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  • How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
  • Written by: Mary L. Trump PhD
  • Narrated by: Mary L. Trump PhD
  • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
  • 4.5 out of 5 stars (1,890 ratings)

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Too Much and Never Enough

Written by: Mary L. Trump PhD
Narrated by: Mary L. Trump PhD
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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, 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 currently occupies 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 family 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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Extraordinary writing by a true scholar of the mind

The writing is clear and coherent, demonstrating the author’s academic achievement while simultaneously accessible to non-specialist readers and listeners. She and her team evidently put a great deal of work into accomplishing this feat in so short a timeframe.

The author reads her work as clearly as she writes it. There was not one moment in the book where I had to back to, slow playback, and replay, not any moment where found myself distracted by the sound. Her voice and pronunciation have the clarity I expect from SLPs and language educators.

This is a tragic case study in the social development of a pathologically criminal mind. Through the example of the author, it is also a case study in the resilience to overcome a generationally traumatizing family and succeed despite being set up to fall.

The story might well be as close as Frankenstein gets to real life, though Shelley could not have imagined the death toll.

There is brilliance in the Trump family after all, and human decency too, and her name is Dr. Mary.

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Unbelievably Brilliant

I was skeptical about listening to this as there's almost nothing that can be said about Trump that shocks...but it's eloquently delivered and insightful.

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I've read 27 books about your uncle.

Your story is not to crap on him it's a true vision of how disgusting family's can be to each other. every chapter broke my heart and filled it with hope. I've lived your life not in your magnitude. This telling has made me understand that the insanity that elected him makes sense. I have never prayed a day in my life. but I will pray today that you get your just deserves from this book and all that has cause you pain suffer greatly.

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Listened to It Twice

If you ever wondered how to create a monster, look no further. Mary your recounting of this family history showed an ethical review of your unethical family.
First I have to say I’m sorry for the loss of your father. His alcoholism was a direct result of having grown up in such a sick family. I truly believe he really tried his best for you your brother and mother but some powers are just too hard to fight against.
Your book showed how your uncle became the monster he is and explains a lot of what the world is witnessing today
I’m sure this was not easy for you to write but I also know it is exceptionally important. Thank you

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Insightful and devastating

Mary Trump is wonderfully articulate and devastating in sharing her experience and observations about her family. It explains SO much! She offers a credible portrait of Donald Trump as a petrified boy inside the body of a septuagenarian who has never been called out on any of his ignorance or cruelty, but to whom we are all at the mercy of. It’s a memoir that I predict will be preserved in the annals of history.

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A Must Read

Ms. Trump's searing portrait of Donald and his family dynamics will stay with you long after you've finished reading. She exposes not only what he is, but also why. In an in depth and unflinching way she shows how Donald and his siblings were both shaped and scarred by a father who was a sociopath. This book also highlights the peril that America has been placed in due to his presidency, but its timely release may yet offer a glimmer of hope.

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Family of Origin story proves dysfunctional

In Psychiatry, the term Family of Origin denotes who you were raised by and how you were raised in your life. You can be a millionaire and still be skull _uckingly dysfunctional. In the AA field, a man (Ernie Larson, brilliant guy) once said:
What you live with, you learn
What you learn, you practise
What you practise, you become and
What you become, has consequences.

Now, add that to Donald J. Trump. He lived in opulence with a cold psychopath, in an extremely dysfunctional family, he learned it. He practised it and became it. And you in the US, are living with those consequences. He is everything his father was, only not as successful. His brother became an alcoholic, practised it and died from it. My father, a lifelong Commercial and retired RCAF pilot (and recovering alcoholic until his death) understood the love of flying, and the terror of having so many lives in your hands. It draws you down. Some handle it, some do not. I'm sorry, Freddy. Wish you had better parents.

You can guarantee, DJTs family of origin story had a HUGE amount to do with his becoming who and what he has become.

I'm Canadian, and old enough to remember DJT younger and just a classless and loud. My mother used the "You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear" to describe him in the 70s. Classless, loud, and imo, a carnival barker. Embarrassing. And somehow, the US elected him.

Mary did a really good job reading this.
She could have really gone down the clinical illness rabbit hole, but she was...kind instead. She was kind about her grandparents, and she was kind about her uncle. But she more than anyone, with a Doctorate in Psychiatry, understands just how dangerous this man is. Excellent book, I listened to it twice.


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Too Close For Comfort

Since he announced his run for POTUS, I have followed disaster of a term from my relatively safe Canadian home. As his antics grew, I continued to be drawn to following his every move. Frozen in disgust, yet also struck with a familiarity in his indifference to the pain of others and some of the specific things said or did would seam to jump out at me. I didn't thoroughly connect his lack of empathy and whataboutism playbook to my abusive mother. That is, until chapter two. Fred Trump was, in many ways a similar caregiver as my mother had been. Some of the lines in that chapter stopped me dead- I had thought and felt the same things towards, and from my own parent.

DJT learned to mirror his father, and by extension (to my brain) my mother.

I will admit now, what I couldn't explain to my husband back in 2017, that I did allow my disdain and distrust of my mother to cloud my judgment of the soon to be 45. Now, after listening to the family stories and the unhealthy drive set in the five siblings by a sociopath, much like one I myself had the pleasure of being born to, I can see that while it may have been unjustified, base on public knowledge back then, it was justified by my unique point of view.

Mary's narration was beautiful, her story unnerving, but has added a much needed clarity to the turmoil that is bubbling to the south.

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Well done

Insightful and interesting read. Very informative and very honest - audio version is well done indeed.

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Didn't meet hype

While Mary provides a decent theory / background story of why Donald is the way he is, her bitterly subjective tone reveals a deep seeded personal injury sustained by feeling rejected by her family, and therefore lost some credibility with me by coming off as a means to seek revenge rather than inform the public of Donald's true character.

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