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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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.
