Court approves publication: these are the scandalous phrases of Trump’s niece’s book
The author of the book defines the president’s father as “a high-level sociopath” who strictly followed two rules: “never show weakness” and “never apologize”
Mary L. Trump, psychologist and niece of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, in a revealing memoir portrays the magnate’s father, Fred, as a dominant patriarch, with a heart of stone, head of a “malignant dysfunctional family” that, according to her partly explains the president’s empathy problems.
“The divisive environment my grandfather created in the family is the water that Donald has always swum in, and that division continues to benefit him at the expense of everyone else”, she describes in his book “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created The World’s Most Dangerous Man”, to be published at the end of July.
In statements collected by The Guardian, Mary L. Trump said that the head of State “is wearing down the country, just as my father did (with the family). It is weakening our ability to be kind, to believe in forgiveness, concepts that have never had any meaning for him”.
Mary, 55, is the daughter of Trump’s older brother, Freddy, who died in 1981 at age 42 in the midst of a fight against alcoholism, one of the reasons why the President, allegedly, does not consume alcohol.
According to the author, the triumphs took sibling rivalry to a new level. “In the 1950s, the family was deeply divided in terms of gender” and at that time Trump’s father and his wife, Mary, “were never partners”, to the point that girls were her responsibility and the boys were his.
So, “Donald saw his younger brother Robert as weaker and therefore enjoyed tormenting him. He repeatedly hid Robert’s favorite toys, pretending he had no idea where they were”, says Mary L.
“The last time it happened, when Robert’s tantrum got out of control, Donald threatened to dismantle the trucks in front of him if he didn’t stop crying. Desperate to save them, Robert ran to his mother”, recounted the author.
“Mary’s solution was to hide the trucks in the attic, effectively punishing Robert, who had done nothing wrong, and leaving Donald feeling invincible”, says the writer, adding that although “he was not rewarded for his selfishness, stubbornness and cruelty, he was not punished either”.
A spiteful being
Her niece relates that Trump that even if he tormented Robert, he once received a spoonful of his own medicine: “When Freddy, at age 14, threw a bowl of mashed potatoes on his brother’s head (Donald), wounding his pride so deeply that it even upset him in 2017, when her sister Maryanne brought up the anecdote in a toast at the White House”.
Mary L. says that family dinners became uncomfortable with certain taboo subjects, one of them was: “where do babies come from”. “There were certain things that Fred did not tolerate: keep your elbows off the table, this is not a horse stable”, he exclaimed repeatedly. Even with a knife in his hand, he would hit with the handle against the forearm of anyone who ignored his rule.
The author defines Trump’s father as “a high-level sociopath” who strictly followed two rules: “never show weakness” and “never apologize”. “If Freddy ever said, ‘Sorry, Dad’, Fred “would make fun of him. He wanted his oldest son to be a killer”.
That particular point, the President took very seriously, says Mary L. “The lesson he learned, in its simplest form, was that it was wrong to be like Freddy: Fred did not respect his eldest son, so Donald did not respect him either”.
The psychological trait of being a liar
Trump and his brothers frequently lied to their father. “For Freddy, lying was defensive, not simply a way to avoid his father’s disapproval or avoid punishment, as it was for others, but a way to survive”. Meanwhile, “for Donald, lying was a way to self-magnify and seek to convince other people that he was better than he really was”.
Mary goes on to say that things hardly improved when the brothers became adults. “Freddy hated working for his father’s real estate business and quit to become an airline pilot. Fred Trump had little compassion for his oldest son. As the employees watched, he once yelled at him: “Donald is worth 10 times more than you”.
“Donald did not bear a similar contempt because his personality served his father’s purpose”, writes Mary L. “That’s what sociopaths do: they co-opt others and use them for their own ends, ruthlessly and efficiently, without tolerance for dissent or resistance”.
The text states that in 1981, when his older brother went to the hospital on what would be his last night alive, no family member accompanied him. Even Donald preferred to go to the cinema.
The White House response
The Guardian states that when White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany was asked to comment on the book on behalf of Trump, her response was: “I have to read the book, but it sure is a book of lies”.
Meanwhile, this Wednesday the counselor to the president, Kellyanne Conway, played down the issue. “As for books in general, the facts are obviously not verified, no one is under oath. I know there is always a rush to give credibility to whoever gets the president that day”, he said, quoted by Independent.
On the other hand, Robert, the president’s younger brother, sued Mary L. to block her publication, citing an agreement made 20 years ago between family members that arose from another dispute over the inheritance of Fred Trump. However, a New York appeals court authorized the publication of the book.
“He is a clown”
The author says that in 2016, when Trump ran for president, his sister Maryanne, who used to do homework for him, considered: “He is a clown, this will never happen”.
Likewise, she also writes that she rejected an invitation to attend her uncle’s election night gala in New York in 2016, convinced that “I could not contain my euphoria when the victory of (Hillary) Clinton was announced”.
That night, she says, she wandered into her home a few hours after Trump’s victory was announced, fearful that voters “would have chosen to make the United States a macro version of my malignantly dysfunctional family”.
Weeks ago, in his book “The Room Where It Happened: A Memoir from the White House”, former Trump National Security Adviser John Bolton revealed details of talks he had with the President, despite the tycoon’s failed attempts at blocking the publication of the text.
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