Trump’s Total Failure: Francis Ford Coppola On His Old Classmate, ‘The Godfather’ & Wine | MSNBC

Legendary director Francis Ford Coppola speaks out about a footnote in New York history — he went to high school with Donald Trump — and why he thinks Trump is failing in every aspect of the Presidency. Coppola also discusses his winery, immigration, Robert De Niro and applying the teachings of Aristotle today — plus joking about who gets the “final cut” — in this second installment of an interview with MSNBC's Ari Melber. (This interview is from MSNBC’s “The Beat with Ari Melber, a news show covering politics, law and culture airing nightly at 6pm ET on MSNBC. ). Aired on 09/21/2020.
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Trump's Total Failure: Francis Ford Coppola On His Old Classmate, 'The Godfather' & Wine | MSNBC

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  1. *Five most shameful things you can be:*
    5. Drug Dealer
    4. Bank Robber
    3. Serial Killer
    2. Child Predator
    1. Trump Supporter

  2. Is Gary Busey still alive? Because if so, he’s the clear pick to play t’rump in the movie about his life, tentatively called “t’rumpster Fire: How the Dumbest Man in New York Became the Worst President in History.”

    1. @Abel Gonzales “creepy Joe” = argumentum ad hominem That’s attacking the man instead of his argument. Is fallacious reasoning and of zero logical value.

  3. Francis Ford Coppola is an American genius. he went to high school with Donald Trump. Amazing. I went to high school with Rusi Giuiliani; he was a putz then, and he’s aged into a slob.

    1. @Yolanda Denny The redoubtable Alice Roosevelt Longworth (“If you haven’t got anything nice to say about anybody . . . come sit by me”) once said “Warren Harding wasn’t a bad man really, he was just a slob.”
      Apparently, she was speaking in tones of something like endearment, or at least forgiveness. We won’t be saying anything endearing or forgiving about this slob when he’s been strumped out.

  4. Everything good that America stands for trump has been and is trying to DESTROY and turn our country into a “Rich Mafia controlled family authoritarianism” .and the Republican party is responsible for not only allowing it to happen but for making it happen and participating in it. IT IS ALL ON THE Republican party..almost all of them..a few are exempt..

    1. @Michael S You are repeating the typical BS that Trump tries to sell to American citizens, the sad aspect is that you fell for it.

    2. @harrison wintergreen Has it really? I don’t think so…he and his family are raking in tons of money for their D.C. hotel where many “foreign leaders” go and let’s see all of those secret service people having to pay tons of money for their Mara Largo rooms. Jared and “family” are also raking in “big financial deals” with Saudi Arabia. Also the deals trump has made with CEO’s for building the wall…and I wonder if all of we taxpayers are paying for all of these trump rallies “CV-19 testing everyone around trump…he is tested and protected but doesn’t seem to care about anyone else at these rallies..what a selfish A hole trump and his family are. I”m sure there is a lot more but I don’t have all night. We will be finding out once trump loses the election, and Biden comes in, we will be finding out how much trump and his family have been ripping off of the American people.

    3. harrison wintergreen of course it has bankruptcies are Trumps thing, now he wants to bankrupt the USA. He would have more now if he just lived off the family money. If you bankrupt then you should have to use your personal money to payoff the debt.

    1. Haha ikr and when he said that that this is the worst pandemic since “1917” — then added that the “1917” pandemic “probably ended the Second World War.” 🤯😩👩‍🏫

    2. @Sara Ford The depths of Trump’s stupidity is astounding and his ineptitude is immense. The only two things that are huge in relation to Trump are his ignorance and ineptitude.

    1. You are as well my friend, unless off course you are a native American. Wise to remember that America is the country built by immigrants, for immigrants.

  5. I went to high school and was taught by WWll veterans that used the GI bill to become teachers. All of them are rolling over in their graves.

  6. Let me go ahead and tell everyone what trump will say “I don’t know Francis, did he say he knows me. I know a lot of people but I couldn’t pick him out of a room if he was here now” 🤔☝️

    1. @Elizabeth White “no one has ever heard of a memory like mine, the doctors said they were amazed I was even alive” – trump

    1. I didn’t see an educated man in this video, I saw an elitist millionaire Hollywood celebrity confirming how disconnected he is from the reality of everyday ordinary people.

  7. Well, everything he said pretty much requires the dismantling of the patriarchy, cause it’s that which urges people to compete and makes winners and losers in society. It’s the hierarchy of the ape. We need to work together like in the old days

  8. Trump vs Coppola
    Trump: I am the Godfather…
    Coppola: you know that was fiction, correct? Did your father tell you it was real? Your father was a moron…🤪

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