In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the
toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical
psychologist and Donald’s only niece, shines a bright light on the dark
history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man
who now threatens the world’s health, economic security, and social
fabric.
Mary Trump spent much of her childhood in her
grandparents’ large, imposing house in the heart of Queens, New York,
where Donald and his four siblings grew up. She describes a nightmare of
traumas, destructive relationships, and a tragic combination of neglect
and abuse. She explains how specific events and general family patterns
created the damaged man who currently occupies the Oval Office,
including the strange and harmful relationship between Fred Trump and
his two oldest sons, Fred Jr. and Donald.
A firsthand witness to
countless holiday meals and interactions, Mary brings an incisive wit
and unexpected humor to sometimes grim, often confounding family events.
She recounts in unsparing detail everything from her uncle Donald’s
place in the family spotlight and Ivana’s penchant for regifting to her
grandmother’s frequent injuries and illnesses and the appalling way
Donald, Fred Trump’s favorite son, dismissed and derided him when he
began to succumb to Alzheimer’s.
Numerous pundits, armchair
psychologists, and journalists have sought to parse Donald J. Trump’s
lethal flaws. Mary L. Trump has the education, insight, and intimate
familiarity needed to reveal what makes Donald, and the rest of her
clan, tick. She alone can recount this fascinating, unnerving saga, not
just because of her insider’s perspective but also because she is the
only Trump willing to tell the truth about one of the world’s most
powerful and dysfunctional families.
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