It’s widely believed that Roy Cohn, a New York lawyer, mentored the Donald on how to run his businesses – and that Cohn had very extensive connections to organized crime. Associations like these make some people suggest that our President runs our government like he’s a Don running a Mafia family.
But does the Donald actually sound, and act, like a Don? Since he notoriously conflates movie reality with actual reality, it seems fair to compare quotes from The Godfather, a movie about a most powerful Don, to quotes from the most powerful Donald on the planet.
“I’m gonna make him an offer he can’t refuse.”
Don Corleone, The Godfather