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Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man Kindle Edition

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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 the heart of Queens, 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 occupied the Oval Office, including the strange and harmful relationship between Fred Trump and his two oldest sons, Fred Jr. and Donald.

A firsthand witness to countless holiday meals and interactions, Mary brings an incisive wit and unexpected humor 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 favorite son, dismissed and derided him when he began to succumb to Alzheimer’s.

Numerous pundits, armchair psychologists, and journalists have sought to parse Donald J. Trump’s lethal flaws. Mary L. 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.
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"[T]he most devastating, most valuable and all-around best Trump book since he started running for president. In the vast Trump literature, this one is something new...[W]hat this book does do is help us understand him, offering the most incisive rendering yet of why he is the way he is."Politico

"Mesmerizing beach reading and a memorable opposition research dump...It is salacious, venomous and well-sourced...Yet the narrative remains compelling."
The Guardian

"A delicious tell-all that does in fact tell all in a way one longs for a tell-all to do.”
Vogue

"Dripping with snideness, vibrating with rage, and gleaming with clarity—a deeply satisfying read."
Kirkus (starred review)

"Mary Trump’s compelling saga of one very unhappy family does more than just provide probing insights into her uncle’s disturbing inner world. It’s also a first-rate primer on the chaotic inner workings of an administration that has shocked the world by failing to take the basic steps required to keep Americans safe during the coronavirus pandemic.
Boston Globe

"After many, many Trump books, this is an essential one."
Vanity Fair

"[A] deftly written account of cross-generational trauma...Mary Trump brings to this account the insider perspective of a family member, the observational and analytical abilities of a clinical psychologist and the writing talent of a former graduate student in comparative literature."
Washington Post

Mary’s clarity, training, discipline and sharp eye help make her a reliable narrator, and she’s a fluid, witty writer to boot…She’s a true insider in an era when “insider” accounts of the president are a dime-a-dozen — and that what she’s written is likely to be indelible.—
Bloomberg

"Mary L. Trump comes closer than anyone to describing the making of a seemingly heartless person who won his way to the White House...[A]n insightful, well-crafted memoir"
CNN

"You can see why President Trump doesn’t want anyone to read this thing. It gives the lie to many of his most cherished myths about himself."
Los Angeles Times

About the Author

Mary L. Trump holds a PhD from the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies and taught graduate courses in trauma, psychopathology, and developmental psychology. She lives with her daughter in New York.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0881YDNDD
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Simon & Schuster; 1st edition (July 14, 2020)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 14, 2020
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2173 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 236 pages
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Explains a Lot
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Explains a Lot
So what made Donny like he is? Mary Trump has gone to great lengths to explain. He learned from his father and has brought those skills to an even lower low. When he was in eighth grade his parents could not handle him so he was sent off to military school where he looked so dapper in his crisp uniform and tall feathered hat. Now we made him the commander in chief. He even cheated to get into college but that's pretty obvious when you listen to him talk at a fifth grade level.As an adult he tried to take control of his father's fortune and ace out all of his siblings. He mostly failed but found other ways to cheat them later. He was an expert at making a small fortune out of his father's huge fortune. His old man made a bigger fortune by expanding his real estate empire in New York. Donny tried the same thing with casinos in Atlantic City but discovered too late that he was cannibalizing his own market and went broke again there too. Good thing daddy was rich and could buy up millions of dollars in his gaming chips to bail him out under the table. And this guy was hailed as a "smart businessman" If we could see his tax returns we know that he is bankrupt both financially and of course morally.The most interesting part of Mary's story to me was her account of being hired to ghost write his book, "The Art of the Comeback". She had a very similar experience to that suffered by Tony Schwartz, the author of "The Art of the Deal". Both discovered that it was impossible to actually interview him and keep him focused on anything longer than a few minutes. "He has no attention span". Trump fired Mary but Schwartz had to follow Trump around for 18 months to put together his book. In July of 2016, Schwartz, feeling guilty, described the real Trump that he observed in an interview with Jane Mayer in the New Yorker.Trump tried to stop publication of Mary's book saying it violates her non-disclosure agreement further lending credibility to her work. If there is nothing to hide, no need for a non-disclosure agreement.Donny also says this book is full of lies, but considering his own aversion to the truth, this is probably his lie number 20,001.The book is only 211 pages long and Mary tends to repeat things but otherwise is quite readable. My copy was actually bound upside down, the pages are rotated 180 degrees from the hard cover. Maybe it is a rare error copy.I hope that Mary Trump makes a lot of money from writing this book and I thank her for telling the story.Be sure to VOTE in November.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2024
This is the most incredible insight into DJT! Everything that the author points out is accurate and timely! A very good explanation for DJT's behavior! I say blame his father!
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Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2020
Donald Trump's Niece Doesn't Write Gossipy Tell All, But Lays Bare Facts
Any American who cares about the state of our democracy today or the future of the country since Donald J. Trump stepped into the Oval Office should read Mary L. Trump's tale of a poster family of dysfunction – malignant family dysfunction.
A disheartening, but fascinatingly fast read, Mary L.'s writing is to be admired for its honesty and lack of tawdry gossip and sensationalism. Readers who expect any of that from this book will be sorely disappointed.
She's the no-nonsense narrator of a saga, just laying it all out for the world to see.
No doubt, it couldn't have been easy.
The outright villain of the story is Fred Trump, the pater familias. Mary portrays him as a ruthless businessman with a killer instinct who sought and took every advantage to achieve wealth, his only life’s ambition. He was the sole authority in his family of two daughters and three sons. The author shows him as a man whose wife counted for nothing and portrays her as not much of a parent either. There was obviously no love in this family.
Mary, 55, is the daughter of Fred Trump Jr., the president's older brother, who died in 1981 at the age of 42. She was 16 years when her father died of an alcohol related illness.
It became time for the rise of Daddy's favorite, Donald, who Mary said has "the killer instinct that Fred Trump Sr. so much admired."
Donald was Fred’s clone in almost all respects, save for one big one. But when Freddy washed out as the logical heir to the Trump companies and fortune – his heart wasn’t in real estate, he wanted to fly planes -- Fred went to Donald, who was even meaner than Fred – they were both, at the very least, sociopaths (Mary Trump prefers the term “high functioning sociopaths” to the term so many writers use about the Trumps, “malignant sociopaths”) – and, irony of ironies, as it turned out, Donald was a terrible businessman skilled only at losing money, not making it. THAT was the big, glaring difference between Killer Don and Killer Fred.
But he was flamboyant, Donny was, and he garnered a lot of press. Fred Trump loved the media attention his next-to-youngest child got. Mary Trump writes that Fred collected every news clipping that mentioned Donald and piled it high on tables.
People asked Mary Trump why she didn't tell her story before the 2016 election, thinking it may have changed the outcome then. But she competently explains why.
The gist is that too many people – like Fred and his news clippings and viewers of the popular "The Apprentice" reality tv show – might not have believed one iota of what she had to say, and that others would probably have dismissed her as a disinherited and disgruntled family member devastated by the ugly treatment her father received.
Mary lays out some facts in her book, too: the Trumps got many breaks, from government loans and political connections. In fact Fred Trump depended very much on these two examples of largesse; there was always the rumor, too, of alleged mob connections; and then there was the media, a fawning press that thought Donald was a scream, such good, funny copy, and made much of everything Donald Trump’s touched and did in order to sell more newspapers. Mary Trump adds how important power/dominance was to Fred Trump, and the keystone to what he taught his children.
“The person with the power (no matter how arbitrarily that power was conferred or attained) got to decide what was right and wrong."
Additional revelations from Mary's book: the Trumps did not like paying taxes and there is still much, it is said, to be uncovered about their financial dealings/manipulations and about the alleged setting up of dummy companies that might have hidden their massive profits.

New York Times investigative reporters, who first broke the story of the Trump family financial shenanigans – and told it so well – got the help of Mary, who took it upon herself to share private financial documents with them in 2018. She had debated doing this when first approached by these reporters and then realized it was her duty to expose the dealings
The author happens to be a licensed clinical psychologist whose specialty is psychopathology. She readily concedes Donald Trump is a sociopath and a narcissist who could not think more highly of himself, but she stops there, saying that his personality is much more complex and unknowable than any of us realizes, as he would never sit down for the battery of tests that would reveal the true story of what he is and why he behaves the way he does.
Hers is a scathing assessment of her uncle, but she is always controlled in her writings and in what conclusions she draws, leaving the reader to decide for themselves. No, this is not a gossipy tell-all but a reasoned and thoughtful account of what she saw and heard growing up a Trump and what she saw and heard as an adult (with a PhD in psychology behind her) interacting with her family.
She writes that her uncle “understands nothing about history, constitutional principles, geopolitics, diplomacy (or anything else, really.)” She never actually believed he could be elected president, as many of did not. But the morning after the 2016 vote was in, she shares with us her shock at hearing her "awful uncle" is now President of the United States, with almost 63 million voters who “had chosen to turn this country into a macro version of my malignantly dysfunctional family.”
This is not a pleasant read – the citing of the taking away of medical insurance from a terribly ill baby is repellent, as is the lack of love, the utter nastiness, shown to Freddy Trump’s family -- his wife and children -- and how the remaining family members after Fred Trump Sr.’s death cheated those family members out of the trust fund Fred had set up that they should have inherited. Meanwhile, they – the four remaining siblings -- further enriched themselves.
But suffice it to say, that after the lawsuits trying to prevent this powerful book from publication, the deed is done and the awfulness of the Trump family is exposed as a matter of record. There is no talking back – no explanations that will wash – at how repellently and malignantly they behaved to family members not in step with them.
But maybe Mary Trump has the last laugh. In the past week, the new book, titled "Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man," has sold more than 1.35 million copies, according to publisher Simon and Schuster.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2024
A quick interesting read. Well written. Great insight into Trump's immediate family and childhood. Although I think her politics gets in the way a little. I also don't think she gives Trump enough credit for his successes. He seems more competent than she says. Sure he's had business failures, but also successes.

I think her take is too extreme, too black/white. Trump doesn't seem as dysfunctional as she implies.
Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2020
re. Mary Trump's new book
(But first,..a quote from the book's beginning, because this pretty much sums up her reason for writing the book) :
"If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed.
The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
~ Victor Hugo, 'Les Miserables'
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It's proving to be an interesting read, and well-worth the 17 $ cost.
There is NO 'Drama'
She writes calmly pulls her reader into her world/trump world,... with a gentle hand.
She is not inclined to jab her finger accusingly or carelessly,... she simply walks ahead and acts as a guide,... her opinions are based on careful research and personal observations across the many years.
In the 75 pages I've read in the last two days, she merely seeks to explain the road her uncle has traveled and, as a trained psychologist, paint a clear picture of the world and PPL who shaped him to become what he's become. She's not really blaming him for his mixed-signal beginnings,... but she wants it known that we are shaped young by the world around us, primarily our parents, who were first of all shaped by their own,... So she provides a pretty amazing history going back a far as the beginnings of her grandparents,... especially on her father's/uncle's side. The man who shapes his son, who turns around and shapes his own. She explains that her uncle learned/was exposed to much that would twist his perception of the world and his future place in it.
Essentially she confirms a great deal about him that so many of us already believed, or at least suspected. Unlike him she is kind and articulate. She unfolds facts with a patient hand without exaggerations but she's reluctantly forced in her telling, to touch on the subject of his frequent cruelties and seemingly total lack of empathy or conscience.
I've seen where (before the book was released) a demand was made to know WHY she waited so long,... til NOW,... to write her book.
She explains that in the very Earliest of pages,... unlike him, she is not "doing it for the money" (which she's been accused by his camp of doing (I checked,... to date he supposedly has some (Google says 'At Least' 10) books in print,.. and he Has 'done-it-for-the-money' so That's a finger that shouldn't be pointed her way.
She's written it now because she is afraid of what will happen,... to our country and the PPL in it,... if he gets another term,.... she is terrified of what this cruel, un-feeling man will DO if he's allowed to do any more harm than he already has,...
It was the outbreak of the Covid Pandemic that finally forced her hand.
But back to the book's beginning (p.14)
She quotes lines from the 1994 film based on Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's novel, in which Dr. Frankenstein's (creation) says :
"I know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other"
She then adds a personal observation re. her uncle : " He doesn't plague himself with doubt about what he's creating around him. He is Proud of his (creature.)
He glories in it's anger and it's destruction and, while he cannot imagine its love, he believes with all his heart in it's rage. He is Frank. without conscience."
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Doug Joudrey
5.0 out of 5 stars More info on Donald Trump!
Reviewed in Canada on September 22, 2024
I liked the book......I bought it out of curiosity on the man himself, and author Mary Trump who is his niece knows him better than most people will. She does a good job of informing readers how this man thinks and acts. It makes sense and helps one understand how he got to be the way he is. This is a good read for anyone who wants to try to understand Donald Trump!
DM
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Reviewed in Germany on September 12, 2024
Bin ganz begeistert von der Schriftstellerin.
Glenn F
5.0 out of 5 stars Both fastinating and scary
Reviewed in Sweden on November 29, 2022
Well written, informative and entertaining on how this childish mad man came to be as vain and as twisted as he clearly is...
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Barbara B.
5.0 out of 5 stars Courageous
Reviewed in Brazil on October 1, 2020
An extremely courageous, revealing book, interesting because it is written from the perspective of a family member who grew up witnessing much of what she has written, but also with the knowledge of a professional in the area of psychology who understands the process of character formation. Ms Trump was courageous for revealing how she herself suffered, along with others, in the toxic environment that she describes, knowing that she might be accused of being revengeful by the president and his supporters. She pursued with her endeavor anyway, feeling the country needed to know.
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Cecilia c.
5.0 out of 5 stars Buen libro
Reviewed in Mexico on September 9, 2020
Llego antes de lo esperado e intacto

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