Too Much and Never Enough

How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

By: Mary L. Trump Ph.D.

Narrated by: Mary L. Trump 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."

Really Impressed

Not what I expected. The author primarily focuses on Fred Trump (Donald's father, and the author's grandfather) and his toxic effect it had on his family. Thus painting a picture of the environment the Trump kids grew up in. The story goes into greater detail about Freddie Trump (Fred's eldest son, brother to Donald, and the author's father) and his pejorative relationship with the family patriarch.
Well written and great flow.

Let the truth be told! Finally justice and truth!

Riveting, brutally honest and daring details about the man who will risk the well being of YOU and his own country to remain in power. If you are seeking the truth and your own personal justice you will need this read. You need to know what is in this book, and you need to know it now. 

Must Read

This account of the Trump family is both surprising and not surprising to me. After watching the Trump administration unfold for the last three and a half years, this is exactly the kind of family life I imagine he'd grown up in. It is sad, but what is more troubling is that he is running our country and that somehow we allow that to happen. Thank you Mary Trump for sharing, we all needed a little bit more of our eyes opened.

I love this book!

I've never been a fan of Donald Trump. Everything about him rubbed me the wrong way, and now I know why. I love that she explains the phycological effects the parents neglect had on them. Mary doesn't just blast Trump for being a horrible person, she explains who he is and why in an empathetic, yet raw way. I'm so grateful to her for writing and recording this, and standing up for what's right.

Aha! So that’s why!

Mary Trump writes her truth that exposes a family history of dysfunction and just why he acts like he does. Informative but very sad to see the results that we, as a nation, are experiencing and suffering.