himself a story about a brave, ruthless and fearsome man named "Donald Trump." (CNN)