Into Ivy, helped destroy her dad
family real estate company to pursue his passion of becoming an airplane pilot — a deciwhile, sion Fred Trump Sr., considered a “betrayal,” Mary Trump writes.
She recounts one incident when Donald Trump came to visit her father’s home in Marblehead Harbor, Mass.
“You know, dad’s really sick of you wasting your life,” Donald Trump told his brother over dinner, according to the book. “He says he’s embarrassed by you. Dad’s right about you: you’re nothing but a glorified bus driver.”
The night Fred Trump Jr., died, his family had sent him alone by ambulance to Jamaica Hospital in Queens, according to Mary Trump.
Even though he had suffered a heart attack, no one came to visit him, Mary Trump writes, and she didn’t find out until her dad was already dead.
Donald Trump, meanMary went to see a movie that same night, she writes. Trump says she firmly believes her uncle is unfit for public office and anticipates November’s election with fear.
“If he is afforded a second term, it would be the end of American democracy,” she writes. “Donald, following the lead of my grandfather and with complicity, silence, and inaction from his siblings, destroyed my father. I can’t let him destroy my country.”
She says many of Trump’s own relatives agree.
“What the f—k is wrong with them?” Mary Trump quotes the president’s older sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, as once telling her of his white evangelical supporters. “The only time Donald went to church was when the cameras were there. It’s mind-boggling. He has no principles. None!”
“He’s a clown,” Trump
Barry said of her brother on another occasion, according to the book.
Trump Barry, a former federal judge, could not be reached for comment on Tuesday.
Another overarching theme of Mary Trump’s book is her poking holes in the president’s depiction of himself as a self-made businessman.
She notes that many of his business ventures fell flat and says he wouldn’t have accomplished anything if his father wasn’t there to pick up the pieces and provide him with money.
“Does anybody even believe the bulls—t that he’s a self-made man?” she writes that she asked Trump Barry during the 2016 campaign. “What has he even accomplished on his own?”
“Well,” Trump Barry responded, “he has had five bankruptcies.”