Too Much and Never Enough

Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump, PhD.  225 pp.

I'm going to start out by saying I cannot put into words how much I despise and fear the current person holding the office of President of the U.S. This book, written by his niece, explains a whole lot about why that person is the way he is. Being brought up the son of Fred Trump, an insensitive "sociopath" who had no time for anyone's "failure" to be what he determined they should be. After essentially destroying his first son, and namesake, all the focus went to "Donny" who could do no wrong and got anything he wanted even when it belonged to another family member. The death of Fred Jr. barely registered as a blip in the family who casually stayed home as he was dying in a hospital. With the exception of Fred Jr.'s children, the entire family took part in the distorted view of the Trump family's "malignant dysfunction." Some may see this as a retaliation by Mary Trump for being ruthlessly removed from her grandfather's will which denied her and her brother as children of Fred Jr. their portion of the Trump fortune, the amount which was falsely listed as millions less than the true worth. However, if that were the case, there is much more dirt that is already public knowledge that she could have included but didn't. As far as I'm concerned the only person in the family who deserves any sympathy is Fred Jr.'s disabled grandson who was denied the family medical insurance when his father and aunt sued for their inheritance.