Trump's niece describes a toxic family dynamic where kindness was weakness | Fresh Air
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- Mary Trump was devastated when her uncle was elected president. Her book, 'Too Much and Never Enough,' describes Donald Trump as a "belligerent" youth who hasn't changed since he was a teen. Mary's late father Freddy was the black sheep of the family.
This episode was first published on July 23, 2020.
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I never understood how the son of a near billionaire could be considered "a self-made man." I hear that term used a lot towards the offspring of privilege, and it is very rarely remotely accurate.
Watch more documentaries. Trumps dad and granddad were sucessful but Trump took it a new level.
@NFTeve No... no he didn't. Trump inherited $400 Million and control over daddy's empire. He lost his personal wealth all relatively soon. Fred Trump's various business holdings were already worth over a billion dollars. He spewed the name everywhere, but destroyed the business. Spent the last 35 years borrowing from one source to pay off the previous. Most documentaries are spun or authorized by him. Donnie had over 4000 lawsuits from former business partners, banks, government agencies, unions, workers, and women he assaulted before his run for presidency. Many took years, some decades, before settlement. The Trump Corporation was not able to keep up with Donnie's wastefulness, so the sham businesses and charities began, all of which were used for embezzlement. When the IMF finally gave him a high-risk ranking, Donnie got money from China. When China finally cut him off, Putin picked up his markers. Now, the Trump Corporation is going to be destroyed, it is already massively in debt. Even Putin and the Saudis can't bail him out.
@@NFTeve
Don't you mean a new "low"??? 🤔
@@NFTeve Yep. Gutter level.
@@NFTevemaybe but could he have done it without that huge infusion of cash and doing dubious things?
Her father would be proud of her courage.
Obviously money doesn't buy class. Petty rich people putting thuggery before kindness. Sorry, Mary. No child should be treated like an outsider by their own family.
Thank you Birdie. Warm words doing us, the rejected, justice 🧣.
And yet so many children are. I am a retired elementary school teacher who witnessed this every year. I DID document, write down, and/or reported the issues I saw. But...
I also have been treated an outsider by my family.
@@cherylween4973 Count me in. Disowned in the very end ... the pain and how to process all that is difficult to describe.
Sad that pathetic Mary Trump is totally toxic and evil and jealous... maybe a psychologist can cure her someday...
I believe that Mary’s grandfather “never recovered” from her father achieving his goals was simply because her father chose a path that her grandfather couldn’t manipulate against her father.
Classic narcissism, there.
There is no simplistic analysis of this family dynamic. In depth and carefully researched investigation is required
CLASSIC RACISM...THE TRUMPS!!!
Donald Trump has NEVER committed a kind or selfless act in his entire miserable life.
My heart goes out to Mary's late father. Nobody can truly know what it is like to live with constant criticism as a child. It has a lifelong impact.
Maybe he father just wanted to toughen him up and get him ready for a harsh brutal world. It was a personality clash. You get a child who is totally different from you and that's hard to deal with. For gosh sakes he identified more with Donald it's human nature. Fred Trump senior was a hard driven ambitious Manhattan businessman. A type a personality. It does not mean he was bad it was just his way so naturally he is going to like the son whohehas something in common with more. Mary hated him but she still tried to get his money which he was able to get because if his personality
@@Astrid-jt8cd No father should want to "toughen up" his son. Nothing more than toxic masculinity from someone who didn't actually understand what it means to parent a child. Fred Trump was a criminal. So is his son Donald. That you identify with them more than abused people says a lot about you. My guess -- you don't have many friends and if you have kids, they freaking loathe you.
I couldn't have said it better myself. I think you nailed this one.
Don’t paint Fred as a saint, he was anything but.
@@annek1226 Acknowledging that growing up under constant criticism is difficult is not by any means painting someone as a saint.
Once you read her book you understand why Trump is the way he is and why he will never change. Given what we now know about his misuse of secret papers, you need to fear for the safety of your family and your democracy - and why that is not an exaggeration.
He needs to go to 12 step program or to Catholic church training so he can learn to say "He's sorry"
If Trump had not learned how to be a decent human being by age 60, there was no chance he would ever have learned it.
@@jgrysiak6566
No. He needs to spend the rest of his miserable life in prison, solitary confinement
@@The2FO , & repent! There is no hope for a mental person! I know a lot of mental people like him that never apologize for anything! They think they're always right!
I've felt that way every day of Joe Biden's presidency. Hopefull,y he'll be sent to the ash bin of history in November 5, 2024 and prison soon after.
Fred Trump had Alzheimers. I believe wholeheartedly, Donald had everything to do with writing his niece and nephew out of Fred's will. Fred didn't know what was going on around him in the end.
Well, it would be consistent with Donald, wouldn't it? Money over all else.
And after 😮Donald tried to take his siblings out of the Will, he was discovered and stopped! However in this toxic family, even though his siblings knew what he had done, no one ever said a word about it to Donald or Fred
Benedict Donald illegally transferred $496 million from his father's account into his. His lavish lifestyle was based on stealing nearly half a billion $ from his Alzheimer's father.
How can you say that without being sure
@@Astrid-jt8cd The niece, daughter of his own brother was taken out of the will by Donald that is a fact.
And he never learned to say he is sorry, messed up or never to apologize for anything!
That is Donald's Narcissism. No accountability. Otherwise Narc collapse. Something they desperately avoid
I have wanted to thank Dr. Mary Trump so much. Because of her book, I finally realized I came from a narcissistic family, & am now able to find ways to heal..🧡
Yes I think becoming a pilot is pretty darned terrific
Every work is something to be proud of. You can look at. It many ways. You can say a garbage collector takes great physical strength and stamina.
As am I. Thank you Mary
Maybe you are not an angel either
Doctor?? LOL.
He’s always been a grifter and a liar. Always 😊
I'm from an incredibly toxic German family, my mom is a massive narcissist and throughout my childhood she'd use any weakness she could find, any mistake I made to humiliate and punish me in sadistic and mentally as well as physically destructive ways. She hates the German word for nice or kind and mocks everyone who even dares to use it. My grandparents were similar but notably they were massively successful, I think low empathy and little regard for other people is a mindset that helps with amassing wealth.
Naturally
Some families, it's good to be from. Far from.🙁
You have my sympathy 😢 I had a narcissistic sibling, and that was bad enough.
@@Elfdustifysame here Respect
Right I'm sympathetic but let it go and move on.. life us short. That's the way they were. What can you do.
It is easy to be a despicable person throwing all your will toward destruction of other people. It takes an incredible amount of insight and empathy to do good to others and promote their wellbeing.
❤
What a toxic family dynamic.
Ivanka turned out amazing!
@@aliciasciascia9227ivanka is the broken golden child
A lot of rich and poor families are the same.
RACIST DYNAMIC!!!!!!!!!!!TOXIC TO OTHERS!!!!!!!!!
Thank you. I always liked listening to Terry Gross, and this piece is both good and timely. Good for Mary Trump for speaking up.
Glad Mary has found her voice and power and has become as unrelenting as her uncle.
What a cruel family.
What does that have to do with Donald's ability to lead
@@Astrid-jt8cdcruel man babies shouldn't have the reigns of power. Especially those that are friends of Nazis.
I agree 👍 💯
I think trumps niece is the real nasty one of that family
I was young in the seventies and could not stand those pit smoking long haired lunatic hippies.
Kindness takes courage, period. Courage to do what is right by caring for others, even when it goes against what most people would do. And courage to set aside our our own feelings in a moment to show empathy to another. And we all know that bullies are deeply cowardly at heart, just like Trump Sr, and Donald.
@@DJK-cq2uy I’m going to assume you meant this at face value and aren’t trolling. But you never know. 😂🤣😂💕
U said that so better than I did. The thing about being kind makes u feel good since SELF LOVE is priceless!💜🙏💜
@@spicyirwin5835 So true my friend. Although, I often find it easier to care for others than my own self. 😳🥹
Thank you Mary Trump, for letting us know how and why things were/are. Your father didn't deserve the treatment he got from his father and allowed/enabled by his mother.
And by the dad.
It's "prison mentality" - kindness among prisoners is seen as weakness, and so, vulnerability that is ripe for exploitation.
So sad about how they treated her father.
what IS IT with affluent people being such heartless, soulless monsters?! it's a miracle that Mary survived all of this madness, never mind that her father was the exception to the family's history of bloodthirsty business operations and misanthropic tendencies (hence the black sheep term, but we need a lot of kindness in this world now more than ever before).
That's how they got rich to begin with
That's how they become affluent
Perhaps his drinking was a reaction to his father.
Of course it was.
Thank God she wrote this book.
Mary is a breath of fresh air. She is honest to a fault. What is sad is that the republicans did not heed her warnings.
Oh please.
Reptipublicans.
@@Astrid-jt8cd Oh, hi, Don Junior.
Thank you that's a compliment
@@Astrid-jt8cdewwww
Excellent interview, well worth hearing again. Thank you, Mary Trump, for your insights, thoughts, and letting us in to parts of your life. You are an inspiration and I can actually say your name without feeling sick (the way I do with the rest of them).
Terrible that pathetic Mary Trump is totally toxic and evil and jealous because of her failed alcoholic father... maybe a psychologist can cure her someday...
I know, it’s weird.
Very important to re-air this interview, now, in 2023. Thank you. Dr. Mary L. Trump now has a weekly podcast and UA-cam show ( hosted by Politicon ) in which she and a panel of extremely bright people discuss pressing issues of the day. This conversation with Terry Gross was her initial "coming out" to the public. She will NEVER go back into the dark corners of the Trump crime family again. Dr. Mary L. Trump has a conscience, a brain and a heart, like her father. That's what sets her apart from the rest of the grifting Trump clan.
Thanks Mary for all your work to inform us about Donald Trump.
Hope you have a wonderful future.
So glad you think truth matters.
I will not automatically believe what she says. Just because she has a degree in
Psychology. The Trump fily did wonderful things to enhance the development of manhattan
Interesting.. your statement creates the appearance that you likely know very little about the psychology/skewed perceptions of an adult child of an alcoholic - her degree doesn't, nor does it appear to have, changed the anger, victim mentality or what appears to be her skewed perceptions.
@@denisebotko7456 If you want to hear tRump victimology listen to Donald. Love and respect Mary Trump.❤
Hello Mary! Great that this Podcast was re-aired for all those who missed it or those who needs to be reminded of who DT really is under his sheep clothing! 💜
As a mother I just can't fathom being ashamed of my child for becoming a pilot - I'd be so proud I'd burst at the seams. Mary Trump is a intelligent and kind woman. I'd vote for Mary if she ever ran for president. ❤
Too bad pathetic Mary Trump is totally toxic and evil and jealous because of her failed alcoholic father... maybe a psychologist can cure her someday...
He didn't go to the military. I guess he felt embarrassed. Poor Fred Jr wasn't evil like the other siblings.💯💯 Mary you were blessed by your father. Thank you for telling the truth about your crazy uncle.💯💯
@@renitaperry5808 - Mary Trump is nuts... get used to it... Good Donald Trump is vastly better than evil Hitlerite/Communist/criminal Jokementia Bribery... and Hunter Bribery...
Where did she get these white supremacists ideas. She's white. Also what makes you think she could be president. Also talking behind someone's back is not so kind
@@Astrid-jt8cd - Yes, Mary is a leftist nutcase so you won't make any sense out of her comments...
I love Fresh Air, I listen to it at least a couple times a week. Terry Gross is a fantastic interviewer and I've read both Mary Trump's books. So glad I found this on YT!
I don't care for her as an interviewer. Too clinical. But she does have good guests and does cover interesting things about them.
Mary you mean alot to alot of people.
I read Mary's book on her father and the trump's. Its an interesting read. I empathise with Fred jr as I know what it is to be an eldest son deliberately undermined from a young age by an aggressive, game playing father. No fun. It seemed Fred jr was the only one with the imagination/guts to start a career separate from the 'easy' money on offer from Fred sr. It's also a shame that some immediately go to 'alcoholic' when talking about Fred jr. Imo he self medicated, who doesn't?
word
Reminiscent of the relationship between Henry Ford I and Edsel Ford. Abusive. Disrespectful. Controlling.
It's a bit why Don Jr kind of went off the rails. Apparently, he used to be very different, and now he appears to be a cokehead now or on some sort of speed. Allegedly, Trump is much harsher on him the same way Fred was on Fred Jr. Notice Trump never says much anything nice about Don Jr, if anything at all.
Mary Trump doesn’t.
@@chrisclermont456And virulently anti-Semitic!
My conservative parents were exactly the same, right down to ridiculing little girls for crying about a dead pet - the only thing they respect is force and stength and winning - toxic as#holes.
Unfortunately, the Lefties are just as bad as the Righties... In a different way.
Complete devotion/blindly following to ANYTHING isn't healthy.
Most likely they were abused themselves.
If we curb child abuse, we will curb fascism.
I had the opposite kind of family but the one sibling who used to tend to bully, now far later in life is, lo and behold, a Trumper
I'm surprised that he even acknowledges that she is his niece. Wouldn't put it past him to lie about that.
Dear Dr. Mary Lea Trump, thank you so much for all your work helping to preserve democracy. 🪷
I am writing from Munich/ Germany. Many German and European people admire your courage and achievements. Alles Gute für Sie und Ihre Lieben 🪴🪷🪴
Why are you so quick to believe her. This might be a personal vendetta she hasGainst her uncle and she is using our country to w
Exploit it.
She puts down her grandfather and yet she sued in court to get his money. Maybe her father just didn't have the killer instinct tomake it in the cutthroat Manhattan real estate market and Fred Trump being the driven
It's called being human. Alsoi would like to ask her if America is still a racist country how come they elected barrack Obama and started the voting rights act affirmativw action evt evt
@@Astrid-jt8cd Hello Astrid, I have studied in the USA. My daughter has graduated from Harvard University in Boston. Our family has friends in different parts of the USA. We are in regular contact with them. They visit us in Germany and Europe since 40 years.
I have read all the books of Dr. Mary Lea
Trump. I am very interested in U S politics and watch US news channels regularly since 15 years. I am a critical thinker. My information is rooted in a lot of sources of the last decades, not only in these few minutes of the clip above. Be well🇺🇸.
She did a great thing exposing this noxious wart on humanity's bum.
I believe every word Mary says.
Why?
Because it comes from a place of specificity, truth and honesty and nobody has even tried to demonstrate otherwise.
Why do you believe her automatically.besides I want a tough president not one who holds hands and sings kymbayah all day kong
@@Astrid-jt8cd I see that you're big on "toughness." Perfect authoritarian personality to be a moronic MAGA supporter. I am sorry that your parents didn't love you.
@@Astrid-jt8cd then move to Hungary or Russia or China
How very tragic to hear that your grandfather, basically caused your father's death! I'm so sorry you lost your dad at such a young age!
*Big hugs!*
Ya, I am sure her grandfather slammed alcohol in his face…. what a cop
Out
The interviewer just doesn't get how important it can be for a son to have the unconditional love and respect of his father. 'She doesn't have the compassion and empathy to understand what Mary's sharing with her.
Terry Gross has always been awful. Her matter of fact recounting of Mary's father's drinking was completely unnecessary.
It's always tough to learn horrid things about your family... I can't even imagine what that was like. 😕
Mary, your entire nuclear family growing up were the normal ones. The rest of them lack some kind of decency gene. You are better off without them. You have come through sort of unscathed, retaining yourself. I have nothing but respect for you.
Those family dynamics create very sick people who, ultimately, hurt others.
It is proven wealth & privilege almost never shapes the character of a person for the better.
Remember that a narcissist cannot empathize, unless it benefits them they want the credit for empathizing but really they’re getting something else out of it. They often ask people why do they care about other people because they just can’t relate. 0:09
This is such a great interview with Mary Trump. I’m so glad I stumbled upon it.
Yes Mary warned us if Trump became president we would regret it, well it’s happening, she could not be more right.
Are you blind? Trump did a great deal of good for this country, but Biden is destroying it! maybe you aren't aware of what's been going on. Pay attention to the actual real facts.
Under Trump we had a good economy, no war mongering and hope. Anyone that can't see that the Democrats are persecuting him for the same things they're doing is beyond belief.
An airplane pilot has to be able to handle stress. The interviewer doesn't get it.
One person’s stress is another’s high adventure. Piloting planes versus dealing with narcissistic relatives? Which would you choose?
Your disrespect and lack of empathy to Mary is incomprehensible. Her father would have been the pride and joy of any family that didn't worship money and power above all, and his remarcable accomplishments would have been greatly celebrated.
Her father would have been very proud of Mary.
I meant the pope
I hope there is a movie made about this family that Trump can watch after he sentenced to life in prison for all of his crimes he committed as president.
It's heartbreaking how Mary and her father suffered from that monster family. Lack of empathy and anti-social behaviour seems to be in their genes.
Maybe it wasn't the best family but don't you think calling the monsters goes a bit far.
How can you be so judgemental and cruel. None of us is perfect
@@Astrid-jt8cdwell maybe you have different standards and find this quite ok. Most of us find this horrible. And it's a bit ironic calling me cruel while you defend a cruel family.
What does this have to do with Donald's ability to run a country. You are going to blame him for the goings in in his family. Also why do you automatically believe Mary when she uses the f word Constantly. The way the left us treating Donald us cruel.
The last time I checked having a dysfunctional family is not against the law or barring you get running for president
Kennedy's father was a bootlegger and made his fortune by insider trading on the stock ma ket
Thank you Mary for sharing this, I’m sure it wasn’t easy. This helps to understand Donald’s pathology.
we don't need to 'understand' the grifting- lying 'priviledged'
trumptydumpty
Very informative. Shocking how greedy and cruel humans can be to own family. 😮
One of the worst situations in the whole world, in all of time, has to be living at the time Donald Trump is alive. A worse thing would be to know him and the worst would be to be related to him-and have to deal with him. You have my sympathy, truly, for the horror he caused in your life and in your Dad's life. I am terrified by the inconceivable yet possible idea that this person would ever become elected again. God save us from the demons he has unleashed-from himself and from others who follow.
What kind of nonsense talk is this. He was a great president. For gosh sakes grow up and stop beîng so sensitive.
@@Astrid-jt8cd
You're sick. Either you've been living under a rock or you are so brainwashed & blind to FACTS. Or both.
@@Astrid-jt8cd Bot, botty bot , head full of cement, you undermine democracy, and think you're doing good
@@Astrid-jt8cdTrump mismanaged a pandemic resulting in the deaths of hundreds of thousands people in the US. His misunderstanding of tariffs resulted in domestic manufacturers like Harley-Davidson exporting production and costing consumers. His mendacious and idiotic foreign policies delighted our enemies while alienating our allies. Most of his cabinet appointees consider him unfit for office . He refused to participate in a peaceful transfer of power, unprecedented since Washington’s administration. You are the one spouting nonsense when you suggest that the odious Trump was in any way a “great” President. GTFOH
@@Astrid-jt8cdYOU ARE SICK!! STOP drinking the Kool Aid
I had some of this type of treatment in my family and when I turned 18 I moved out and we didn’t speak with or see one another for 2 years. I never felt like what I did was ever good enough while living in my parents home. I moved out and found my way and I did quite well for myself.
Wonderful and insightful interview, thank you. Love Mary Trump.🌷✨🌵💙
Dearest Mary Trump. I have her first book 📖 I lurn a lot reading it. She is very articulate lady plus I saw her 👀 show in California on UA-cam Internet with anchor from other shows similarities to Mary’s program on Psychology
Very humble lady Mary 😇Trump. Wishing her success and Hsppiness forever. I really like her very much ❤God Bless YOU dear Mary. From Sherbrooke Québec 🇲🇶🙏🥰Canada 🍁🇨🇦🇺🇸😇🎼👏
??? Mary is full of hate and jealousy...
@@BuzzLOLOL I doubt she's jealous. She definitely has hard feelings, but wouldn't you if you found out that your late father died alone? And that was just the way his life ended. From her perspective, and what she's learned, he wasn't treated very well before that.
@@zxy78267 - That's what I said... Mary's jealous that her branch of the family isn't as successful... and WHY did her father die alone? WHERE was Mary?
Ha ha ha Mary I guess you are not going to vote for him
I agree it was not nice the her grandfather treated her father like.
Mary is an american hero
I listened to Mary years ago. She knows what ex pres really was like. He is a threat to our country and is too irresponsible to be an acting president. If others knew how truly conniving he really is, they would never have voted for him.
Every polititian is conniving
It's the nature of politics
Trump as president did not work at all. He did what Fox Hosts told him and twittered. Prove: the time it took to make all those tweeds he did, would take the whole day to do. In the morning hours the Oval Office was empty. In the later hours it was empty, Trump watched TV, Fox News. Mitch McConnell did the work as president.
They know exactly what he is... a racist .Thats exactly why they voted for him!!!!!!!
Fred had given her dad his name, and then discovered the younger one possessed the dastardliness to lie, cheat, steal, stab people in the back, and worse, so Donald cooked it up to cheat Mary; the same way he has cheated nearly everyone who got tangled up with him.
As background, THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE.
Close family members have never revealed this kind of dirt on presidents while running.
Ignore her warning at your own peril
It's kind of like Paul Gosar's family warning the country that he was not Senate material. But she's the solitary voice against him from her family. His three older offspring, and their significant others, blowing his horn just reinforce Mary's concerns.
🗽🇺🇸 I admire and respect Mary! 🗣️ She's so patriotic to give us this info! I know that she can't enjoy discussion on her family, but it's so very important for these stories to be told for our democracy is at threat & needs protection. 👏Thank you🙏
As to the myth of Donald being a self-made man, the truth is no one is a self-made man.
You couldn't be more wrong.
@@johnhatchel9681 In what way?
@sdgakatbk There are self made men.
@@johnhatchel9681 I presume they were born in the midst of the wilderness and raised themselves from day one without any help from others. They never relied on anything that it done before nor benefited in any way from the accomplishments of those who had gone before nor the society around them.
Cool.
@@jaex9617 This gets to the crux of things. Because people always have something to work with and in that way, a person always has something that was given to them or they get something from someone or something else. For this reason, I don't believe that anyone is a self-made man.
This is not the same as someone who works hard and overcomes a lot or starts with very little to succeed. People like that are usually examples of perseverance, which is very commendable. But they still had something to work with.
And so many have a blind eye to his antics 🤔
This truly lets us know how so uninformed we are about our candidates. We’re focused on what they will do for us & not so much their character & background. And to think. One can be a criminal before they get into office. Unthinkable!!!
a lot of children are brought up lovelessly, especially in rich families and they learn that expressing sexuality is wrong and should be suppressed and showing love for others is weakness.
I think that Mary Trump is the jewel in the family, and Donald is the lump of coal.. I actually think that he's a different type of 4 letter word ,but I am trying to be polite. 🤣🥰
I'll be polite and tell you I think you are a Democrat.
Wrong... Donald turned out wonderful, Mary is still damaged goods...
@@dorarobertson3608 pretty healthy being a democrat, in this current climate.
I give Mary gratitude into insights I feel unable to articulate since Donald's first interview I recall on late night television, and felt a stomach clutching nausea listening to the bleating emanating from what looked like - the girls who perse their lips for photos - his too puffed up mouth.
He's the freak show you can't turn away from but would like to take down to the level it fears and knows deep down it is, below the fairytale hades. This is my inability to articulate the disgust projected into the ether at every video I see of her uncle. Listening to her videos helps.
Fred to great satisfaction destroying Mary's dad. He had surpassed Fred in ability, Fred couldn't stand that. May Fred suffer in eternity, along with donnie
Mary's book is really eye opening. The narcissism of Donald & his father is painfully exposed and so sad for Fred. Just tragic
I really relate to Mary as an adult child of an alcoholic , (ACOA) She is a hero in my eyes
He did lose his mother to her bedridden sickness at two year's old, and in classic narcissistic personality disorder children are often damaged by trauma before age six. Often hard perfectionist parents.
No excuse, there's always a way to turn your life around. Donald is a discussting, hateful guy
Kindness is weakness? That's the Dark Triad, folks.
Just imagine a whole race of people like the Drumpfs. 😉
The MAGA cultists are that race
She never calls him "Uncle Donald"
Would you?
Mary, thank you for your frankness and honest handling of your father’s trouble with addiction. Your grandfather was influential in your Dad’s sense of selfworth. I admire your personal and professional voice that gives a context to Donald’s family interaction. You also give witness to the cloud that a high financial status can cast on inter generational relationships. You are an example of how much homework you have obviously done to understand all the dynamics and effects. You have a voice to help us understand Donald and his lack of dealing with himself. Thank you.
As a bus driver, I am deeply offended.
When you find out its all dirty money, it doesn't sting as much.
I’m 5:35 min in and am shutting this off. I would have walked out of your interview when you commented that he was an alcoholic and was going to be fired. She is much classier lady than I would have been.
Well if you’re an alcoholic you shouldn’t be flying 5 miles in the air with 150-250 innocent people in your care! What’s wrong with you?
The whole family was psychotic.
Soulless freaks
it sounds like Freddy tried not to fit in with that and paid with his health and life.
Uou mean IS PSYCHOTIC!
Mary and her father were psychos... unfortunately, Mary still is...
@@BuzzLOLOL -Mary is the sane one of the whole dam family.
Not surprising considering all that he has said and done. What I don't understand is how so many people have come to believe his falsehoods. Sad and troubling. I guess I don't understand people as well as I thought.
Look at how the father holds his hands. Like father like son.
"There are killers, and there are losers." Fred Trump Sr.
Fred Trump Sr and Donald are both
Love Mary 🙋♀️❤️💙🌈
I love ❤ Mary Trump. I had an alcoholic father who threatened my mother with a gun. They fought all the time when I was little; then he died when I was six years old. I grew up with no self esteem. It took me decades to heal from my early childhood enough to love myself. I married a good man who became an alcoholic. We were married for 40 years. He passed away on Good Friday 2023. Alcohol killed him.
As a child with a narcissistic father this family dynamic sound very familiar.
rather a cold blooded interview - did not care for Gross's tone - Mary Trump is unfailingly polite - she is a gem to
the country-
I agree in statement regarding interviewer's tone, tendency to disrespectful
Can I ask the interviewer not to make excuses for a father that clearly possessed poor parenting skills. Having been put in the same situation by a careless parent, I disagree with your statement.
Thank you Mary!
his father gave him everything in his hand and then taught him how to be a grifter.
Hi Mare, you are a tough cookie to tell it all and be so honest. We all have spooks in our family closets but I must say, The Don is a oner !!!
Wow! Thank You. He's disgusting & certainly none of this is unfortunately not surprising. He appears to be highly narcisstic, and yes, misogynistic.
Our family was dysfunctional but we learned to rise above abuse, otherwise it perpetuates throughout generations Trump was never able to do that because he was the Bully/Abuser.😡😡
Abuse ended in my family when I went into a program and then took my children with me to meetings. I was a abusive parent in some ways, but my children stopped it, the program stopped it. Am extremely proud of my kids for stopping it.
My father was a Fred Trump Sr bully. Credit to my four brothers who broke the generational abuse cycle and have been loving fathers to their children, in all ways.
January 20, 2024. I've got great respect for Mary.... & want to say THANK YOU for doing this interview ❤🎉
Each time M. Trump's book title is mentioned, they leave off the subtitle which I think is the best part of the entire title: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man.
The book is fantastic!
Mary Trump has class & grace in spades ♠️, in stark contrast to her "Host" 😮.
I just can hardly listen to this host any longer while she insults Mary about her lack of experience in writing, not amending her crass comment after learning that Mary not only had studied Literature for "years" and earned a Masters degree , which I wonder if this host even holds. It's just a nosy and poorly done interview period.
I read her books "too much" reading the Reckoning now.. great take on History.. I recommend both books..
Mary Trump is my Hero!!
A pilot is an honorable position
I loved Mary’s book I highly recommend it. Thank you for this interview 😊
Having read Mary's book, what struck me just being somewhat a little less than middle class all my life..is..there is no simple joy in that family..made me think.. I've had simple joy all my life..but not the Trump's..money does not indeed buy happiness.
Money buys freedom to do what you wish to do in life rather than be a pawn serving others needs. Whether you utilize that freedom to find happiness or not is another matter.