“The plot point that you keep coming back to in every anecdote about him, both with the family and in dealing with the public and in business, is just about how easily he lies,” Maddow says, referring to the new tell-all book written by the president’s niece. #ctl #p2 #maddow pic.twitter.com/pEfHfai0Ke
— PoliticusUSA (@politicususa) July 8, 2020
Some excerpts courtesy of NYT:
His “Big Brain”:
As a high school student in Queens, Ms. Trump writes, Donald Trump paid someone to take a precollegiate test, the SAT, on his behalf. The high score the proxy earned for him, Ms. Trump adds, helped the young Mr. Trump to later gain admittance when he transferred as an undergraduate to the University of Pennsylvania’s prestigious Wharton business school.
Mr. Trump has often boasted about attending Wharton, which he has referred to as “the best school in the world” and “super genius stuff.”
His lack of principles:
Even at the start of Mr. Trump’s campaign, his sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, a retired federal appeals court judge, had deep reservations about his fitness for office, Ms. Trump writes.
“He’s a clown — this will never happen,” she quotes her aunt as saying during one of their regular lunches in 2015, just after Mr. Trump announced that he was running for president.
Maryanne Trump was particularly baffled by support for her brother among evangelical Christians, according to the book.
“The only time Donald went to church was when the cameras were there,” Ms. Trump quotes her aunt as saying. “It’s mind boggling. But that’s all about his base. He has no principles. None!”
His mental illness:
Ms. Trump, a clinical psychologist, asserts that her uncle has all nine clinical criteria for being a narcissist. And yet, she notes, even that label does not capture the full array of the president’s psychological troubles.
“The fact is,” she writes, “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 neurophysical tests that he’ll never sit for.”
At another point she says: “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.”
Like other critics of the president, Ms. Trump takes issue in the book with the notion that Mr. Trump is a strategic thinker who operates according to specific agendas or organizing principles.
“He doesn’t,” she writes. “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.”
WaPo has this to add:
Donald escaped his father’s contempt, Mary Trump writes, because “his personality served his father’s purpose. That’s what sociopaths do: they co-opt others and use them toward their own ends — ruthlessly and efficiently, with no tolerance for dissent or resistance.”
The president, Mary Trump says, is a product of his domineering father and was acutely aware of avoiding the scorn that Fred Sr. heaped on the older brother, called Freddy. “By limiting Donald’s access to his own feelings and rendering many of them unacceptable, Fred perverted his son’s perception of the world and damaged his ability to live in it.”
And this:
Mary Trump writes that her grandfather’s children routinely lied to him, but for different reasons. For her father, “lying was defensive — not simply a way to circumvent his father’s disapproval or to avoid punishment, as it was for the others, but a way to survive.”
For her uncle Donald, however, “lying was primarily a mode of self-aggrandizement meant to convince other people he was better than he actually was,” Mary Trump writes.
ABC News reveals how Trump even objectified his own niece:
In one particularly disturbing scene from a trip to Mar-a-Lago, Mary recounts how when she was 29 and wearing a bathing suit and a pair of shorts to lunch at the resort, her uncle looked up at her and remarked, “Holy shit, Mary. You’re stacked.”
“Donald!” Marla Maples said to her then-husband, slapping him on the arm.
“I was twenty-nine and not easily embarrassed, but my face reddened, and I suddenly felt self-conscious,” Mary recounts. “I pulled my towel around my shoulders. It occurred to me that nobody in my family, outside of my parents and brother, had ever seen me in a bathing suit.”
There are also stores on various news sites about how Trump abused and cheated his own family members, how he repeatedly failed at his various businesses, and how he managed to lie his way right into the White House.
The interesting thing is that the book does not really reveal anything that we did not know, or suspect, about Donald Trump. However, it does manage to provide some context for just why Trump is such a horribly damaged human being.
4/26/17Rolling $toned>Studio 54>$NoRT & Rorer 714 T&A
1. Donald and Ivana Trump attended the opening – while a Quaalude-fueled orgy occurred outside in the street.
According to Haskell, the non-drinking, non-dancing mogul had business reasons for making the scene. “He understood it was an opportunity to be grabbed. He was not there for the drug-fueled disco deliria. He was there to be seen with the famous people, to network, to cut the deal; whilst everyone else cut the coke.”
The flow of revelers grew from a trickle to a torrent after 11 o’clock, and soon thousands swarmed the building. Traffic on 54th Street was brought to a standstill as both celebrities and humble ravers struggled to approach. Frank Sinatra was stranded in his limousine, unable to get near. Cher, Margaux Hemingway and a young Brooke Shields made it inside, but Warren Beatty, Kate Jackson and Henry Winkler did not.
With nowhere else to go, the party spilled onto the street. One clubgoer waited outside with a group of friends, including a doctor packing a jumbo bottle of Quaaludes. “The doctor started handing them out,” he told Haden-Guest. “About 30 people standing around us took them, and then everybody started having this mad sexual orgy. All the men had their dicks out … the women were showing their tits … everybody was feeling everybody else … the crowd was moving in waves … all of a sudden you would find yourself next to someone you didn’t know.”
Meanwhile, the future president was up to less scandalous shenanigans inside. “No one remembered him being there the first night. He was a non-entity. He was never on the dance floor,”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4678910/Trump-boring-infamously-wild-Studio-54-parties.html
Fleischman said: ‘There were drugs all over the place — that’s what fueled it. I partied with the people who loved cocaine.’
He added that Trump was a regular at the club but ‘he never touched drink or drugs. He liked looking at beautiful women, even though he was married to Ivana.
‘Trump wasn’t a lot of fun — when you’re in a crowd drinking and drugging and one person isn’t, that person seems boring.’
Even Trump has admitted he has spent time at the wild club.
Trump said: ‘I would watch supermodels getting screwed, well-known supermodels getting screwed, on a bench in the middle of the room.
‘There were seven of them and each one was getting screwed by a different guy.’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqE4hKIP4n0
1994>An old clip of Donald Trump and Marla Maples appearing on “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous” in 1994 talking about what his one-year-old daughter Tiffany’s legs has caused outrage. Robin Leach, who did the interview said it comes down to people “getting their knickers in a knot.” “It was just a totally casual remark of one guy telling another guy what he liked about his baby,” Leach said.
“I defend his remark completely.”
“He added that Trump was a regular at the club but ‘he never touched drink or drugs.”
Cadet Bone Spurs never wanted to appear like an addict/alcoholic (brother Fred, Jr).
He avoided public drug displays. He always had doctors to manipulate
https://politicaldig.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/trump-doctor.jpg
and ways to hide his stash
https://www.snopes.com/tachyon/2019/11/trump-sudafed.png?resize=1200,630&quality=65
Trump said: ‘I would watch supermodels getting screwed, well-known supermodels getting screwed, on a bench in the middle of the room. ‘There were seven of them and each one was getting screwed by a different guy.’
Cadet Bone Spurs appears as a ladies man for his press and public image.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/media.mediapost.com/dam/cropped/2020/07/07/fox-news-screen-w-cropped-pix-no-trump-7720_ddku4x6.jpg
Like Jeffrey Epstein, Trump was attracted to women that swing both ways and who serve at all cost their money masters.
https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/08/melania_-_copie_6.jpg?quality=80&strip=all
Rumored Sex Tapes? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RrWKRuHvy-Q
Don’t think these revelations will do anything to test the loyalty of his cult members, though.
They will, of course, dismiss them as being lies; made up by her in retaliation on behalf of her father’s memory and the manner in which he died.
FB>”There’s the cruelty…
And the divisiveness…
And the corruption…
And the racism…
And the lies…
And the countless other affronts to decency and integrity.
And then there’s also the sheer jaw-dropping and tragic incompetence.”<Dan the Man Rather
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killian_documents_controversy
what a waste. he could have done so much. i actually(right now) feel sorry for him. so empty. my cat died yesterday. if trumpt’s cat had died he would have made her into a pillow.
My condolences on your loss.
First Family. USA’s First Parents, First Mother, First Father.
Informative Summit https://twitter.com/FLOTUS/status/1280681775535185921
“Children’s mental health and social development must be as much of a priority as physical health.”
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1280867987373899776
“As we continue to come together as Americans to tackle these challenges, I’m honored that you could all be here today to offer your thoughts. I look forward to working with you to make sure that America’s children and families can be healthy and thriving.”
https://quotefancy.com/media/wallpaper/3840×2160/2982038-William-Langland-Quote-Like-father-like-son-every-good-tree-maketh.jpg
“WE HAVE TO BE PREPARED FOR TRUMP LOSING”: AS CHAOS ENGULFS TRUMP CAMPAIGN, INGRAHAM, OTHER LOYALISTS LOOK FOR THE NEXT THING
A couple of weeks ago, Roger Ailes’s widow, Elizabeth, invited Fox News host Laura Ingraham and a few others for dinner at her $36 million Palm Beach home. The political conversation around the table was melancholy, a person familiar with the gathering recalled. With COVID cases hitting record highs and Donald Trump’s poll numbers going in the opposite direction, guests agreed that Trump is probably incapable, or unwilling, to take steps to turn things around. “We have to be prepared for Trump losing,” Ingraham told her dinner companions, according to the source. Perhaps anticipating that Fox News could pivot in a post-Trump media environment, Ingraham said she’s been in talks to take over for Rush Limbaugh, who recently revealed his Stage 4 lung cancer might force him off the radio. “Laura’s really interested in Rush’s job,” a person close to Ingraham said. (Ingraham did not respond to a request for comment.)
In the days since the Palm Beach dinner, Trump’s political standing has slipped further.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/07/chaos-engulfs-trump-campaign
‘She knows what she’s here for.’ How the Trump family dissed Melania when brazen Donald introduced 28-year-old model at a family Father’s Day meal while he was still married to Marla Maples, niece reveals in new book
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8503189/Trump-family-dissed-Melania-Donald-brought-Fathers-Day-meal.html
In Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, Mary describes walking past paintings of former First Ladies inside the building on her way to meet the President.
She stopped at one of Hillary Clinton and silently thought to herself ‘how this could have happened?’
The whole Trump family was there including Donald’s son Eric, who didn’t recognize Mary because they hadn’t seen each other since he was in high school.
Mary says they all posed for photos in the Oval Office, including Mary who mugged up for one behind the Resolute Desk.
After looking at the photo of herself later she saw Fred Sr and describes him as ‘hovering behind me like a ghost’.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8503189/Trump-family-dissed-Melania-Donald-brought-Fathers-Day-meal.html
It’s a shame that no one pushed the two of them over the railing. It would have saved the world a lot of grief and, literally, over 133,000 lives here in the US>
Lincoln Project just gets better and better!!! Wow!
Learn their names!
https://mobile.twitter.com/ProjectLincoln/status/1280961056261767168
Looks like The Lincoln Project is making good on their promise to take down all of the Trumptard Senators. There are names on that list that are not up for re-election this year. Marco Rubio. Ted Cruz. I just hope when they are The Lincoln Project is still there and is still willing to take them down.
The new book, officially being published July 14, is also consistent with Gwenda Blair’s richly detailed 2001 book “The Trumps.” Blair showed how the Trumps have been schemers all the way back to 1885 when Friedrich Drumpf fled the German draft, came to America, changed his name, got rich running bordellos and lied to get his American citizenship.
Friedrich died during the pandemic a century ago from influenza that killed 50 million people worldwide. That his grandson has no understanding of the science of pandemics, is itself a revealing insight into the utter lack of traditional family values in the self-proclaimed “very stable genius” who now resides in the White House.
Like my 2016 biography The Making of Donald Trump, his niece’s book is a work of reliable information that he desperately hopes you won’t read because nothing is more dangerous to Donald than accuracy and truth.
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/investigative-journalist-whos-been-covering-trump-for-35-years-explains-why-you-need-to-take-marys-trumps-book-seriously/
https://www.thedp.com/article/2019/08/penn-degrees-revoked-college-admissions
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8504907/Rudy-Giuliani-says-called-NYPD-Sacha-Baron-Cohen-tried-prank-interview.html
https://www.al.com/news/2020/07/federal-judge-allows-roy-moore-suit-against-borat-actor-sacha-baron-cohen-to-go-forward.html