Trump ‘was emotionally abused by his bully father’
Psychologist niece’s sensational claims in bombshell new book
DONALD Trump was emotionally abused as a child by his bullying father, a bombshell new book claims.
His niece Mary Trump, who is estranged from the US President, brands him ‘Frankenstein without a conscience’.
The book paints a picture of a damaged social inadequate who has embraced ‘cheating as a way of life’.
Psychologist Miss Trump, 55, says the ‘narcissistic’ president was ‘destroyed’ by his workaholic property developer father Frederick Christ Trump, who mercilessly bullied his five children.
She claims Fred – the son of German immigrants – crushed his son’s ‘ability to develop and experience the entire spectrum of human emotion’.
Miss Trump believes Donald’s world view was shaped during childhood by his desperate desire to avoid paternal disapproval – and ultimately the only person he is trying to impress with his endless empty bravado is Fred, who died in 1999 aged 93.
She says love ‘meant nothing’ to New York tycoon Fred – who passed on his empire to Donald when he died – and he wanted only obedience.
Miss Trump writes that when Donald’s Scottish-born mother fell ill when he was two he became ‘totally dependent’ on a father ‘who also caused him terror’.
She adds: ‘By limiting Donald’s access to his own feelings and rendering many of them unacceptable, Fred perverted his son’s perception of the world and damaged his ability to live in it.’
Donald Trump’s mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, was born in a croft house in the village of Tong on Lewis in 1912.
She lived there until she was 17 when she emigrated to the US on a ship named the S.S Transylvania. A passenger list from 1930 shows she gave her occupation as ‘maid’.
She settled in New York, where she reportedly met Fred Trump, a successful builder and construction firm owner, at a dance.
The pair married in 1936 and settled in the suburban area Queens, to the east of Manhattan, at the time a haven for Western European immigrants. A census for 1940 shows the couple went on to have two children and employed a Scottish maid.
Miss Trump, the daughter of Donald’s late older brother Fred Junior, has two axes to grind against her Republican uncle – she is a Democrat and became embroiled in a legal battle with him and his siblings over money.
She believes her psychologically-damaged uncle ‘meets the criteria for anti-social personality disorder, which in its most severe form is generally considered sociopathy’.
Comparing Trump to Mary
‘Cheating as a way of life’
Shelley’s Dr Frankenstein, she says that while the fictional character was appalled by the monster he created, the president ‘glories in its anger and its destruction’.
She adds: ‘He is Frankenstein without the conscience.’
She reveals that Trump’s older sister, Maryanne, a retired federal judge, scoffed at his White House run and called him a ‘clown’. The book claims even Trump didn’t take his political candidacy seriously and ‘simply wanted the free publicity for his brand’.
His family were particularly amazed by evangelical Christians flocking to Trump, who only attends church when cameras are following him, said his sister Maryanne.
‘It’s mind boggling. But that’s all about his base. He has no principles. None!,’ she reportedly told her niece.
While his niece believes Donald Trump may even believe his stream of lies, she adds: ‘It’s just another way for him to see what he can get away with, and so far he’s got away with everything.’ Too Much And Never Enough: How My Family Created The World’s Most Dangerous Man is due to be published next week.