Niece book: Twisted by cruel patriarch, cheated to get
President Trump likely suffers from a range of mental disorders developed over the course of a turbulent childhood, cheated his way into a top college, subjected his own brother to severe emotional abuse and turned himself into a scruples-free bully who could now bring about an “end to American democracy,” according to an upcoming book by his estranged niece.
Mary Trump, a clinical psychologist and the daughter of the president’s late brother, Fred Trump Jr., paints the scathing portrait of her famous uncle in “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,” a copy of which was obtained by the Daily News ahead of its July 14 publication.
Citing her doctorate in psywrites chology and years of observing Trump, the 55-year-old that the president meets “all nine criteria” to be diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder.
Trump also displays severe signs of antisocial personality disorder, a diagnosis most commonly known as “sociopathy,” according to the book. There could be a “long undiagnosed learning disability” at play as well, Mary Trump writes, citing her uncle’s inability to “process information.”
“Donald’s pathologies are so complex and his behaviors so often inexplicable that coming up with an accurate and comprehensive diagnosis would require a full battery of psychological and neuropsychological tests that he’ll never sit for,” she writes.
The president’s disregard for others and win-at-allcosts attitude was shaped from an early age by his father, according to the book, which Mary Trump says is based on memory, an array of documents and interviews with dozens of the president’s relatives, friends and associates. She describes Trump’s father, Fred Trump Sr., as an abusive patriarch who taught his “favorite” son to behave like a “killer” and see everything through a “prism of money.”
Abiding by ethics and the law was never something the president’s father instilled in him, according to Mary Trump.
While a student at Fordham University in the
Bronx, Donald Trump paid a “smart” friend to take an SAT test for him because he wanted to transfer to the Wharton School of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania, but feared his standardized test scores were too low, according to the book.
“Donald, who never lacked for funds, paid his buddy well,” Mary Trump writes.
She says Trump “got what he wanted,” transferring to the Wharton School in the fall of 1966 after the brainy buddy juiced up his SAT score. Trump has called his prestigious alma matter “the best school in the world” where he learned “super genius stuff.”
Trump’s family has filed a lawsuit attempting to block the book from being published, alleging it violates a nondisclosure agreement Mary Trump signed in the early 2000s as part of a settlement over the estate of Fred
Trump Sr.
Charles Harder, an attorney representing the Trump family in the legal action, did not return a request for comment Tuesday.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Matthews accused Mary Trump of making up the explosive allegations to sell books and called the SAT anecdote “completely false.”
“President Trump has been in office for over three years working on behalf of the American people — why speak out now?” Matthews said.
Mary Trump dedicates a large chunk of her 214-page memoir to her father, who died at 42 in 1981 after a long battle with alcoholism.
Though she doesn’t explicitly blame them, Mary Trump says her grandfather and uncle played a large role in her dad’s demise.
His struggle with alcohol grew worse after he quit the