What does the explosive book of Mary Trump, Donald Trump's niece contain?
In this book, Donald Trump's niece paints a portrait of a dysfunctional family plagued by "lusts, betrayals and fratricidal tensions".
A bestseller even before its publication. In a book to be published on July 14, Mary Trump, the niece of the American president, paints an uncompromising portrait of her family. The release of the book, titled Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man, has was brought forward to July 14, and is already number 1 in pre-sales for books on Amazon.
Presented by publisher Simon & Schuster as a book of revelations about three months before the US presidential election, the book sparked a legal battle: a brother of Donald Trump, Robert, having tried, in vain, to block him in court. Mary Trump, psychologist, is the daughter of Fred Trump Jr., the president's older brother, who died in 1981 at the age of 42 as a result of his alcoholism.
A family climate of "lusts, betrayals and fratricidal tensions"
In her 240-page book, the 55-year-old woman, who has long cut ties with her uncle who became president, mixes "family history and psychological analysis of her uncle," according to the Washington Post. She explains in particular how her father was despised and "laughed at" by her "domineering" grandfather, Fred Sr. And how Donald Trump, seven years younger than Fred Junior, learned "to lie to show off himself" after having witnessed the humiliations suffered by his seven-year-old elder.
According to the New York Times, the president's niece describes a family climate of "lusts, betrayals and fratricidal tensions" to explain how Donald Trump acquired "twisted behavior". "Donald's pathologies are so complex and his behaviors often so inexplicable that establishing a complete diagnosis would require a whole battery of psychological and neurophysical tests that he will never pass," she writes, according to the New York daily.
She also claims that the ex-New York real estate mogul paid someone to take the US SAT admission tests in her place, according to the New York Times, which does not say whether she provides evidence. "Donald, following my grandfather's example and with the complicity, silence and inaction of his brothers and sisters, destroyed my father. I cannot let him destroy my country", writes the niece again, cited by CNN.
"Trump's ego is a fragile thing"
She says she sees in Donald Trump a child who would say that "nobody loves him". "Trump's ego is a fragile thing that must be strengthened at every moment because he knows deep down that he is nothing of what he claims to be," she explains. Mary Trump also tries to explain certain current behaviors of the president by his childhood. “Donald Trump started believing that he couldn't do anything wrong, so he stopped trying to do anything right. He became bolder and more aggressive because he was rarely challenged or held responsible by the only person in the world who mattered to him - his father, "she said, CNN still reports.
According to the billionaire's niece, the support Donald received from his father was decisive in his drive to erect the name "Trump" as his personal mark, that of a "master of the universe" with innate abilities to deals. "The pleasure he took in portraying this image, his father's favors and the material security his father gave him gave [Donald Trump] the confidence, but not deserved, to sell himself as a rich playboy and as a a brilliant businessman who made himself, when it has always been a farce, "writes Mary Trump.
