Trump's niece describes him as a narcissist traumatized by his father
The controversial book written by Donald Trump's niece, Mary Trump, about the US president and his family describes him as an unprincipled narcissist who has embraced deception as a "way of life" after being traumatized by his father, which prevented him from "developing and experiencing the full spectrum of human emotions."
This is revealed by the advances of the work, which is scheduled to go on sale on July 14, which the New York Times and the Washington Post have published this Tuesday, and which give details of the decades of family dysfunction of the Trumps who have shaped the current US leader who, according to Simon & Schuster, "now threatens the health, economic security and social fabric of the world."
The Times highlights in its article that Mary Trump, a clinical psychologist, has no doubt that the president is a narcissist, since he meets nine clinical criteria that point to this type of mental disorder. And yet, she points out, that diagnosis also doesn't reflect all of Trump's psychological problems.
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"The fact is that Donald's pathologies are so complex and his behaviors are often so inexplicable that reaching an accurate and complete diagnosis would require a long series of psychological and neurophysical tests that he will never sit down to do," says Mary Trump in " Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man ”.
In addition, she assures that the magnate turned politician has been so secluded most of his adult life, thanks to the fortune of his father, that “there is no way of knowing if he would prosper, or even survive, alone in the real world".
There is no way of knowing if he would prosper, or even survive, by himself in the real world. "
Mary Trump, who has been unrelated to the core of the Trump family for years, also describes her uncle as a product of an extremely domineering father, Fred Trump, whom she always wanted to please.
The psychologist she is the daughter of Donald Trump's older brother, Fred Jr., who failed in his attempt to take over the extensive real estate businesses of the family patriarch and ended up dying at the age of 42 from an illness related to alcohol abuse.
Donald, however, did well in his father's business and avoided his scorn because his personality was useful for the purposes of the patriarch, whom he describes as a “sociopath”: “That's what sociopaths do: they appropriate of other people and use them for their own ends, ruthlessly and efficiently, withou t tolerance towards disagreement or resistance ”.
She also says that Fred Trump limited Donald's access to his own feelings, thus "perverting his son's perceptions of the world and damaging his ability to live in it."
It also delves into various details of the life of the American president, such as the fact that Trump had someone else take his own university entrance exams, which received such a high score that they led him to be admitted to the prestigious business school of Wharton of the University of Pennsylvania.
The author reveals, on the other hand, that the president's own sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, described him as a "clown" when she announced her candidacy for the presidency, and was surprised by the support received by evangelical Christians in the United States. ., since the tycoon “has no principles. None!".
"The only time Donald went to church was when the cameras were there," Trump's sister told the book's author over a meal in 2015.
Mary Trump also remembers the death of his father in 1981, and stresses that the Trumps sent Fred Jr. to the hospital only the night he died, since no one accompanied him.
That same night, argues the psychologist, Donald Trump went to the movies.
This Monday, Simon & Schuster decided to advance the publication date of the controversial book from July 28 to July 14 due to the "high demand and extraordinary interest" that the work has aroused, according to a spokesperson for the publishing house.
The publisher's decision comes after an appeals court last week lifted a temporary lockdown imposed by a New York judge following a complaint by Donald Trump's brother, Robert Trump, who is trying to stop its publication.
According to the Trump family's allegations, the book violates a confidentiality agreement related to the estate of Fred Trump, who passed away in 1999.
However, Simon & Schuster claims that the copies have already been printed and distributed to sellers, while the date advance lowers the possibility that the book will be blocked again.
