"'We don't want those people,' he said Sunday night, speaking of refugees from Third World countries. That was around the same time the official White House account posted a video of Trump reciting the civil rights song 'The Snake' by Oscar Brown Jr. ' 'Oh shut up, silly woman,' said that reptile with a grin,' Trump intoned over footage of immigration agents rounding up, you guessed it, brown people. 'You knew damn well I was a snake before you brought me in.'"
"While we've seen it before, this time Trump's attack on non-white immigrants seems like a move not to placate his MAGA voters but to marginalize them - an embrace of an increasingly powerful farther-right-than-MAGA contingent of his base that is open in its disdain for pluralism and equality. Shortly after the tragedy in Washington, Trump vowed on social media to 'remove anyone who is not a net asset to the United States, or is incapable of loving our Country.'"
Sarah Beckstrom, 20, a National Guard member serving to help pay for college, was killed. Staff Sgt. Andrew Wolfe, 24, remains critically injured. Rahmanullah Lakanwal, 29, an Afghan national, is in custody and may face the federal death penalty. The killings occurred near the White House a day before Thanksgiving and raise questions about the attacker’s path to the United States and whether screening missed red flags. Concurrently, President Trump issued anti-immigrant statements and posted a video reciting 'The Snake,' tying refugees and non-white immigrants to criminality and signaling alignment with a farther-right, anti-pluralism faction of his base.
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