Too Much and Never Enough

How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

By: Mary L. Trump Ph.D. Ph.D.

Narrated by: Mary L. Trump Ph.D. Ph.D.

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, New York, 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 occupied 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 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.

Critic reviews

"Psychologist Mary Trump said her biggest regret is that she did not tell Americans to vote against her uncle, Donald Trump, when he ran for the presidency. She tells her own story in this audiobook, speaking quite eloquently. . . . She talks about the president's childhood, when he learned to be selfish, manipulative, and greedy at the hands of his father, Fred (Mary's grandfather). She speaks about family holiday meals—characterized by jealousy, bitterness, favoritism, and mean-spiritedness outweighing the little love in the room. This is a short audiobook, and much of it is about other family members, including Mary's father, Freddy, who was ostracized after growing up in Donald's shadow. It shows that despite the family's great wealth, lack of love makes the Trumps poorer than most of us."

A Reaformation

Mary Trump's book was waiting for me in my audio que first thing this morning. As I proceeded with my 'stay at home' routine, I carried my laptop and listened. I finished an hour ago. It is well written and flows really well. It was good to hear the story in Mary's voice.
I did not learn anything that I did not already know or suspect, however, it was a reaformation of as Rick Wilson wrote: "Everything Trump Touches Dies".-- but with an insider's view and direct knowledge.
In the early 1980's when The Donald and Ivana were making the talk show rounds my husband said in disgust "Trump is a proclaimed self made man who thinks because he has experienced a bit of success thinks he is an expert on very thing". Little did we know then. I think Trump's first book should have been titled "The Art of the Lie".
I thank the author for telling her story and hopefully the country will benefit.

Eye opening... confirming... and heart wrenching

Initially, I didn’t believe the author would share things I hadn’t already gleaned... I was wrong! This memoir also confirmed information that I assumed... I wasn’t wrong! Finally, it was heart wrenching that the author affirmatively laid before the reader that “...the love of money is the root of all evil...” and that “...pride cometh before a fall...”. God have mercy on our nation!!!

A MUST read or listen.

What a sad but dangerous man. Thank you for the insight. This is a must read to understand what is going on in our country and why.

THE TRUTH WE ALL NEEDED TO HEAR

I️ get how people think she is complaining, BUT SHE ISN'T!!!!! All she's doing is proving a point. And she is doing it as a DOCTOR!!!! Everyone is entitled to their point of view, however, when I️ read some peoples' remarks, all I️ can see is how you don't care about the facts. She is spelling out why he is how he is. She even pities him!!! She breaks it all down for us in the most basic way. She chooses key points to show her proof. I️ liked it. Finished it in one sit. My only complaint is the reading speed so nothing too serious. I️ read it on 1.5x. Recommended.

Intense. Moving. Appalling.

I can’t imagine what it took for Mary to write this book, to chronicle the tragedy of the Trump family and its affect on so many inside and outside its circle. Understanding the dynamics that produced D. Trump (which one could almost intuit given what we’ve seen for the last four years) isn’t comforting. It’s a “call to arms” to make sure he’s limited to one term. Period.

I’m so sorry that Mary had to live through the horrors of such a dysfunctional family. I thank her for her courage to share it.