Back in 2016, Donald Trump began to do something very strange for most politicians: he would pull a piece of paper from his pocket on which he had written the lyrics to a song more than 50 years old. He would then read those lyrics with glee, but interpret them in a new and darker light.
Trump usually referred to the words he read as a poem, which he still does to this day. In fact, they are the lyrics to a song called “The Snake”, which was written and first recorded by civil-rights activist Oscar Brown in 1963. A few years later, the song became a hit single for Al Wilson in 1968.
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