Michael Imperioli Keeps It Real on Who 'The Sopranos' Would Have Voted For

Back in 2019, The Sopranos creator David Chase told The New York Times that Tony Soprano would not be impressed with the then- and sadly now current occupant of the White House.

“He would think the guy was full of [expletive],” Chase 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.”

Granted, no one would know The Sopranos characters better than their creator, but Michael Imperioli feels pretty confident about what kind of hats would be all over the Bada Bing. And if you’ve had the misfortunate of hearing from Jersey Shore cast members and/or Real Housewives, then you know that this take fully tracks.

Via The Independent:

The Sopranos was always about more than mobsters; it was about capitalism and consumerism, human struggle and the banality of evil. It’s tempting to imagine what the show might look like set in America 2026. “The show is about the American dream, especially through the eyes of immigrants,” says Imperioli. “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.”

Adding further evidence to Imperioli’s take is how many unfortunate news stories we’ve seen in the past year where shocked Trump voters find themselves or a loved one snatched up by ICE because they thought that would happen to other people. On top of that, they don’t get a chance to prove that they’re “one of the good ones” because this administration has also decided that due process is too hard, so it’s just not gonna do it.

Ironically, there’s nothing more American than voting with the mentality of “I got mine, screw you,” and that’s how every Sopranos character treated every interaction from ordering pizza to giving your daughter a car that you very obviously took from her friend’s dad to settle a gambling debt. (Did I remember that right? Man, I should really rewatch that show.)