Trump’s Favorite Rally Gag Gets Turned Against Him On CNN

Former President Donald Trump’s favorite rally gimmick was turned against him on CNN when a union leader attacked him as a “snake” who has always been anti-union.

Among the regular features of a Trump rally that his fans can recite like lines from The Rocky Horror Picture Show is Trump’s trademark misappropriation of the song “The Snake,” which reached iconic status before being supplanted by the trance slam poetry he does at the end of his rallies now.

On Tuesday night’s CNN coverage of Mini-Super Tuesday, Teamsters executive John Palmer told Erin Burnett he thinks President Joe Biden will get his union’s endorsement, then referenced the story of “The Snake” — and identified Trump as the serpent in question:

BURNETT: So you mentioned that you feel confident, that he may get this endorsement, but, you know when you look at 2020, your union, the Teamsters didn’t give an endorsement until about 11 weeks before the election. And exit polling at the time shows, you know, nearly three- quarters of voters had made up their mind by that point. So do you feel the pressure to make this decision more quickly this time?

PALMER: I would certainly suggest that we do I mean, lets be honest, there’s — there’s no choice here. There never was a choice and a waiting any longer only delays the obvious and the time we need to explain this. I mean, our members — our members need to be when you confront or not confront, but educate our members as to why this is so critical to them.

They’re — you know, Social Security is one of the issues we discussed Joe Biden was key and saving the pensions, not just for our union, but many other unions that were troubled pensions.

He — he has been very, very positive and proactive in reforming the labor board, the Department of Labor, OSHA, all these different agencies that really, really affect the livelihoods and well-being of our members, and those folks that aren’t members, workingmen and women.

BURNETT: I know that the president of your union has met with Trump more than once. We’ve got images of them together at Mar-a-Lago. So he has taken the time to do that.

I know you have chosen not to do that as you just mentioned yourself. Is that what your rank and file want? That they wanted to make sure that that he did meet with Trump as well. Do you think that was important?

PALMER: I think they argued that that was the reason they did it I would just say that the old story about a snake nursing it to health and then it bites you. You know, it was a snake when you handled it.

So Donald Trump is what he is. He’s been anti-union for decades. And I think we’re wasting our time. So I’m maybe — you know, I’m probably the one — obviously the one that didn’t attend, that takes a very different opinion of dealing with people that that aren’t — aren’t — aren’t going to help you.

Watch above via CNN’s coverage of Mini-Super Tuesday.