"Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man" is a book written by Mary L. Trump, granddaughter of Donald Trump. The book was published on July 14 by Simon & Schuster after a legal battle in New York, where the court finally decided to allow the book to be published.
Dr. Mary L. Trump, clinical psychologist, is the daughter of Fred Trump Jr., the late brother of Donald Trump. According to the publisher, she has taught graduate students the subjects of trauma, psychopathology and developmental psychology. Mary L. Trump has written a dissertation topic on victims of persecution and conducted research on schizophrenia.
After her uncle's presidential campaign, Mary got in touch with The New York Times where she submitted the Trump family tax documents, as an anonymous source. The documents were used for a 2018 article detailing Trump financial fraud, an article that won the Pulitzer Prize for Best Explanatory Reporting by David Barstow, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner.
In the 240-page book, Mary explains how "her toxic family" created "the most dangerous man on the planet." "No one knows how Donald Trump became better than his family. Unfortunately most are silent out of loyalty or fear. "I am not one of them," she wrote. The White House spokesman says the book is "full of lies."
But what is treated in it? A summary of the book was made by Kaelyn Forde, a reporter who collaborates with ABC News, Al Jazeera, InStyle, Glamor, Allure and Refinery29.
Donald Trump kept a list of women he wanted to date but had not accepted.
Mary, now 55, writes that in her late twenties, Donald Trump called her on his private jet and asked her to write "Trump: The Art of the Comeback," a book that was later co-authored by Trump authors. and Kate Bohner. Mary accepted and was given an office before the Trump Organization. But Trump refused the niece's requests to interview her, while talking only about golf, gossip and women. She says she found a 10-page transcript of a Trump recording that talked about a lot of things, just not about business. "It was a summary of the women he wanted to date, but after they refused, he suddenly burst into swearing, which was the worst and ugliest swearing I have ever heard," she says. From that moment on, Mary stopped asking for an interview with her uncle.
The children of the Trump family were abandoned by their mother and father neglected
Mary writes that after the birth of Robert, the family's youngest son, Donald Trump's mother suffered health complications that resulted in hysterectomy (surgical removal of the uterus) and oophorectomy (surgical removal of the ovary or ovaries). Mary writes that her absence - both physical and emotional - created a void in the children's lives.
Fred Trump Sr., Donald Trump's father, was a "high-functioning sociopath," a term used for people who exhibit normal daily behavior, have a typical job or marriage, but conceal behaviors that tend to be manipulative and exploitative. Mary says Donald Trump's father saw the relationship with the children as a weakness. Then, she adds, Donald Trump replaced the absence of parents with feelings of "bullying, disrespect and aggression."
The Trump family was a misogynistic, anti-LGBTQ family with prejudices and discrimination against Jews
Mary says Donald Trump's father removed his daughters (Maryanne and Elizabeth) completely and focused his ambitions on the boys. Mary, who is a lesbian, points out that she hid homosexuality from the family because of their homophobic views. The family also used expressions that stereotyped Jews.
Donald Trump's sister considered him a "clown" who would never win the election
When Donald announced he would run for president in 2015, Mary writes, the family thought "he just wanted free publicity for his brand." "He's a clown," my aunt Marianne said during one of our lunches at the time. "This will never happen."
Mary writes that her aunt's position as a federal judge prevented her from speaking publicly against him, but that before Donald Trump's 2018 meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, Maryanne called the White House and said: “Tell him that his older sister called him for advice. Be prepared. Learn from those who know what they are doing. And leave Twitter at home. ”
Donald Trump stared at his niece strangely and flirtatiously
Mary writes that she traveled to his residence in Palm Beach, Florida, while working on the book. She had lunch with her uncle and his second wife, Marla Maples. Since it was an informal setting, Mary wore swimwear and shorts for lunch in the yard. "Donald was wearing a golf suit and looked at me as if he had never seen me before. When I approached Marla said: 'Oh Lord Mary, you have an amazing body. Donald! I was flushed, I was confused. ”
