A new book by Donald Trump's niece Mary Trump describes the president as a person likely afflicted by multiple psychological disorders who is profoundly unsuited to be president.
Mary Trump is the daughter of the president's older brother, Fred Trump Jr., an airline pilot who suffered from alcoholism and died of a heart attack at 42. She is a clinical psychologist who holds a Ph.D. from Adelphi University in New York.
A copy of the
book was shared with POLITICO. Here are some of its most revelatory and incendiary allegations:
Trump said he "barely even knew" his daughter-in-law
At a family dinner at the White House in 2017, Donald Trump said he didn't know his daughter-in-law Lara Trump well, even though she had been with the president's son Eric Trump for almost eight years.
"Lara, there. I barely even knew who the fuck she was, honestly, but then she gave a great speech during the campaign in Georgia supporting me," the president said, according to the book.
Trump's niece says he suffers from multiple psychological issues
Besides believing that her uncle fits the nine criteria of clinical narcissism, Mary Trump believes he also may suffer from antisocial personality disorder, dependent personality disorder and a "long undiagnosed learning disability that for decades has interfered with his ability to process information."
She also thinks he may suffer from a caffeine-induced sleep disorder, a result of the several Diet Cokes he reportedly drinks on a daily basis. Asked about the narcissism claim, McEnany said on Tuesday: "It's ridiculous. Absurd allegations that have absolute no bearing in truth."
Trump's personality is the product of his relationship with his mother
The author suggests that Donald Trump's personality is shaped by the weak relationship she says he had as a child with his mother, also named
Mary Trump. Because of that, the president's niece suggests Donald Trump turned as a child to his father, who was not a warm parent.
"Donald suffered deprivations that would scar him for life" and developed personality traits such as "displays of narcissism, bullying [and] grandiosity" as a result, the author writes. Matthews, the White House spokesperson, said in a statement: "The President describes the relationship he had with his father as warm and said his father was very good to him. He said his father was loving and not at all hard on him as a child."
Trump's history of crude remarks about women's physical appearance extends to his family
When writing a sequel to the bestselling "Art of the Deal," Trump recorded himself complaining about women who didn't want to date him.
"It was an aggrieved compendium of women he had expected to date but who, having refused him, were suddenly the worst, ugliest, and fattest slobs he'd ever met," Mary Trump, who helped on her uncle's book, writes in "Too Much and Never Enough."
At another point in their interactions, Trump even made a crass comment about Mary Trump's breasts after seeing her in a bathing suit. "Holy shit, Mary. You're stacked," the president allegedly said. His then-wife, Marla Maples, slapped him lightly on the arm. Mary describes her face reddening after her uncle's comment.
Trump went to the movies instead of the hospital when his older brother died
On the day the president's brother Fred Trump Jr. was dying in the hospital in 1981, Trump and his sister Elizabeth went to the movies, Mary Trump writes in her book. No one from the family accompanied Fred Trump Jr. to the hospital.
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