Donald Trump and The Snake , Zero Tolerance , FRONTLINE
Donald Trump uses song lyrics to compare immigrants to killer snakes in the stunning opening sequence of the new FRONTLINE documentary Zero Tolerance. Subscribe on YouTube: When he took the stage at campaign rallies across the country, presidential hopeful Donald Trump often had a piece of paper in his pocket, ready to go if the moment seemed right. On it was printed something unlikely: the lyrics to a song written in the 1960s by civil rights activist Oscar Brown Jr. Based on a fable, The Snake tells the story of a kind woman who takes an injured snake into her home to nurse him back to health only to be shocked when she is fatally bitten. In Trumps hands, however, Browns words were imbued with a new and specific meaning. As the opening scene from the upcoming FRONTLINE documentary Zero Tolerance explores, Trump recast the lyrics as an antiimmigration allegory equating people seeking to enter America with killer snakes who would inevitably c
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