John Gotti ordered the murder of five people, while Trump ordered the murder of thousands.
By Kurt Nimmo
Another Day in the Empire
April 16, 2026
In the climax to Francis Ford Coppola's classic film, The Godfather, Michael Corleone, the scion of an Italian crime family, orders the murder of rival Mafia leaders after a failed peace meeting with members of the Five Families in New York.
Reading Truth Social posts by President Donald Trump, I am reminded of this film with its bloody ending. Prior to his failed ceasefire deal in Islamabad, Trump mentioned the work of his hit team, Israel, and the murder of "hardline" negotiators. In Qatar, seasoned Zionist murderers assassinated Hamas peace negotiators. A senior official in Israel told Channel 12 Trump gave his blessing for the murders. During his first administration, Trump ordered the murder of the top-ranking commander of the IRGC Quds Force, Qasem Soleimani.
Trump, however, is a piker when compared to the Zionists. In July, 2024, Israeli assassins murdered Ismail Haniyeh, the main negotiator for Hamas, in Tehran. The Palestinian was in Iran to arrange ceasefire and "hostage" (POW) release. The following year, they assassinated Mohammad Bagheri, the Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and a number of other IRGC officials in Tehran with an airstrike. On the day US-Israel launched an illegal attack on Iran, February 28, the Israeli Air Force murdered Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Aziz Nasirzadeh, the Minister of Defense, and a several others in Tehran. Ali Larijani, Iran's top negotiator, was killed on March 17.
The Zionist crime organization allegedly planned to murder Iran's negotiators in Islamabad, but for Trump that was a step too far. "Don't fucking do that," he reportedly demanded. The Washington Post published an op-ed on April 9, penned by a "senior fellow" at the neocon infested American Enterprise Institute, calling for the murder of Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi and Parliament Speaker Mohammad Ghalibaf. It is said Israel agreed to remove the two Iranians from the hit list, but only for the duration of the talks in Pakistan.
The Zionist state has assassinated adversaries since the 1950s, including Egyptians, a West German rocket scientist, numerous Iranian nuclear scientists, Palestinian writers and political figures, Libyans, Brazilians, Canadians, and assorted activists (including the American Rachel Corrie). See an exhaustive list of victims here.
Trump threatened to destroy the 7,000-year old civilization of Iran on April 7. In 2020, during his first term, he threatened to bomb Iran's cultural sites if the Islamic Republic responded to the drone murder of Soleimani in Baghdad.
"As we've seen over and over again, Trump views the world through the eyes of a mafia boss rather than someone who took an oath to uphold the Constitution," writes Nancy LeTourneau. "Trump looks and acts like a mob boss," notes The Daily Beast.
In fact, it has often been noted that this president-who used to work in casinos and the building trades-has long emulated the style and affect of now-deceased Gambino family boss John Gotti.
Gotti orchestrated the murder of Paul Castellano, the successor of Carlo Gambino as head of the Gambino crime family of New York City. The mafioso "Teflon Don" Gotti was convicted and imprisoned for ordering the murder of five people, while Trump has ordered the murder of not only Iranian leaders and officials, but more than 2,000 Iranian citizens who never threatened the United States.
Donald Trump's mentor was Roy Cohen, the New York attorney who defended not only Gotti, but other Mafia figures as well, including Tony Salerno, Carmine Galante, Paul Castellano, and Mario Gigante. Cohen taught Trump aggressive tactics in business and politics, for instance never admitting wrongdoing, counterattacking critics, and escalating conflicts. Cohen also tutored Trump on media manipulation.
"I hear Roy in the things he says quite clearly," Peter Fraser, Cohn's lover in the last two years of his life, told the New York Times. "That bravado, and if you say it aggressively and loudly enough, it's the truth-that's the way Roy used to operate to a degree, and Donald was certainly his apprentice."
This article was originally published on Another Day in the Empire.