Our snake got a makeover. Same flag-print scales, same forked tongue shaped like a dollar sign. But now it's wearing the most famous hair in American politics: the golden swoop, the gravity-defying combover, the mystery nobody has ever solved.
He swears it's real. He swore a lot of things were real. He even rolled back the federal shower-head rules so he could get the water pressure to wash it properly. That's how you know where his priorities are.
This is Ameri-Con: satire for sanity, aimed at the con artists running the country. The snake is the con. The hair is just the part you can see.