Trump's Snake Poem Is Really About Him | NYT Opinion

Dating back to his days on the campaign trail, President Trump has often recited a poem called “The Snake,” as a warning about the dangers of welcoming refugees and immigrants into the country. In the Video Op-Ed above, I show how the parable is much more instructive when applied to Trump’s political rise. From his racist birther conspiracy theory to being forced to pay $2 million for using his charity for his own political gain, anyone paying close attention knew the kind of president he would be.

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[Jyshrii]

"When someone tells you who he is, you should believe him."

[blehhem]

This island surrounded by water big water sounds like something Patrick from Spongebob would say.

[clair]

" Said the reptile with a grin ..."

[edvallecorse]

ALL of America should have realized that truth the first time he read that poem. Unfortunately only about half of us did.

[mistylynn]

Projection at it's finest. When they tell you who they are believe them.

[JeremyToh]

America has a deadly snake problem. Luckily the Bald Eagle the perfect symbol to take out the snake!

[captainx]

History repeating itself - "and the snake appeared in the garden of Eden".

[zag]

This was hard to watch. I don't like this edit.

[carlottawalker]

How dumb can you be? To sit there and listen to him and not realise that he was actually warning you about himself.

[SVent]

I said this the moment I heard it several years ago. This is a wicked confession not a warning about Mexicans.

[aronbens]

It is comical how oblivious Trump is to his projections. 🐍

[sonoftroy]

For all the people that voted for him in... that poem was for you!

[agriswold]

It’s funny when I heard this... I said this is about him.... man of projection

[galahadgarza]

This sounds biblical. Donald “the demon snake” biting the hapless woman (the US) after she had voted him in—I mean after she had taken him in.

[bher]

A bedtime story for all his fans..about HIMSELF!

[davidoleary]

I'm sure the only person who doesn't see the irony in this is Trump.

[klausbruckmeier]

Donald Trump introduced the snake bite with operation warpspeed.

[crazyfuknworld]

Is trump referring the woman is America and that he is the snake ' because that's what it sounds like to me what do you guys and gals think.

[screechingwind]

There was recently a story about a woman in Texas, and a snake dropped from the sky and wrapped its body around her arm as she was waving her arm to shake it off shouting for Jesus to help her it was trying to bite her in the face, an Eagle/hawk swooped down and was attacking the snake, finally the hawk managed to release the serpents grip on the womans arm and continued on its journey....

[konsejitos]

Yet his cult sheep with their little red hats, bought the oil, the snake was selling.