--- title: Jimmy Kimmel Dubs Trump Cohen Tape Over Mob Movies description: Jimmy Kimmel wants you to see that tape of Donald Trump and Michael Cohen over scenes from The Godfather and Goodfellas. canonical: https://time.com/5349765/jimmy-kimmel-cohen-tape/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-07-26T15:16:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:54:02.118Z og:title: Jimmy Kimmel Turned That Tape of Michael Cohen and President Trump Into a Mafia Movie og:description: These are scenes from the new movie The Don og:url: https://time.com/5349765/jimmy-kimmel-cohen-tape/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt88b18ae9d5678d09/6989365b656a3f916dbd5110/jimmykimmelontrumpcohenmobmovie.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1387 og:image:height: 780 og:image:alt: JimmyKimmelonTrumpCohenMobMovie og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jimmy Kimmel Turned That Tape of Michael Cohen and President Trump Into a Mafia Movie twitter:description: These are scenes from the new movie The Don twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt88b18ae9d5678d09/6989365b656a3f916dbd5110/jimmykimmelontrumpcohenmobmovie.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jimmy Kimmel Turned That Tape of Michael Cohen and President Trump Into a Mafia Movie > Sponsored content. 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The interview Cohen’s attorney [Lanny Davis](https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2018/07/25/trump-cohen-tapes-lanny-davis-cpt-sot-vpx.cnn) recently gave to CNN. “The only people who use cash are drug dealers and mobsters,” Davis said during the interview. And just like that, he supplied Kimmel with the ultimate fodder. “When you hear Trump and Cohen talk, it does feel like they’re characters out of a mobster movie or drug dealers or something and since we only have the audio, no video, we decided to give this the Hollywood treatment,” Kimmel said. He then played iconic clips from _The Godfather_, _Scarface_, and _The Sopranos_ overlaid wth the audio from the taping. Perhaps the lightest moment of clip comes when Trump requests a Coke, a snippet Kimmel felt was right in line with James Conway’s (Robert De Niro) diner oder in _Goodfellas_. 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