Popis
In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the
toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist
and Donald’s only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their
family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens
the world’s health, economic security and social fabric. Mary Trump spent much of her childhood in her grandparents’ large,
imposing house in New York, where Donald and his four siblings grew up. She
describes a nightmare of traumas, destructive relationships and a tragic
combination of neglect and abuse. She explains how specific events and
general family patterns created the damaged man who currently occupies the
Oval Office, including the strange and harmful relationship between Fred
Trump and his two oldest sons, Fred Jr. and Donald. A first-hand witness, Mary brings an incisive wit and unexpected humour to
sometimes grim, often confounding family events. She recounts in unsparing
detail everything from her uncle Donald’s place in the family spotlight and
Ivana’s penchant for regifting to her grandmother’s frequent injuries and
illnesses and the appalling way Donald, Fred Trump’s favourite son,
dismissed and derided him when he began to succumb to Alzheimer’s. Numerous pundits, armchair psychologists and journalists have sought to
explain Donald Trump’s lethal flaws. Mary Trump has the education, insight
and intimate familiarity needed to reveal what makes Donald, and the rest
of her clan, tick. She alone can recount this fascinating, unnerving saga,
not just because of her insider’s perspective but also because she is the
only Trump willing to tell the truth about one of the world’s most powerful
and dysfunctional families.
