So much for the suppression effort: Despite a lawsuit from the president’s brother claiming that Mary Trump’s new book violates a non-disclosure provision from 2001, details from Too Much and Never Enough are pouring out prior to its publication next week. If former national security adviser John Bolton’s recent book dives into the abject failures of the president’s time in office, Trump’s niece brings her focus closer to home, examining how the notoriously toxic family dynamic may have resulted in some of his less-than-admirable character traits. (And unlike Bolton, Mary Trump’s volume isn’t marred by the asterisk that it should all have been testimony.) Below is everything we know about her book from pre-publication excerpts — which White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany called a “book of falsehoods,” despite not seeing a copy of it.
Mary Trump, a clinical psychologist, identifies the president as a narcissistIt shouldn’t be a total surprise that someone with a lifelong connection to the president considers him to have an inflated sense of his importance, a want for attention, and a lack of empathy for others. But Mary Trump, who got her Ph.D. in clinical psychology in 2009, claims her uncle expresses all nine clinical criteria for a diagnosis of narcissistic personality disorder.
“Nothing is ever enough,” she writes of the president. “This is far beyond garden-variety narcissism; Donald is not simply weak, his ego is a fragile thing that must be bolstered every moment because he knows deep down that he is nothing of what he claims to be.” Elsewhere she writes that “Donald’s pathologies are so complex and his behaviors so often inexplicable that coming up with an accurate and comprehensive diagnosis would require a full battery of psychological and neuro-physical tests, that he’ll never sit for.”
She claims many of his behavioral issues stem from his relationship with his fatherIt’s a go-to assessment for a psychologist, but Mary Trump’s portrait of the family dynamic asserts that Fred Trump’s callous and neglectful treatment of his children is a root cause of the president’s own tendency to lash out at those around him. “By limiting Donald’s access to his own feelings and rendering many of them unacceptable, Fred [Trump Sr.] perverted his son’s perception of the world and damaged his ability to live in it,” Mary Trump writes. Later, she states that her uncle’s ego “is a fragile and inadequate barrier between him and the real world, which, thanks to his father’s money and power, he never had to negotiate by himself.” Mary Trump adds that the president was able to navigate the family environment because “his personality served his father’s purpose. That’s what sociopaths do: they co-opt others and use them toward their own ends — ruthlessly and efficiently, with no tolerance for dissent or resistance.”
Trump allegedly cheated on his SATsLast year, the president stayed mostly quiet as the country’s attention was drawn, briefly, to the FBI’s Operation Varsity Blues, which focused on wealthy parents bribing college admissions offices and paying for inflated test scores. In her book, Mary Trump claims that her uncle engaged in a similar practice — cheating is his “way of life” — paying a surrogate to take the SAT on his behalf, which helped him get accepted to the University of Pennsylvania. She writes that her aunt, Maryanne Trump, had been “doing his homework,” but was unable to take the college entrance test for him. “To hedge his bets he enlisted Joe Shapiro, a smart kid with a reputation for being a good test taker, to take his SATs for him,” Mary Trump writes. “Donald, who never lacked for funds, paid his buddy well.”
Trump went to a movie on the night his brother died alone in the hospitalIt’s been public knowledge for years that Mary Trump’s father, Freddy Trump, was ostracized in the family. “Donald is worth ten of you,” Mary Trump writes, describing an exchange in which Donald and Freddy Trump’s father shouted at his namesake in front of employees. According to the book, Freddy Trump, who suffered from alcoholism throughout his life, was sent to the hospital by himself on the night he died from an alcohol-induced heart attack at the age of 42. His brother Donald went to the movies.
Trump allegedly made a lurid comment about his nieceIn the early 1990s, when Mary Trump was 29, she recalled an incident at Mar-a-Lago in which her uncle saw her in a bathing suit and said, “Holy shit, Mary. You’re stacked.”
“I was twenty-nine and not easily embarrassed, but my face reddened, and I suddenly felt self-conscious,” Mary Trump writes. “I pulled my towel around my shoulders. It occurred to me that nobody in my family, outside of my parents and brother, had ever seen me in a bathing suit.”
Trump “barely even knew” who his daughter-in-law was in 2017In April 2017, the president’s extended family was welcomed to a dinner at the White House to celebrate the birthdays of Maryanne and Elizabeth Trump, the president’s sisters. At the dinner, Mary Trump remembers that her uncle gestured toward Eric Trump’s wife, Lara, saying that he “barely even knew who the fuck she was, honestly, but then she gave a great speech during the campaign in Georgia supporting me.” Eric and Lara Trump had been married for eight years at that point.
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