Donald Trump Reads The Snake Lyric At Campaign Rally Referring To Immigration | Jan.12th 2016 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qu6_2hFTw74&feature=share CEDAR FALLS, Iowa — What does an Al Wilson song from 1968 have to do with the current Syrian refugee crisis?
In one of his shortest campaign speeches yet (Trump's typical hour was shortened a mere 38 minutes Tuesday night) the GOP front-runner hit all of his usual talking points with an unusually serious, professorial tone — and also managed to answer that question.
In what could be read as a rhetorical counter to President Obama's eloquent speaking style and often-anecdotal way of presenting policies to voters, Trump employed a never-before-seen tactic on the trail Tuesday evening: A dramatic reading, glasses and all, of Al Wilson's "The Snake."
The song, which has an old-school R&B beat, paints a picture of a trusting woman (read: America) who invites a snake into her home, saving him from freezing. Ultimately, as she "clutched him to her bosom" he bites her.
When she asks why he did that after all she'd done for him, the "vicious" reptile replies "oh shut up silly woman ... you knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in."
Upon finishing the recitation, the crowd cheered. "That's right!" one man cried out.
"Does that make sense?" Trump asked the clapping crowd of about 1,000 people gathered in the University of Northern Iowa gymnasium. "Hopefully that's not gonna be the case," he said, referencing the controversial decision of whether or not to take Syrian refugees into the country.
During what some called Trump's personal pre-buttal to the State of the Union, his attacks on the president were mostly standard. He called out incompetence among the ranks of America's leaders, especially in regards to the Iran Deal, which Trump views as a harbinger for situations like the one in which Iran held two small Navy boats carrying 10 U.S. sailors earlier Tuesday.
Trump even joked that he might not watch the State of the Union, but quickly did an about face, saying that he had to watch in order to see "what the hell's going on because he [Obama] doesn't know, so somebody has to."
While he went after Ted Cruz for questions about his natural born citizenship, he lacked his signature bombastic flair, instead explaining that he's raising these questions "for the party" and "for Ted" not so that he can win "on a technicality."
He did, however, reassure that these questions about Cruz were a "big, big factor" and should be taken seriously.
In a departure from his prior pleas to Iowans to register and remember to vote on February 1st, Trump didn't ask for votes on this single-digit temp night Iowa Tuesday night.
Instead, he made a case for his electability, based on the fact that he's leading decisively everywhere but Iowa and that if he wins there, "I think we're gonna run the table."
http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2016-election/snake-trump-poetry-slams-syrian-refugees-allegorical-song-n495311The Snake - Al Wilson
AL WILSON
"The Snake"
(Oscar Brown Jr.)
On her way to work one morning
Down the path along side the lake
A tender hearted woman saw a poor half frozen snake
His pretty colored skin had been all frosted with the dew
"Poor thing," she cried, "I'll take you in and I'll take care of you"
"Take me in tender woman
Take me in, for heaven's sake
Take me in, tender woman," sighed the snake
She wrapped him all cozy in a comforter of silk
And laid him by her fireside with some honey and some milk
She hurried home from work that night and soon as she arrived
She found that pretty snake she'd taken to had bee revived
"Take me in, tender woman
Take me in, for heaven's sake
Take me in, tender woman," sighed the snake
She clutched him to her bosom, "You're so beautiful," she cried
"But if I hadn't brought you in by now you might have died"
She stroked his pretty skin again and kissed and held him tight
Instead of saying thanks, the snake gave her a vicious bite
"Take me in, tender woman
Take me in, for heaven's sake
Take me in, tender woman," sighed the snake
"I saved you," cried the woman
"And you've bitten me, but why?
You know your bite is poisonous and now I'm going to die"
"Oh shut up, silly woman," said the reptile with a grin
"You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in
"Take me in, tender woman
Take me in, for heaven's sake
Take me in, tender woman," sighed the snake