August 28, 2018--Sammy (The Bull) Gravano
Mary Trescot and Rona have a theory--
There is all the current speculation that Trump is more like a Mafia Don than a traditional president.
Not only is he, was he mobbed up (you can't build 50-story buildings in New York City without dealing with the mob because among other essential things they control the cement business and the private carting [garbage collection] business) but also his vernacular and his reference group are more the likes of John Gotti and Tony Soprano than George W. Bush or, God help us, Barack Obama.
Referring to "flippers" as "rats," and woman as "dogs," Trump also asked then FBI director James Comey if "we can let this go" when they met to talk about the Russian hacking of the 2016 election.
His comfortable use of wise-guy argot comes across as something more out of Goodfellas than the Wharton School (which he claims to have attended).
This is intentional posturing because he wants to appear to be a regular guy tough guy rather than the draft-dodging woss he is. So cowardly that he is afraid to go to Iraq or Afghanistan to visit the troops he says he so reveres.
Mary and Rona think his use of nicknames is also mob-like.
He has "Crooked" Hillary; the mob has Joseph "Bananas" Bonanno; Trump had "Little Marco," the good-fellas have Louis "Cock-Eyed" Fratto.
Trump's is a very long list and includes "Crazy" Joe Biden, "Lyin" Ted Cruz, Jeff "Flakey," "Wacky" Omarosa, Elizabeth "Pocahontas" Warren (my favorite), and for James Comey, more monikers than anyone else--"Slippery," "Shady," and "Slimeball."
Trump is so good at assigning deprecating nicknames that some speculate others not yet on his list are afraid to criticize him too harshly because they do not want to get stigmatized. Just ask Senator Warren how it feels.
Some of my favorite Mafia nicknames include--Israel "Ice Pick" Alderman, Louis "The Chin" Gigante, Tony "Big Tuna" Accord, Johnny "Sausage" Barbara, Louis "Bagels" Daidone, Jimmy "Dumps" Palermo, and of course, perhaps the one person Trump models himself after, John "Dapper Don" Gotti.
I think Mary and Rona are on to something. They are also right to point out that Gotti was brought down by his fixer, Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, who broke his "made man" "blood oath" and "wore a wire" to record their conversations as they walked about in Little Italy discussing the next scheduled "rub out." At his trial The Bull confessed to 19 "hits." Gotti went "up the river" and died in jail.
There is all the current speculation that Trump is more like a Mafia Don than a traditional president.
Not only is he, was he mobbed up (you can't build 50-story buildings in New York City without dealing with the mob because among other essential things they control the cement business and the private carting [garbage collection] business) but also his vernacular and his reference group are more the likes of John Gotti and Tony Soprano than George W. Bush or, God help us, Barack Obama.
Referring to "flippers" as "rats," and woman as "dogs," Trump also asked then FBI director James Comey if "we can let this go" when they met to talk about the Russian hacking of the 2016 election.
His comfortable use of wise-guy argot comes across as something more out of Goodfellas than the Wharton School (which he claims to have attended).
This is intentional posturing because he wants to appear to be a regular guy tough guy rather than the draft-dodging woss he is. So cowardly that he is afraid to go to Iraq or Afghanistan to visit the troops he says he so reveres.
Mary and Rona think his use of nicknames is also mob-like.
He has "Crooked" Hillary; the mob has Joseph "Bananas" Bonanno; Trump had "Little Marco," the good-fellas have Louis "Cock-Eyed" Fratto.
Trump's is a very long list and includes "Crazy" Joe Biden, "Lyin" Ted Cruz, Jeff "Flakey," "Wacky" Omarosa, Elizabeth "Pocahontas" Warren (my favorite), and for James Comey, more monikers than anyone else--"Slippery," "Shady," and "Slimeball."
Trump is so good at assigning deprecating nicknames that some speculate others not yet on his list are afraid to criticize him too harshly because they do not want to get stigmatized. Just ask Senator Warren how it feels.
Some of my favorite Mafia nicknames include--Israel "Ice Pick" Alderman, Louis "The Chin" Gigante, Tony "Big Tuna" Accord, Johnny "Sausage" Barbara, Louis "Bagels" Daidone, Jimmy "Dumps" Palermo, and of course, perhaps the one person Trump models himself after, John "Dapper Don" Gotti.
I think Mary and Rona are on to something. They are also right to point out that Gotti was brought down by his fixer, Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, who broke his "made man" "blood oath" and "wore a wire" to record their conversations as they walked about in Little Italy discussing the next scheduled "rub out." At his trial The Bull confessed to 19 "hits." Gotti went "up the river" and died in jail.
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| John Gotti (center) Sammy the Bull Gravano (right) |
Labels: Goodfellas, John Gotti, Mafia, Sammy (The Bull) Gravano, Tony Soprano, Trump Nicknames
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