After Donald Trump Jr. quotes the film “The Godfather”, the Internet doubts the intelligence of Trump’s son.
WASHINGTON DC – The investigation into the January 6, 2021 Capitol storming continues and the noose around former President Donald Trump’s neck is tightening. Trump is said to have deliberately not prevented his supporters from attacking the state building. According to new evidence, the then President is said to have stood by and watched the storming of the Capitol for more than 180 minutes.
But the son of the formerly most powerful man in the world also appears again and again in the hearings: Donald Trump Jr. The quote from a message between him and Mark Meadows, then Chief of Staff of the White House, brought ridicule and malice to the Trump offspring .
Donald Trump Jr.: “The Godfather” quote puts Junior in need of explanation
Shortly before the events on January 6, 2021, Trump Jr. and Meadows are said to have exchanged texts. In the messages revealed by the commission of inquiry, the President’s son asked Meadows to get his father to stop the attack on the Capitol.
“This is one you go to the mattresses on” is said to have been a formulation by Donald Trump Jr. In his Jan. 6 interview with the committee, the former president’s son was asked what he meant by the phrase. The sentence was an allusion to the film “The Godfather”. He would have wanted Mr. Meadows to “go all out” and thwarted his father’s attack.
Trump Jr.’s statement caused amusement online. The phrase exists and is also used in “The Godfather”, but “Junior’s allusion to ‘The Godfather’ makes absolutely no sense in this context,” amuses just one of many users on Twitter. In fact, the eldest Trump son used the phrase incorrectly. “To go on the mattresses”, literally means “go to war” or “prepare for a long war”. The wording refers to the hidden mattress camps in the military trenches.
Donald Trump Jr. is ridiculed on the Internet: comparison with the mafia
The strange usage and the even stranger explanation of his phrasing are now flying around Trump Jr.’s ears on the Internet. Especially on Twitter, users make fun of the mafia allusion and compare the junior with crime boss Michael Corleone. “Don Junior,” writes one user.
Another Twitter user who appeared to have been following the hearing wrote that “the whole room laughed at [Trump Jr.’s] response” when he explained that he was trying to quote “The Godfather.” Several users then wondered if he even understood the sentence and wrote that the allusion to a mafia film would fit the Trumps perfectly. (aa)
