Too Much and Never Enough by Mary L. Trump, PhD
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Too Much and Never Enough
Mary L. Trump, PhD
Spoiler Alert
August 20, 2020
Setting
The White House, Washington, D.C.
New York, NY (Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan)
This book written by Mary L. Trump, PhD, Niece to Donald Trump, 45th President
Characters (Wikipedia.org)
Elizabeth Christ Trump (October 10, 1880 – June 6, 1966) was a German businesswoman and is considered the matriarch of the Trump family. She married Frederick Trump in 1902. While raising their three children, the early death of her husband in 1918 required the 37-year-old widow to manage their properties. She founded the real estate development company E. Trump & Son with her son, Fred Trump. E. Trump’s grandson, Donald Trump is President of the United States
Donald’s Father: Frederick Trump (October 11, 1905 – June 25, 1999) was a prominent American real estate developer in New York City. He was the father of Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States
Donald’s Mother: Mary Anne Trump (May 10, 1912 – August 7, 2000) was a Scottish-American homemaker and philanthropist known for being the mother of Donald Trump. Born in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, UK; she emigrated to the United States in 1930 and became a naturalized citizen in 1942 and left US in 1997 for Sussex, England and 3 years later she died in US when she visited her younger son. She raised five children with her husband and lived in the New York area.
Sister: Maryanne Trump Barry (born April 5, 1937) is an American attorney and a retired United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, appointed by President Bill Clinton. She is the eldest sister of U.S. President Donald Trump.
Brother: Frederick Trump Jr. (1938–1981) was Donald Trump’s older brother. While attending Lehigh University, he joined a Jewish fraternity, Sigma Alpha Mu, even though he was not Jewish. After he graduated, he briefly worked for his father, who wanted his oldest son to be “invulnerable” so he could take over the business, but Fred Jr. was the opposite in personality He left to pursue his dream of being a pilot, which created tension. According to Fred Jr.’s daughter, Mary L. Trump, her grandfather “dismantled [Fred Jr.] by devaluing and degrading every aspect of his personality.” Both he and Donald mocked him for his decision to become an airline pilot. He soon got a job piloting for Trans World Airlines.
Sister: Elizabeth Trump (born 1942) is an older sister of Donald Trump.[67] In 1989, she married film producer James Grau.[68] She worked as an executive for Chase Manhattan Bank, before retiring to Florida.[
Donald J. Trump 45th and Current President of the United States. Donald, the fourth child, was born in 1946.
Brother: Robert Trump (August 26, 1948 – August 15, 2020) was an American real-estate developer and business executive. He was the younger brother of Donald Trump, the 45th president of the United States.
Wife: Ivana Trump (born February 20, 1949) is a Czech-American businesswoman and former model who was the first wife of Donald Trump. They married in 1977 and divorced in 1992. They have three children together: Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric.
Wife: Marla Ann Maples (born October 27, 1963) is an American actress and television personality. Maples was the second wife of Donald Trump. They married in 1993 and divorced in 1999, and had one daughter, Tiffany
Wife: Melania Trump (born April 26, 1970) is a Slovenian-American former model, businesswoman, and the current first lady of the United States, as the wife of the 45th president of the United States, Donald Trump.
Son-in-law: Jared Corey Kushner (born January 10, 1981) is an American investor, real-estate developer, and newspaper publisher who is senior advisor to his father-in-law, Donald Trump, the president of the United States. Kushner is the son of the former real-estate developer Charles Kushner and is married to Ivanka Trump, President Trump’s daughter and fellow advisor. He is the co-founder and part owner of Cadre, an online real-estate investment platform.
Daughter: Ivanka Trump (born October 30, 1981) serves President Trump since 2017 as advisor. Ivanka is the daughter and second child of President Trump and his first wife, Ivana. She is the first Jewish member of a first family, having converted before marrying her husband, Jared Kushner.
Son: Donald Trump Jr. (born December 31, 1977) is an American businessman and former reality television personality. He is the eldest child of US president Donald Trump and businesswoman Ivana Trump.
Son: Eric Trump (born January 6, 1984) is an American businessman, philanthropist, and former reality television personality. He is the third child and second son of President Donald Trump and his first wife, Ivana Trump.
Daughter: Tiffany Trump (born October 13, 1993) is an American socialite. She is notable for her Instagram account, where she has over 1.2 million followers and frequently posts pictures of her lifestyle. She is the fourth child of the 45th and current president of the United States, Donald Trump, and the only child with his second wife, Marla Maples.
Son: Barron Trump (born March 20, 2006) is Donald Trump’s youngest child and his only child with Melania Trump. Barron Trump was baptized at the Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea in Palm Beach, Florida. In addition to English, Barron is fluent in Slovene. Barron did not immediately move into the White House when his father became president but remained at Trump Tower with his mother until the end of the 2016–2017 school year. He now attends St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Potomac, Maryland.
Barack Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Barack Obama was the first African American president of the United States. He previously served as a U.S. senator from Illinois from 2005 to 2008 and an Illinois state senator from 1997 to 2004
Michael Cohen (born August 25, 1966) is an American disbarred lawyer who served as an attorney for U.S. President Donald Trump from 2006–2018. Cohen was a vice-president of The Trump Organization, and the personal counsel to Trump, and was often described by media as Trump’s “fixer.” He served as co-president of Trump Entertainment and was a board member of the Eric Trump Foundation, a children’s health charity. From 2017 to 2018, Cohen was deputy finance chairman of the Republican National Committee.
Mitchell McConnell Jr. (born February 20, 1942) is an American politician serving as Kentucky’s senior United States senator and as Senate Majority Leader. McConnell is the second Kentuckian to serve as a party leader in the Senate, the longest-serving U.S. senator for Kentucky in history, and the longest-serving leader of U.S. Senate Republicans in history.
Rudolph Giuliani (born May 28, 1944), is an American attorney and politician. He led the 1980s federal prosecution of New York City mafia bosses and led the city’s civic cleanup as its mayor from 1994 to 2001. In 2017, Donald Trump appointed him cybersecurity advisor. In 2018, he joined Trump’s personal legal team, Giuliani has been a Republican since the 1980s, the US Associate Attorney General from 1981 to 1983, he was the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1983 to 1989.
Kamala Harris (born October 20, 1964) is an American politician and lawyer who has served as the junior United States senator from California since 2017. She is the presumptive Democratic vice-presidential nominee in the 2020 election
Mary Lea Trump (born May 3, 1965) is an American psychologist, businessperson, and author. She is a niece of President Donald J. Trump. Her 2020 book about him and the family, Too Much and Never Enough, sold nearly one million copies on the day of its release.
Michael Pence (born June 7, 1959) is an American politician and lawyer serving as the 48th vice president of the United States, since 2017. He previously was the 50th governor of Indiana from 2013 to 2017 and a member of the United States House of Representatives from 2001 to 2013.
John Trump (August 21, 1907 – February 21, 1985) was an American electrical engineer, inventor, and physicist. A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1936 to 1973, he was a recipient of the National Medal of Science and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. John Trump was noted for developing rotational radiation therapy. Together with Robert J. Van de Graaff, he developed one of the first million-volt X-ray generators. He was the paternal uncle of President Donald Trump.
Roy Cohn (February 20, 1927 – August 2, 1986) was an American lawyer best known for being Senator Joseph McCarthy’s chief counsel during the Army–McCarthy hearings in 1954, for assisting with McCarthy’s investigations of suspected communists, and as a top political fixer.
Summary of Too Much and Never Enough
Mary L. Trump, a trained psychologist, niece of Donald Trump, President of the United States, and author of Too Much and Never Enough, shines a bright light on the toxic family where the president was raised in Queens, NY. Mary Trump is qualified to judge the traits that make the president tick through her professional training as a psychologist and her participation as a day to day member of the Trump extended family.
Mary Trump describes a nightmare of traumas, destructive relationships, and a tragic combination of neglect and abuse which formed the upbringing of our current president. She describes how specific events and general family patterns created the damaged man who now resides in the White House. She describes how Donald dismissed and derided his father when he succumbed to Alzheimer’s.
Mary Trump went to see Donald, her Uncle, just after he took residence in the Oval Office of the White House in 2017. As usual, Donald made her, and other visitors come to him and he remained seated while others stood. Maryanne, Donald’s sister, told a story about the time when Donald was seven years old that his brother dumped a bowl of mashed potatoes on him for being a brat. Donald sat behind the Resolute Desk and listened with his arms crossed, clearly unhappy to hear this family story repeated while he was enjoying such prestige as President of the United States of America. He was still feeling the sting of that long-ago humiliation.
Donald does not attend church often and in fact he has no religious principles. Women, he refers to as ugly fat slobs. Men, some of them, even successful ones, he refers to as losers. The family joins in with this kind of derision and dehumanization of other people. Commonplace at the Trump household.
As Donald grew up under the guidance of his critical father, he became his own cheerleader and began to believe his own hype. To this day he lies, misrepresents, and fabricates whatever is convenient at the moment. Mary Trump, our author, has no problem calling him a narcists and a sociopath. He also meets the psychologist’s definition for the problem known as antisocial personality disorder. He is commonly found guilty, at least out of court, for criminality, arrogance, and disregard for the rights of others.
Donald drinks up to 12 Diet Cokes per day and sleeps little. Except for golf he does not exercise much but he does not drink alcohol nor use drugs. A true clinical diagnosis of his behavior would be impossible while he occupies the institution known as the West Wing.
The stresses he experiences in the White House are the most he has ever suffered in his life and his delusions have been revealed more starkly than ever before.
Currently the Covid 19 pandemic, the economic crisis, and the countries’ deepening divides have exacerbated his mental ailments and his trend towards devastating uncertainty about our future. Managing those challenges successfully would require courage, strength of character, deference to experts, and the confidence to take responsibility for the problems. None of those are traits that Donald Trump possess. His current traits have become official U.S. policy, affecting millions of Americans. Donald understands nothing about history, constitutional principles, geopolitics, or diplomacy.
As of the time this report was written, the death count for Covid 19 has risen to 165,000 amongst over 2 million cases of the virus nationwide. “If he is allowed a second term, it will be the end of American democracy,” according to Mary L. Trump.
Donald has always needed to perpetuate the fiction Mary L. Trump’s grandfather started that he is strong, smart, and extraordinary because facing the truth, he is none of these things and facing the fact is too terrifying for him to contemplate.
Donald Trump’s Parents
Fred and Mary Trump, Donald’s parents, lived in a large house in Queens, NY in the late 1940’s. Maryanne, the oldest child, lived there with them in 1948 when she was 12 years old, she found her mother bleeding in the bathroom. She and her father took the mother to the hospital where she subsequently underwent a hysterectomy. Robert, the youngest child, was 9 months old.
Fred, the father, seemed to have no emotional needs at all. He was a sociopath, and Mary, the mother had many physical and psychological needs. Fred was lacking in empathy, and indifference for right and wrong, abusive behavior, and a lack of interest in the rights of others.
Fred’s lack of real human feelings, his rigidity as a parent and husband, and his sexist’s belief in a woman’s innate inferiority left Mary and the children feeling unsupported. Fred did not believe that caring for the children was his job and he kept to his 12 hour per day job at Trump Management expecting the children to look out for themselves.
Fred focused on what was important to him, Trump Management, Inc., building garages and later starting to build a large apartment development, Shore Haven. Comforting behavior towards the children was considered weak, and annoying. For the two boys, Donald and Robert, needing became equated with humiliation, despair, and hopelessness. It was best for Fred if the children did not need anything, from him.
To cope, Donald developed primitive defenses marked by hostility to others and a pattern of bullying, disrespect and aggressiveness. These characteristics became hardened into Donald’s personality and exist there today. Fred Trump came to validate and encourage the things about Donald that make him the most unlovable—all things that are a direct result of Fred’s abuse.
Shore Haven, the first development, turned out to be a phenomenal success bringing in piles of money.
Financial worth to Fred was the same as self-worth.
For the kids, lying was defensive and a way of life, a mode of self-aggrandizement meant to convince other people that he was better than he was.
Fred did not respect his oldest son and so neither did Donald. Fred thought Freddy was weak and Donald was determined not to fit in the same category. ‘
“Dad’s trying to teach us to be real men and Freddy’s failing.” Donald said.
Lying is ok, admitting you are wrong, or apologizing is weakness. In life, there is only one winner and everybody else is a loser. Kindness is weakness as is the willingness to share. Many people now confuse arrogance of Donald with strength, and false bravado for accomplishment, superficial interest in them with charisma.
The family was split deeply along gender lines.
Donald had plenty of experience watching his older brother trying to please his father and failing. Later Freddy began to observe Donald’s disrespect for authority, and he tried to adapt it as his own.
At age 13, Donald went to New York Military Academy which employed a system of punishment and reward, something new to Donald. Even so, at the Academy, Donald reaffirmed the belief that whoever had the power got to decide what was right and wrong. Anything that helped you maintain power was right even if it was not always fair.
Freddy, Donald’s Brother
Freddy put himself through flight school in college, and he got a job as a commercial airline pilot with TWA after graduation. He flew the Boston to Los Angles route for less than a year, but his drinking got the better of him and he left the airline and returned home to work for Trump Management.
Linda Trump was Freddy’s wife and the mother of Mary L. Trump, author of this book. TWA offered Freddy a chance to resign and he could keep his license because of drinking too much. Freddy accepted the offer and the family moved back to New York.
After working in New York and Oklahoma for two small airlines, Freddy was out of the pilot business in less than a year.
Freddy attempted to work for his father on a large real estate development, but that did not work out and Freddy fell from approval by his father. Donald recognized the opportunity and jumped in to begin his own real estate career.
It remained for Donald to get his degree, and he picked Wharton at the University of Pennsylvania. It was a hard school to get into and Donald hired Joe Shapiro to take his SAT test for him. Donald, not lacking for funds, paid his friend well to take the test for him. He was not a great student at Wharton, but he used the skills he had learned growing up in the Trump family and his charm to help him finish at Wharton. He had a way of getting others to do what he wanted them to. He had the confidence of a bully who knows what he wants and for some reason never has to fight for it.
Donald graduated from Wharton in the Spring of ‘68 and went straight to work for Trump Management. From the beginning Donald was given more respect and paid more money than Freddy had ever been. This helped to consolidate Donald’s position in Trump Management as heir apparent.
The Steeplechase project was blocked by the city, but the father walked away with $1.3 million in profits and Freddy got the blame. In 1971 Donald was promoted to President of Trump Management at age 24. At that time, Donald had been on the job with Trump Management for three years, had little experience and even fewer qualifications.
The next project was an affordable housing project funded by the government. Donald seemed to think his job description was to brag about his accomplishments and refuse to rent apartments to black people although that was a requirement of the federal money that funded the project.
Fred sold the project for $6.75 million. Donald got all the credit and took most of the profits.
In 1973 the Justice Department Civil Rights Division sued Trump Management for violating the 1968 Fair Housing Act. Trump Management using Roy Cohn, as attorney counter-sued the Justice Department for $100 million. They alleged that the government was claiming false and misleading statements about his clients. ‘
The Countersuit was thrown out of court and the government’s suit was completed with no penalties although Trump Management was required to change their requirements for renting practices.
Moving to Manhattan
Donald’s first two projects in Manhattan were the Grand Hyatt and Trump Tower, both of which were finished on time and on budget.
Maryanne was appointed and approved as Federal District Judge in Manhattan.
Donald’s debts began to grow, exceeding $300 million as he bought casinos in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Donald’s personal obligations grew to $975 million by the end of 1990.
Donald bought a yacht for $28 million. His divorce settlement with Ivana was $10 million and he continued to live well on a daily basis. In 1990 the banks reached agreement with Trump to furnish him with a $450,000 per month allowance which was for doing nothing and in fact for having failed miserably with his casinos and other businesses.
Donald continued spending cash he did not have but the banks kept a close eye on him, a short leash which Donald did not like but he kept taking the money.
Bankruptcies and failures continued to mount. Donald did not accept failure nor admit that he had made a mistake in any case. Donald’s habit was to call every failure a victory knowing that he would be bailed out by his father or his lenders.
Fred Trump died on June 25, 1999.
Conclusion
Donald was never required to acquire expertise to acquire or retain power. All of this has protected Donald from his own failures while allowing him to believe himself a success. Donald only had one liability left at this time, the ease with which he could be duped by more powerful men. Fred surrounded Donald with people who knew what they were doing while giving him the credit; people who propped him up and lied for him and who knew how the family business worked.
As president, Donald is like 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 need for affirmation is so great that he doesn’t seem to notice that his largest group of supporters are people who would not be caught with him outside of a Trump Rally. His insecurities have created a need for compliments that disappear as soon as he has soaked them in. Nothing is ever enough. The amount of stress he is under has grown enormously since his inauguration. His biggest effort is keeping Americans from knowing his weaknesses. He is totally unprepared to solve his own problems or adequately cover his tracks. The people that support him in the White House are weaker than he is, and they are the people keeping him in his position.
Donald has continually been given a pass for his transgressions and failures—against traditions, against decency, against the law and against fellow human beings. His acquittal in the Senate impeachment trial is another example of his being rewarded for bad behavior. The lies may become true in his mind as soon as he utters them, but they are still lies. It’s just another way for him to see what he can get away with. And so far, he’s gotten away with everything.
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