Gotti long way to go
Trump not fit to shine mobster’s pinkie ring
If one more big shot says the President runs the government like a mob kingpin, he’ll have to get a pinkie ring. So is President Trump a John Gotti wannabe in a bad suit, a Vito Corleone with a Twitter account?
No! Those guys were much better at money laundering, witness tampering and tax evasion for starters.
Last week, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-Brooklyn) was the latest to compare our commander-in-chief to a mobster, telling MSNBC’s Chris Matthews that Trump “has conducted himself like an organized crime boss.”
Sorry, Congressman Jeffries, but you are wrong. Trump has conducted himself like an UN-organized crime boss.
It’s not the first time Jeffries has compared Trump to a mob boss nor is he alone in doing so. In fact, this column dubbed him (first!) The Teflon Donald way back in June 2017, and The News even made him his own “Godfather” poster (above).
There are now so many people comparing Don to a Mafia don that it’s a good thing he’s got mob-hunter Rudy Giuliani on his side of the bench this time. Rudy’s so desperate to stay relevant that he’s turned himself inside out to protect the man who may be the biggest scammer/shammer ever to soil the White House.
Those who’ve compared Trump’s way of running the government (not to mention his family) to a criminal enterprise include former FBI Director James Comey, TV host Chris Cuomo, The Washington Post, The New Republic, New York magazine, The Globe and Mail and MSNBC. And that’s the short list.
I wrote way back in 2017 that Trump was “morphing from The Donald into The Don, a man who is running the White House like a mobbedup Queens social club complete with pledges of omerta from his capos.”
Now, however, like a Mafia movie gone bad, it’s all crashing down on his giant combover. So many in Trump’s inner circle have asked for and gotten pleas that the special counsel’s office is like Lourdes for lowlifes.
Trump’s even got his own Sammy “The Bull” in the guise of Michael (The Bullsh---ter) Cohen (left). But the stakes are so much higher than just bringing down any old Don. It’s the fate of the nation as opposed to, say, the fate of the Gambino crime family.
Trump’s fatal flaw (one of them anyway) is that he didn’t understand that loyalty cuts two ways. A godfather must stand by his lieutenants or they won’t stand by him.
As a result, Trump’s former loyalists are now turning faster than the Lord of the Dance at his inauguration.
Even in these high circles, dishing to the feds remains the best revenge — and it’s still a dish best served up cold. Very cold.
Subway nutjob for AG
Stop the nomination! Trump’s deep-pocketed attorney general nominee William Barr, who has donated, along with his wife, nearly threequarters of a million big ones to GOP candidates (according to The Washington Post), just got one-upped for the big gig.
A new and far more in-syncwith-this-White House attorney has come onto the scene in a yuuuge way. It’s 40-year-old Anna Lushchinskaya, charged as the unhinged subway racist/ spitter/kicker.
She’s got Russian roots and is blond, and she comes off on the video as nuts, a bigot and a racist as she spits and spews like Giuliani. And she’s got a law degree. In short, everything Trump loves in a flunky.
Bigot in a bikini exposed
Miss USA Sarah Rose Summers is a pageant winner but a big loser.
The Miss Universe candidate was caught on camera — or actually she spoke right into the camera — making fun of Miss Vietnam, H’Hen Nie, while dishing with Miss Colombia and Miss Australia. She screeches with laughter about how Nie “pretends to know so much English” (while imitating her), but can’t speak a word. Hilarious — right? So wrong.
Forget the remake of “Mean Girls” on Broadway. This is Mean Girls real life.
Later, Summers (above) mused about how “confusing” things must be for Miss Cambodia Rern Sinat, who doesn’t speak English either. “Not a single other person speaks her language, “she fake-sympathized, adding “Poor Cambodia!”
Question: How much Vietnamese and Khmer (official language of Cambodia) does Summers speak? Oh, right. Poor U.S.A.! The dumb blond issued a typical dumb apology after video went viral on the Instagram page of Miss Colombia, Valeria Morales.
The pageant is Sunday night. Too late, you lose.
Hey Ivanka! Get a room (and overcharge)
This family is so full of shysters it’s alleged that they couldn’t even throw their own inauguration party without throwing money into Trump pockets.
Internal emails and receipts reviewed by WNYC and ProPublica show that Trump’s inauguration allegedly paid — and overpaid — his own Trump Organization for rooms, meals and event space at Trump International Hotel in Washington. And Ivanka (above) reportedly knew about it because one of the event planners emailed her to “express my concern” that the hotel was overcharging for its event spaces.
The New York Times reported that prosecutors are also looking into whether money was illegally contributed by foreigners to the inaugural’s unprecedented huge haul.
The HuffPost reported that Rick Gates, deputy chairman of the inaugural, even allegedly asked some vendors to take their payments from donors instead of the committee.
This is a family that doesn’t deserve the White House; they deserve the big house.
Kylie kancels Kristmas over Kanye
How tragic can it get? Not only has the Kardashian Christmas card shoot possibly been canceled, now Kylie Jenner— slated to be the youngest self-made billionaire ever — has canceled Christmas altogether (well at least with her family). The reason? Krazy Kanye (above) publicly trashed her boyfriend, Travis Scott, for working with Drake on “Sicko Mode.” Sicko is right. What a shame. Yeezus, like Jesus, loves nothing more than a big Kardashian Kristmas.