Mary L. Trump

"Donald has always been protected and continues to be protected from his inadequacies... incompetence... lack of knowledge, from his failures... e's always had support from more powerful people... prot…"

"I knew this simply because of my family knowledge, and as a. There is no bottom... to... how bad this can get, to how egregious his behavior can be."

"Donald learned that you could never admit you're wrong. That was considered a weakness and we've seen that, starkly, with the Covid 19 situation. He didn't do anything right away, and then when it was…"

"I do feel that I have to do whatever I can to make sure that people are informed and understand exactly what's going on with this man."

"I have no problem calling Donald a narcissist—he meets all nine crieria outlined in the —but the label gets us only so far. ...A case could be made that he also meets the criteria for antisocial disor…"

"e've already seen... that he's capable of... either acting badly or refusing to act in a way that would be appropriate to protecting the country, and the people in this country. So... as we go, and ma…"

"Donald learned that in order to be, not just protected from his father but favored by his father, he needed to be this larger than life, great, fantastic... Part of it was the toxic positivity, and pa…"

"This is far beyond garden-variety narcissism; Donald is not simply weak, his ego is a fragile thing that must be bolstered every moment because he knows deep down that he is nothing of what he claims …"