Mary Trump's book calls president a likely 'sociopath' who cheated his way into college, betrayed his brother
President Donald Trump likely suffers from a range of mental disorders and spent his formative years cheating in school and emotionally abusing his brother, developing a destructive personality that could now bring about an “end to American democracy,” according to Mary Trump, the president’s estranged niece.
Mary Trump, a trained psychologist and the daughter of the president’s late brother, Fred Trump Jr., paints the scathing portrait of her uncle in her forthcoming book, “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,” a copy of which was obtained by the New York Daily News ahead of its July 14 publication.
Citing her doctorate in clinical psychology and years of observing Trump, the 55-year-old doctor writes 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-all-costs attitude was shaped from an early age by his father, according to Mary Trump.
She describes Trump’s dad, 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 the book, which Mary Trump says she based on firsthand observances, an array of documents and interviews with dozens of the president’s relatives, friends and associates.
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 ghostwriter 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, 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 not explicitly blaming 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 family real estate company to pursue his passion of becoming an airplane pilot — a decision Fred Trump Sr., considered a “betrayal,” Mary Trump writes.
Donald and Fred Trump Sr., would team up to belittle her father over his split from the family business, calling him “a bus driver in the sky,” according to Mary Trump.
She recounts one incident when Donald Trump came to visit her father’s home in Marblehead Harbor, Massachusetts.
“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 from a heart attack, his family had sent him to a hospital alone and no one came to visit, according to Mary Trump.
Donald Trump, meanwhile, went to see a movie, she writes.
Mary 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--- 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 also said of her brother, according to the book.
Trump Barry, a former federal judge, could not be reached for comment on Tuesday.
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