Too Much and Never Enough

How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

By: Mary L. Trump PhD

Narrated by: Mary L. Trump PhD

Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins

Publisher's summary

In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald’s only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world’s health, economic security, and social fabric.

Mary Trump spent much of her childhood in her grandparents’ large, imposing house in the heart of Queens, where Donald and his four siblings grew up. She describes a nightmare of traumas, destructive relationships, and a tragic combination of neglect and abuse. She explains how specific events and general family patterns created the damaged man who currently occupies the Oval Office, including the strange and harmful relationship between Fred Trump and his two oldest sons, Fred, Jr., and Donald.

A firsthand witness to countless holiday meals and family interactions, Mary brings an incisive wit and unexpected humor to sometimes grim, often confounding family events. She recounts in unsparing detail everything from her uncle Donald’s place in the family spotlight and Ivana’s penchant for regifting to her grandmother’s frequent injuries and illnesses and the appalling way Donald, Fred Trump’s favorite son, dismissed and derided him when he began to succumb to Alzheimer’s.

Numerous pundits, armchair psychologists, and journalists have sought to parse Donald J. Trump’s lethal flaws. Mary L. Trump has the education, insight, and intimate familiarity needed to reveal what makes Donald, and the rest of her clan, tick. She alone can recount this fascinating, unnerving saga, not just because of her insider’s perspective but also because she is the only Trump willing to tell the truth about one of the world’s most powerful and dysfunctional families.

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Sunlight is a better disinfectant than Clorox

Now I know why Donald sued to prevent this book from publishing. Is there another Trump family member who works at Wharton and the IRS? We need to see his grades and tax returns to save democracy!

Engrossing

Mary Trump is a captivating storyteller. Interesting from beginning to end. Would recommend to anyone wanting to gain some insight into the thought process of the "occupant" of the white house.

30min in and I'm hooked

Take away that she is speaking about our President in Chief and I am still in awe of the description of the man she writes about. Incredibly well written with plenty of wits while extremely articulate.

To Sad and Never Again

Very well done great reading by Mary
A sad tale makes you feel sorry for the imbecile to bad we didn’t know this 4 years ago
Incredible writing I have a much better understanding of what we are going through now I read it in one setting I couldn’t put it down good job

I get him now. I still hate him. But I get him.

I'm happy that Mary Trump took the time to write this. It's genuine and authentic and completely understandable. Donald Trump should resign. I finally understand why the Republicans kept him in office. I don't like it, they got what they wanted by stroking his ego. They lost their party in the deal. They became the Trump party. The GOP that used to be conservative or called conservative, is now no more than the party of racism. But they got their Supreme Court nominees, horrible tax cuts and dismantling our protections for the environment apparantly was worth the trade off. Incompetence totally unable to do anything during the pandemic has cost us the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans, and what will take longer than my lifetime to repair. Trump must resign.

Thank you for using your voice.

"He is and always will be a terrified little boy." Mary Trump
Wow, I cried when I found out that Freddie's last wishes were not fulfilled because the family had personal vendettas, I felt her pain on this one since my family burried my own mother on my birthday.
His life compares to his Presidency a narcissist through and through but that's ok because . . "Everything's great, right toots." Fred Trump
wow what a story, it's a must read.

Mary, you rock!

Mary, thanks for courageously taking a leap to write this book. Stunning, necessary & truthful. Bravo!

A cancerous family riven by mental illness

Ultimately this is a story of a family rife with mental illness who raise a family encouraging and amplifying the mental illness of the most ill child while deliberately harming the few healthy ones in their midst. The mental illness has now become a cancer infecting and harming everyone in its path.

I don't feel bad for Donald

Great storytelling. Thank you Mary-we have all lived through every single impact caused by his dysfunctional family. Now, we know why he creates his own reality while terrorizing ours.

Mary stay, Donald just go away...for good, so we never have to hear about your thoughts, distorted opinions on anything, and nonsensical lies that your followers are dumb enough to believe and make our lives worse because they do.

He doesn't read, but if he did he would say this book is very unfair and written by the same Dems that want to ruin the best economy ever, take aware your guns, and created the Russia, pandemic, and impeachment hoaxes.

If he calls it fake news Mary, that is the best validation of your brilliant work.

Amazing

I always knew I did not like Donald Trump but this book has shown me why I have even more reason to dislike and not trust him. I fear for our country if he wins this next election.