“Donnie the Snake”
Every notorious mobster, supervillain, or serial killer had a succinct nickname befitting of their infamy: Al “Scarface” Capone, “Ice Pick Willie” Alderman, and we have “Donnie the Snake.”
“The elephant in the room is that Trump is the living embodiment of the snake that my father wrote about in that song.” -Africa Brown
“Ice Pick Willie” claimed to have murdered eleven people by inserting an ice pick into their ears. “Scarface” Capone, well, most know his history. “Donnie the Snake?” Incidentally, two of the three I named above were eventually taken down by charges of tax evasion. Food for thought.
Here’s a little backstory on the snake, starting with a quote from a poem by that name, first appropriated by Donald Trump while campaigning in 2016. Civil rights activist Oscar Brown Jr. wrote the poem as a song in 1963. Trump has made it an anti-immigration schtick, often achieving uproarious cheers from his rally goers after reading the poem. According to reporting in the Washington Post:
Trump likes to emphasize the last line, taking gusto as he repeats the snake’s words:
“ ‘Oh, shut up, silly…
