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Billy Graham, Arming Teachers, Snake Song: 7 Takeaways From Trump's CPAC Speech

By Michael Gryboski, Editor Twitter

5) The snake song

Demonstrators protest in front of the White House after the Trump administration today scrapped the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a program that protects from deportation almost 800,000 young men and women who were brought into the U.S. illegally as children, in Washington, U.S., September 5, 2017.
Demonstrators protest in front of the White House after the Trump administration today scrapped the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a program that protects from deportation almost 800,000 young men and women who were brought into the U.S. illegally as children, in Washington, U.S., September 5, 2017. | (Photo: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)

While speaking about the need for stricter immigration laws, Trump recited the lyrics of a 1960s song by Al Wilson about a kindhearted woman who took in an injured snake only to be bitten by it, part of which includes the following passage:

I saved you, cried that woman

And you've bit me even, 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.

"I don't want people coming into this country with a lottery, I want people coming into this country based on merit," explained Trump.

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