![]() ![]() Her book alleges that Trump paid someone to take a university entrance exam on his behalf the White House has denied this. I think with my grandfather it was also because he was not a fully human being.” My dad had a great sense of humour he was a very funny guy and did know how to laugh. When you are able to laugh you’re also letting your guard down and that was frowned upon. What about Mary, a licensed psychologist? “No, and my grandfather didn’t laugh either. In 2016, the Nation magazine ran an article headlined: “Have You Ever Seen Donald Trump Laugh?” It pointed out that almost no one has. ![]() That’s much more important, so whether he would describe himself as a white supremacist or not, he’s certainly acting like one.” He’s doing racist things that are endangering people of colour in this country. I would say he behaves like a white supremacist, certainly. Would she also use terms such as fascist and white supremacist? “I don’t think he has any political ideology. Mary is convinced that her uncle is racist. In my grandparents’ house, it was just commonplace and there was nothing, unfortunately, remarkable about it.” If my dad had said it outside of the house when we were with him that would have stood out, but he never did. “Honestly, no, because it was just this thing that happened. Can she remember a specific example of Trump using the N-word? Racist and antisemitic language was common, Mary has said during media interviews to promote the book, noting the Trumps lived in what was then an all-white suburb in Queens, New York. Photograph: does not take much imagination to picture torturous family dinners with giant clashing egos. The other lesson he learned was that being humiliated was the worst thing that could happen to a person and he would do everything in his power to avoid the feeling of humiliation.”ĭonald Trump as a child. “Certainly, in the case of my dad, who was the oldest son, heir apparent and namesake, there was harsh discipline and humiliation which Donald, seven and a half years younger, was able to witness and learn very specific lessons from: don’t be like Freddy, don’t be kind, don’t be generous, don’t have ‘frivolous’ interests. He had no real human feeling and he treated his children variously with contempt. But deep down I have no problem describing him as a sociopath. “If you met him,” says Mary of her grandfather, “you would think he was cheerful and positive, but also intimidating and not a warm person. Spurning his eldest son, Freddy, he settled on Donald, deciding that his second son’s “arrogance and bullying”, and willingness to lie and cheat, were just what the office needed. Mary writes that he showed little interest in his five children other than grooming an heir for his property business. This ruthless New York workaholic slept about four hours a night and was driven by money. When I speak to Mary, 55, over the phone from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, she describes how her “sociopath” grandfather made Trump the man he is today, reflects on the burden of carrying the Trump name and warns against the prospect of the president’s children running for political office.įred Trump is the villain of the piece. ![]() The book is a portrait of something rotten at the heart of a white suburban family’s rapacious pursuit of the American dream. He learned that being humiliated was the worst thing that could happen to a person and he would do everything in his power to avoid that feeling Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man sold nearly a million copies on its first day of publication last week, after a failed attempt by the US president’s younger brother Robert to block it in court. There is no understanding Donald Trump without understanding his “malignantly dysfunctional family”, according to Mary, the first member of the clan to publish a Trump biography and question his fitness for office. Good job, Freddy.’ He couldn’t do anything at that point to garner any respect or get credit for anything, even if it was saving their mother.” When they came back in, it was literally like my dad had just taken out the garbage: ‘Oh, yeah. It was a sort of awkward, embarrassing thing that Gam choked. “Nobody else moved everybody kept eating. ![]()
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