Trumpworld Follows a <em>Godfather</em> Script—Literally
Roger Stone allegedly urged an associate to “do a ‘Frank Pentangeli,’” in reference to a Corleone-family capo.
In Nora Ephron’s You’ve Got Mail, dialogue from The Godfather is presented as the urtext, the key to the masculine code, “the sum of all wisdom,” as Tom Hanks’s character emails Meg Ryan’s at one point in the film. In the shadowy, conspiratorial circle that so often seems to surround Donald Trump, the Mafia’s cryptic lingo plays the same role.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s indictment of Trump’s longtime
