Trump Compares Immigrants To Deadly Snakes With Poem Meant To Bolster Support For Border Wall [VIDEO]

April 30, 2017 News, Politics

The Independent reports:

Donald Trump compared immigrants to a treacherous snake that bites its host as he commemorated his 100th day as President.

Mr Trump read the lyrics of Al Wilson’s 1968 song “The Snake,” in which a woman takes an ill snake into her home only for it to bite her once it has recovered. He also paused to point out to his audience it was a metaphor for “the border.”

During his speech to a rally in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Mr Trump dedicated his recital to Secretary of Homeland Security John Kelly and anti-immigration agencies.

Trump's reading of The Snake as a sitting US President was shameful. Terrifying normalization of hate pic.twitter.com/Oqdzzo3FM5

— José Díaz-Briseño (@diazbriseno) April 30, 2017