Trump's father turned him into a 'killer', POTUS sacrificed his goodness to be in dad's good books: Niece Mary
In a recent interview, while promoting her tell-all book, 'Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man,' Mary Trump revealed how her grandfather made her uncle, President Donald Trump, into a 'killer.'
Speaking to ABC News chief anchor George Stephanopoulos, Mary revealed that her grandfather, Fred Trump, was a man with "no empathy." "He was incredibly driven in a way that turned other people, including his children, his wife, into pawns to be used to his own ends. If somebody could be of service to him, then he would use them. If they couldn't be, he excised them," she said.
This was the reason that Fred tried to get rid of his eldest son and Mary's father, Fred Trump Jr, as he was "the wrong kind of person." As a result, Donald, who was the next in line, made sure that he was everything that Fred Jr was not in order to be in the good books of his father.
"It's impossible to know who Donald might've been under different circumstances and with different parents," Mary opined. "But clearly he learned the lesson from watching his almost 8-year-old brother be punished for being kind, for being generous, for being sensitive, for having interests outside of what my grandfather thought was acceptable. You know, he loved to hang out with his friends. He loved to boat and fish and fly. By the time he graduated from college, he had his private and his professional pilot's licenses."
But the POTUS' niece did admit that her uncle was not always the "killer" that he is reputed to be now. "He was not a killer," Mary said. "And shockingly, that was a bad thing. And Donald learned that lesson. And he essentially had to sacrifice whatever goodness there may have been in him once, whatever capacities for experiencing the full range of human emotion to my grandfather. And on the surface of things, yes, he's been successful, however, you want to define that term. I mean, certainly in material terms and in terms of his current position. But at what cost? And I would suggest it was at the cost of him, and sadly, now, all of us."
She added that it was his dad who turned Donald into a "killer." "He learned to become the killer you mentioned. The man who needs to succeed at all costs, who recognizes that other people are expendable, who does not need to take responsibility, who will do anything to get attention, financial rewards, and to 'win,'" she said.
Incidentally, a New York Times article titled 'Can We Call Trump a Killer' written by columnist Charles M Blow went viral last month with many taking to Twitter to reiterate that he was indeed a 'killer' because of how poorly he had handled the situation with coronavirus that claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans. "Can We Call Trump A Killer? 1. Ignored the early warnings 2. Denied the science about the virus 3. Pushed chemical ingestion as a 'cure' 4. Called for 'liberation' of quarantined states 5. Made masks a partisan issue 6. Demanded swift reopenings. DAMN RIGHT HE’S A KILLER," one user said, while another wrote, "Can we call trump a killer? Yep. U denied #COVID19, called it a hoax, said it wld magically disappear, told ppl the answer cld be injecting disinfectants & bleach, u didn’t get PPEs to front line workers, still not enuff testing & u insisted we open the country. #TrumpIsKillingUs."