Seems like Mary Trump's book will come out next week, despite all her family's best efforts to squelch her. With so many advance copies now in circulation, the story will get out one way or the other, and from the reviews it is none too pretty a picture of the Trump family.
Much of this we have surmised from the information publicly available on Trump and his relationship with his father. Donald has said many times that he doesn't drink because of his older brother's alcoholism, but we can take away from the excerpts that this was just a way to promote himself not a show of sympathy toward his brother, who died at 42. However, this teetotalism has been disputed by others as well.
In fact, there is not much about Donald that we don't know. The only problem has been to verify the many stories that swirl around about his abusive behavior toward any one who challenges his authority, especially women. Mary sheds some light on his misogyny by sharing a few stories about how he treated her badly.
She described one incident after Trump had separated from Marla Maples and was dating Melania. He apparently told his new girlfriend that he had Mary ghost writing a new book to help her recover from dropping out of school and getting into drugs. When Mary heard this story through her Uncle Robert, she was shocked as the only thing true about the story was that she had dropped out of college at that point but was by no means destitute. Trump apparently wanted Melania to think he was this great humanitarian, not that Melania probably cared much one way or another about his family.
It's these little stories that help round out the picture. She also describes her uncle as a cheapskate, regifting numerous items for birthdays and Christmas, or having something picked up at Macy's like a $12 pack of underwear he gave her for her 12th birthday. When Mary was older, Uncle Donald noted how she filled out her swimsuit when she visited him at Mar-a-Lago.
Much of Trump's animus toward women is apparently derived from the number of times he has been spurned by celebrities. W provided a partial list and Mary added Madonna and Katarina Witt to the noteworthy rejections. He always imagined himself having a celebrity wife so he tried to make his wives into celebrities. Ivana has been the only one to claim any notoriety in her own right, and that is mostly for dishing out some juicy stories about Donald.
What makes Mary's book hard for Uncle Donald is that it strikes at his vanity. It is doubtful the book will turn many heads, but it is sure to get under the president's skin. As it turns out, Mary was the one who handed some of Donald's tax records to the New York Times, which resulted in an embarrassing expose that won the Times a Pulitzer Prize. The investigative report called into question much of Trump's purported wealth.
We heard many other stories like this. A Forbes writer revealed that Trump had lied to get on the magazine's 400 List back in the 1980s, and no one bought his claim that he was worth $10 billion when he announced his finances upon declaring his candidacy in the summer of 2015. In fact, Mark Cuban and others questioned whether he belonged in the "three comma club" at all.
According to Mary, lying is SOP in the Trump family, something drilled into them by Papa Fred. When her father, Fred Trump Jr., couldn't stand it anymore he resorted to drinking, which his younger siblings took as an object lesson, but in the wrong way. She says virtually all the pathological traits that underscore Uncle Donald's character can be traced back to Old Granddad. A genetic flaw that Donald has passed along to his children.
Of course, the White House is vehemently denying all these allegations, but you can imagine Donald munching on an apple in the Lincoln bedroom wondering what he ever did to Mary to warrant such a scathing account of him. He no doubt thought of himself as the good uncle, although he probably wondered what young Mary looked like in that underwear.
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