March 29, 2023
For the record, I love my wife’s meatballs, but not enough to affectionately label someone else a meatball as Donald Trump has done in calling the Governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, Meatball Ron. I guess WOP, Dago, Spaghetti Bender and Guinea were already taken. No one ever accused Trump of being woke or politically correct, which seems to me to be a distinction without a difference.
Trump seems to have a fascination with all things Italian. He juts his jaw out just like Benito Mussolini. Maybe it’s a Fascist thing, or an old man with a triple chin thing. Ironically, Ron DeSantis, who’s grandparents came from Southern Italy, is claiming that the big difference between him and Trump is that he actually keeps the trains running on time. Trump could be the reincarnation of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, but without the bunga bunga sex parties. Then again, I have never been to Mar-a-Lago so who’s to say.
Trump has had more than a passing relationship with mafia figures like John Gotti and Sammy “The Bull” Gravano. Now there is a nickname. Trump enjoys imitating tough guys like wrestlers and gangsters in the same way he impersonated a successful business man on The Apprentice. He even pretended recently to be a baseball player when he threatened the Manhattan D.A. with a baseball bat. Trump’s personal attorney before Giuliani was Roy Cohn, who also defended the original Teflon Don and Tony Salerno. I guess with Trump all roads do, indeed, lead to Rome.
The Spin Doctor 