‘The Sopranos’ Characters Would Be Trump Supporters

“The Sopranos” star Michael Imperioli told The Independent that the characters in the HBO crime drama would “probably” be supporters of Donald Trump if the show were made today.

“The show is about the American dream, especially through the eyes of immigrants,” Imperioli said. “I think that would be one of the big themes if it was made today: the current climate in the US and what they’re doing to immigrants. The fact is that these characters are all immigrants, but I think a lot of them would probably be Trump supporters, oddly enough. So how do they reconcile those things? When Italians came over – and people forget this, or they don’t want to see it – a lot of them were undocumented.”

Imperioli starred as Christopher Moltisanti in all 86 episodes of “The Sopranos,” which ran for six seasons from 1999 to 2007 on HBO. Widely considered to be one of the best television dramas of all time, the show earned 21 Emmy Awards during its run, including three best actor wins for the late James Gandolfini. Imperioli was nominated at the Emmys four times and won once for best supporting actor in a drama.

“The Sopranos” creator David Chase told the New York Times in 2019 that he thought Gandolfini’s Tony Soprano would not be charmed by Trump.

“He would think the guy was full of [expletive],” he said. “Whether he thought he was a good president or not — I don’t know that Tony thought much about that question at all, with anybody who was in office. But I know Tony would have thought Trump was penny-ante, in terms of his lying and presentation.”