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Trump’s signature seems like, amongst different issues, the sharp tooth of a shark.
One of Donald Trump’s creepiest marketing campaign stunts is to learn to his rally rooters the lyrics to an old tune referred to as “The Snake.”
Written and recorded within the Sixties, “The Snake” is a parable a couple of variety girl who saves a struggling snake from a freezing dying when he begs for assist.
After she feeds him and warms him, he bites her with toxic, deadly venom. The girl asks the snake why he did this and Trump smiles as he reads the snake’s reply.
“‘Shut up, silly woman,’” mentioned the reptile with a smile. “‘You knew damn well I was a snake before you brought me in!’” Trump claims it’s about immigration.
After chanting the lyrics in a sing-song cadence from a bit of paper and gesturing together with his free hand for emphasis, Trump virtually hisses these closing strains as his red-hatted cult members snort and cheer him on in main states like New Hampshire final week.
It is one in every of a number of aware and unconscious “tells” the previous actuality TV star has placed on show for greater than a decade as a right-wing, Republican demagogue. Another clue is the over-the-top aggression of Trump’s very signature, which seems like, amongst different issues, the sharp tooth of a shark.
In studying the lyrics to “The Snake,” Trump often provides the adjective “vicious” earlier than the phrase “snake,” though it’s neither written nor recorded that manner within the lyrics by Oscar Brown, Jr., and the most well-liked vocal by Al Wilson.
But Trump appears to like the phrase “vicious.” In his recitation — from the one paper script he pulls from his go well with pocket —you may virtually hear the saliva bubbles dribble throughout his forked tongue as he spits the phrase by his twisted lips.
After utilizing “The Snake” in his profitable 2016 marketing campaign for president in opposition to Hillary Clinton, the massive, loud, orange-faced, yellow-haired bully has revived this golden oldie for his 2024 marketing campaign in opposition to President Joe Biden.
And it serves Trump properly, maybe revealing greater than he realizes. Trump claims the tune works as a metaphor for “illegals” who migrate throughout the southern border and produce crime, illness, medicine, psychological sickness, terrorism, and sabotage. First, it was simply Syrians and Muslims. Now, it’s any “other.”
He by no means portrays migrants as households hoping to seek out work and enhance their lives from the bottom rung of the ladder of the “American Dream.” No, it’s all the time an “invasion” of “military-age men.”
And Trump doesn’t have to inform you these “illegals” are dark-skinned as a result of you may see that each hour on Fox News, proper alongside the Texas razor wire and items of Trump’s “wall.”
Trump never portrays migrants as families hoping to find work and improve their lives from the lowest ladder of the “American Dream.” No, it’s always an “invasion.”
By evaluating migrants to reptiles, Trump lowers them to subhuman standing with pores and skin that’s darkish and slimy. Such creatures are simpler to worry and to hate. Trump consistently reminds us they’re “vermin” who will “poison the blood” of individuals Trump calls “true patriots.”
In a Frontline report by PBS in 2019, the Austrian language researcher Kateryna Pilyarchuk analyzed Trump’s recited phrases as they utilized to immigrants from Muslim nations, one in every of Trump’s first goal teams.
“He uses this metaphor to present himself as a hero, as someone who will protect you from these animals,” she mentioned. “That means everyone else who comes to the country becomes not a human being, but an animal. And if that person is Muslim, that person is not even a mammal.”
And then there may be the Freudian interpretation of Trump’s Snake obsession. A proud New York City playboy who has been discovered civilly chargeable for sexual assault, Trump prior to now has bragged about grabbing ladies by the crotch the primary time he meets them.
By cheering for the aggressive Snake in his tune recitation, Trump appears to facet with an uncoiling male predator who takes benefit of an unsuspecting feminine sufferer. The weak snake turns into stronger and assaults the naïve feminine, penetrating her.
In actual life, Trump appears obsessive about ladies who’re rivals and critics, typically expressing revulsion to particular feminine particulars starting from GOP rival candidate Nikki Haley’s gown to Mika Brzezinski’s face to Megyn Kelly’s menstrual cycle.
One of few ladies he frequently praises is “Our Luv-lee Fust Lay-dee” who not seems with him.
And what concerning the so-called “evangelicals” who help Trump irrespective of what number of wives he marries and buries on his golf course? That God squad would possibly meditate upon the Biblical significance of Trump selecting the Snake as his hero.
According to the Book of Genesis, the serpent within the Garden of Eden stands for Original Sin and evil and, by extension, the satan, that’s to say, Satan, Lucifer, the Father of Lies, Beelzebub, the Prince of Darkness.
Why would a candidate for president — even one indicted for a number of felonies and responsible of frauds like “Trump University” — select to establish even by metaphoric extension with the beast that turned Man in opposition to God?
If tune lyric symbolism and psychological projection are usually not your factor, you may consider this former President merely with a look at his signature.
At greatest, his jagged, cramped strains are an inventive impression of Trump’s beloved Manhattan skyline as seen from Queens. Or, as talked about above, the tooth of a shark, transferring in for the kill. Certainly these sudden peaks and valleys recommend a risky temperament and impulsiveness, do they not?
Consider Trump’s autograph and what you would possibly assume in case your physician handed you this sequence of jagged jolts and instructed you it was the EKG studying of your heartbeat. Or if the man on TV instructed you this was the Richter scale studying of an earthquake in Mexico.
The handwriting analyst Michelle Dresbold, who studied her craft at a Secret Service faculty, instructed Politico that Trump’s lack of curves in his letter formation reveals his hard-headed and self-centered persona.
“Curves in handwriting show softness, nurturing and a maternal nature,” she mentioned. “Angles show a writer who is feeling angry, determined, fearful, competitive or challenged. When a script is completely devoid of curves, the writer lacks empathy and craves power, prestige and admiration.”
Sound like anybody we all know? Anyone who ought to ever once more get near energy?
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