Sicilian mafias, according to Gambetta, “live at the margin and mistakes and blunders are costly for them and their confreres, so recruits are chosen carefully and their competence seriously evaluated before being initiated.”
TACO (“Trump Always Chickens Out”), Gambetta continued, “is not an option for them, as being intimidating is a key part of their job as their verdicts and decisions must be respected. And they pride themselves for respecting their promises, as men of honor do.”
In February 2019. Gambetta told Vice that Trump and mafia bosses are opposites in their public behavior. Mafia bosses, he said,
do not talk much at all. They measure their words with great care. They do not gesticulate or pull faces.
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