Trump as depicted by his niece in her book ....

Mary Trump has frequent, worth viewing, posts on Facebook just now.

What appalling people this side of the Trump’s are, well done and very brave of his niece to speak out so frequently!

Nothing quoted in her book surprises me in the slightest, it’s very insightful and accurate.

It's hard to understand why any sentient being in America could tolerate this dreadful manchild.

Mary Trump has a clear idea of Trump's mental state. He has never grown up to be a responsible adult and to regulate his temper from when he was aged three.
It's obvious he was spoilt and got his own way as a child.
It's very frightening that this man with the mind and capabilities of a three year old is running the USA.

I've just ordered the book.

The title is so true, it's never enough.

He sounds like a sociopathic narcissist.
His inability to care about the suffering of others or to feel emotions fits in well with the nature of serial killers, am not suggesting Trump is one of these but his character is scarily similar. I imagine the only reason he didn’t go down this dark path is because he couldn’t see any financial gain from it.

For Aveline, and that "It's hard to understand why any sentient being in America could tolerate this dreadful manchild.". Well, you can blame supremely gullible voters, and the adoration of money (Chump portrays himself as a successful zillionaire). You could add in a void at the top of the Republican party just over ten years ago, and a lack of really effective campaigning by the Democrats to expose him.

Add to that a distinct lack of effective questioning from the TV stations over there -- a networked interview with someone like Andrew Neil would have had Chump frothing at the mouth.

His niece's descriptions are spot-on, and for those who haven't seen, he's often portrayed or cartooned as an angry toddler.

Oh, and for those who haven't seen it, I'll post this quote again, it's from around 100 years ago, from a satirist & journalist named H L Mencken (Google the name for other barbed witticisms -- he had a major downer on politicians?!) >>>>> “As democracy is perfected, the office of President represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”.

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Trump isn't a Churchgoer.
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But he is a downright moron!

Moron was a word of its time, having an extremely disabled DGD I am aware that it was a respected medical term but now used as an insult and is regarded as offensive - the fact Trump uses it himself is a giveaway as to just how offensive it is - no offence,just wish to point out.

Well, you may well deem him as immature, unpredictable, mentally ill etc, but what about all those people who have voted him into POWER ?
How many of those are actually sane - very few, I would suggest.

Fallingstar

He sounds like a sociopathic narcissist.
His inability to care about the suffering of others or to feel emotions fits in well with the nature of serial killers, am not suggesting Trump is one of these but his character is scarily similar. I imagine the only reason he didn’t go down this dark path is because he couldn’t see any financial gain from it.

But he still has those ‘killer’ instincts! He said “ can’t we shoot the Black Lives Matter protestors in the legs or something” . When boasting about his popularity he said “ I could shoot someone on 5th Avenue ( or similar) and get away with it!”
And now with the War in Iran he started… need I say more!

Luckygirl3

..... Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump

Worth a read I think - it was written in 2020, so is out of date as regards the latest developments. His niece Mary is a clinical psychologist.

But it depicts Trump as being spoiled by his rich father Fred and brought up without emotion nor any sense of responsibility or care.

Some interesting quotes:

“If he is afforded a second term, it would be the end of American democracy.” - very prophetic - we are in this second term now ands watching US democracy shrink before our very eyes.

“Donald today is much as he was at three years old: incapable of growing, learning, or evolving, unable to regulate his emotions, moderate his responses, or take in and synthesize information.”

Donald’s ego has been and is a fragile and inadequate barrier between him and the real world, which, thanks to his father’s money and power, he never had to negotiate by himself."

"His deep-seated insecurities have created in him a black hole of need that constantly requires the light of compliments that disappears as soon as he’s soaked it in. Nothing is ever enough.”

“The simple fact is that Donald is fundamentally incapable of acknowledging the suffering of others."

Referring to the covid pandemic and Trump's response - " .... hundreds of thousands of American lives will have been sacrificed on the altar of Donald’s hubris and willful ignorance".
And during the pandemic: “With millions of lives at stake, he takes accusations about the federal government’s failure to provide ventilators personally, threatening to withhold funding and lifesaving equipment from states whose governors don’t pay sufficient homage to him."

“The fact is, 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. At this point, we can’t evaluate his day-to-day functioning because he is, in the West Wing, essentially institutionalized. Donald has been institutionalized for most of his adult life, so there is no way to know how he would thrive, or even survive, on his own in the real world.”

Trump paid someone else to do his college entrance exam for him as he knew he would not pass.

His niece relates his bankruptcies which, for some inexplicable reason, did not stop him acquiring more support from the banks. It seems that his father acquired huge government grants for building projects that were never even started. And he got away with it.

I found the book a revelation to me about how a certain section of US society thinks and functions in financial figures with an incalculable numbers of 00000s.

And they all go to church on Sunday ......... what a travesty of humanity these people are.

The only thing there I’d take issue with is that in his youth they may have attended Church as a ‘show’ , but Trump doesn’t bother nowadays except for official occasions where he has to!
Golf is his religion!

He worships his balls .........

Luckygirl

I think he was both neglected and spoilt during his rather odd upbringing. Reading about it, his parents sound emotionally detached but little Donny no doubt had everything money could buy and never felt the need to make any effort achieve anything or to please anybody.

He was emotionally neglected I think.
But it seems his father (a dishonest and controlling man) picked him out for advancement and gave him everything he wanted.
It sounds as though he came to see himself as totally entitled.
A wholly dysfunctional family upbringing ... but he seems to appeal to something in the American psyche. Not the best part it seems.

It’s interesting, as he was one of five children, not the oldest or youngest.

I was listening to the 'The rest is politics' podcast last night. The thinking is that Trump will lose his majority in both the senate the house but won't be bothered and will just continue in his own sweet way. I hope the Democrats are locating a really strong candidate to oppose him.

I hope he does lose his majority in both, but I can't see him taking Republican defeat in the mid-terms without some attempt at self-justification, like telling everyone the vote was rigged.

Oh yes. It's always someone else's fault.

He has done that before. With his defeat in 2020. And now the ones who were convicted in that assault, on the 6th of January, are having their convictions overturned.

Barbadosbelle

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Trump isn't a Churchgoer.
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No. Just portrays himself as the pope and The Messiah instead.