Donald Trump’s estranged niece slammed her uncle and his recent debate performance.
Mary Trump, 59, made the remarks on Saturday. Substackfollowing a series of scathing interviews and social media posts released alongside her new memoir.
The book, titled “Who Could Love You?” and its accompanying media tour have been critical of the former president and was released Tuesday.
In it, he describes the Republican presidential candidate as a “failure” and a “bully.” The new blog post was titled “Cheating as a way of life, what Donald keeps getting done.”
The latter came just days after the first, and hours after she appeared on MSNBC to discuss the debate between Trump and Vice President Harris. There, she said Trump had suffered a “resounding defeat” from which he will never recover.
Mary Trump, 59, made the remarks on Substack on Saturday, following a series of scathing interviews and social media posts published alongside her new memoir. An image from one of those interviews, conducted on Saturday, can be seen here.
Titled Who Could Love You?, the tome and accompanying media tour have been critical of the former president and was published on Tuesday.
“Donald spent the weekend, as he often does, lying to the American people,” said Mary Trump, whose grandfather, Fred Trump Sr., founded the Trump Organization.
‘Ranting about all the ways the debate was rigged against him,’ he added.
‘From the moderators giving Kamala Harris questions ahead of time to her having a microphone hidden in her ears through which other people told her what to say.’
Trump made those claims in the wake of Tuesday’s event, prompting his niece to compare them to claims he made after his loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
“With my uncle it’s always projection,” said the psychologist who earned her master’s degree studying literature at Columbia.
“And that’s never more true than when he’s in the process of trying to pre-rig an upcoming election.”
The author proceeds to point out a post made by his uncle on Truth Social Saturday, in which his uncle warned viewers that he would jail anyone who engaged in “unscrupulous behavior” during this year’s race.
She quoted the full post: highlighting how his relative had written that this year’s election “would be under the closest professional scrutiny” and that Democrats involved in “rampant cheating and betrayal” in 2020 “will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.”
To this, he wrote: “Not surprisingly, this speech ignored the fact that the only people who were caught cheating in the last presidential election were a few elderly white Republicans living in the Villages and, of course, him.”
“The stakes are much higher now than they were in 2016 or 2020,” he added.
“And he will stop at nothing to return to the White House, which at this point is the only thing that will save his dwindling fortune or keep him out of prison.”
The post goes on to mention the supposed attempts by mainstream media to “sanity-wash” such “delusional and often incomprehensible ramblings,” which, Mary wrote, now includes simply ignoring them.
Showing his disapproval of such strategies, he noted: ‘After Donald made the aforementioned threat against election workers, donors and operatives on Saturday night, the story did not appear on the front page of The New York Times on Sunday.
“Donald is clearly telling us what is coming and we can’t rely on corporate media to confirm it,” he continued.
‘This election is too important for us to rely on a media that continues, against all evidence to the contrary, to normalize a deeply sick traitor just so they can preserve the horse race of it all.’
He then claimed that his uncle wasn’t trying to win fairly anyway, and that “he knows he just needs to keep things close enough so he can cheat by getting his friends in the House and the Supreme Court to give him the election win.”
“We need to do everything we can to prevent that from happening.
“We need to be absolutely sure that the entire Republican Party is headed in a way that forces it to reconsider the path it’s taking,” he concluded. “And that’s up to us.”
The post came just hours after the author’s last interview appearance as part of her book tour, which saw her speak to big names like Anderson Cooper and MSNBC’s Alex Witt after joining the Biden campaign following the first debate in June.
In ‘Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir,’ Mary writes that Donald told her father, Freddy Jr., that he was a ‘glorified bus driver.’
On Saturday, he spoke to MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace and said his uncle had suffered a “dismal failure” in the second debate against Harris on Tuesday.
“I think Donald showed his cards, well, during the debate, sure, but immediately afterward,” he said.
‘Winners don’t show up at the spinning room and turn down the chance to win again.’
He added that the loss was “a narcissistic wound that he will never overcome.”
The comments are in line with those expressed in his book, the third in a series that began in 2020 and which are all critical of the former president.
In it, he writes how his uncle used to make fun of his late father Freddy, who left the family real estate business to pursue a career as a pilot before dying at the age of 42.
His death came after a lifetime of drinking, and Mary writes how Trump’s brother’s father was allegedly “embarrassed” by him.
It also details how Donald participated in the alleged abuse, telling his father he was a “glorified bus driver” in one of many alleged attacks that led to the alcohol abuse that caused his death in 1981.
The comments echo those in his book, which is critical of the former president. In it, he writes how his uncle used to mock his late father Freddy (seen with Trump in 1988), who left the family business to pursue a career as a pilot before dying at age 42.
Mary, who now works as a therapist, writes at one point: “Nobody loved Donald when he was a child, not even his parents.” She calls on Americans to vote against him.
The Republican presidential candidate is portrayed in the book as a “failure” and a “sensitive bully” who beat up younger children as a child.
Mary, who now works as a therapist, at one point writes: ‘Nobody liked Donald as a child, not even his parents.
‘As he grew older, those personality traits hardened into the hostile indifference and aggressive disrespect he had developed as a young child to help cope with the abandonment of his mother, because she was seriously ill and psychologically unstable, and his father because, as a sociopath, he had no interest in his children outside of Freddy.
‘Yet the interest was not love: Fred (father) was incapable of loving anyone.’
Mary had a reunion of sorts with her uncle in April 2017 when she accepted an invitation to visit him at the White House, the book recalls.
But she regretted it from the moment she agreed, she writes, adding that, combined with the Trump administration’s policies, she had to resort to ketamine therapy.
Mary also underwent EMDR therapy, famously used by Prince Harry, which involves moving the eyelids in a particular way to heal trauma.
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