John Cazale doesn’t deserve any of this. On Monday night a video of CNN anchor Chris Cuomo confronting a man who called him “Fredo”—as in, the cowardly Corleone son Cazale played in The Godfather—went viral. In his profane rant Cuomo says that using the term is akin to using the n-word—a claim that has opened the portal to Twitter’s most hellish dimension yet, with both Donald Trump and Donald Trump Jr. weighing in on Cuomo’s remarks.

“Punk-ass bitches from the right call me Fredo,” Cuomo says in the video. “My name is Chris Cuomo. I’m an anchor on CNN. Fredo is from The Godfather. He was a weak brother. And they’re using it as an Italian aspersion.” He then asks the people he’s confronting if any of them are Italian, before adding: “It’s an insult to your fuckin’ people. It’s like the n-word for us.”

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Repeat: He said it’s like the n-word. Like…the n-word. Like? The n-word? Quick reminder that this is not the first time Cuomo has compared something that is not like the n-word to the n-word: In 2017, he apologized after saying that being called “fake news” was “the equivalent of the n-word for journalists.”

The viral video doesn’t end there, though. Cuomo also physically threatens the man in front of him, saying he’ll “fucking ruin [his] shit” and “fucking throw [him] down these stairs like a fuckin’ punk.” In a subsequent statement, CNN spokesperson Matt Dornic said, “Chris Cuomo defended himself when he was verbally attacked with the use of an ethnic slur in an orchestrated setup. We completely support him.”

This is not the first time poor Fredo has been flung into recent political discourse. In 2017, the Daily Beast reported that Trump’s inner circle had taken to calling Trump Jr. “Fredo” behind his back, thanks to Junior’s tendency toward making bumbling missteps and his desperate thirst for his father’s approval. Two years later it was also reported that longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone had been inspired by The Godfather Part II—though he was taking cues from Frank Pentangeli, the character who lies to Congress under oath, rather than Vito’s most maligned son.

Naturally it didn’t take long for the Trumps to start tweeting about Cuomo-gate—though neither father nor son seemed to make the connection between Cuomo’s Fredo freakout and their family’s own brush with the term.

“Hey @ChrisCuomo, take it from me, ‘Fredo’ isn’t the N word for Italians, it just means you’re the dumb brother. 😉,” Trump Jr. tweeted on Monday, evidently without irony.

He also tweeted an old clip from Cuomo’s CNN program, showing commentator Ana Navarro calling Trump Jr. “Fredo”—which did not elicit a reaction from Cuomo at the time: “Does CNN’s head of PR still think ‘Fredo’ is an ethnic slur after watching this? Because if it’s the N word for Italians like @ChrisCuomo says, I don’t understand why Chris seems so at ease with someone saying it here. An excuse just as fake as his news. #FredoCuomo,” wrote Junior.

President Trump also tweeted about the incident, writing Tuesday morning that he “thought Chris was Fredo also.” He later added, “Would Chris Cuomo be given a Red Flag for his recent rant? Filthy language and a total loss of control. He shouldn’t be allowed to have any weapon. He’s nuts!”