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Martin Scorseses new film, The Irishman, conjures up a lost world. It depicts an era when the Mafia was so powerful that it set off alarms in the Kennedy White House, and Scorsese even hints that organized crime was behind JFKs assassination.
But by the end of the three-hour-plus movie, the nostalgia fades and so does the pinkie-ring finery. Every made man Scorsese introduces to the viewer is snuffed out until all thats left is Frank Sheeran (played by Robert DeNiro), a disheveled, wheelchair-bound ex-hit man whos haunted by his memories. At the films end, a pair of FBI agents plead with Sheeran to talk about his victims, telling him theres no reason to keep silent anymore because theres no one left to protect. Everybodys dead, Mr. Sheeran, one agent says. Theyre all gone.
Well, many still remember. One person who knew the real-life mob families that show up in The Irishman is President Donald Trump.
Back in the 1980s and 1990s, Trumps buildings and his casinos attracted underworld figures like Fat Tony Salerno, the Fedora-wearing, cigar-chomping boss of the Genovese crime family. Salerno, whos portrayed in the film by Domenick Lombardozzi, supplied the fast-drying concrete that built Trump Tower and other Trump properties. Salerno also controlled the local concrete workers union, and when a strike shut down construction in Manhattan in 1982, the one of the few buildings that wasnt affected was Trump Tower.
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(45,002 posts)Does he fancy himself some kind of made guy? What a bozo.
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(113,061 posts)GOP will find a way to blow up the small Biden mention into a smear while claiming all the revelations about Trump are fake news.