Trump's niece Mary wants 'utterly incapable' uncle to resign as 'it's dangerous to allow him' to lead country
Mary Trump has said she would call on President Donald J. Trump to resign from office if she were in the Oval Office today. Trump's niece had visited the White House in April 2017, when her uncle was four months into his presidency. At the time, she told him, “Don’t let them get you down.”
“He already seemed very strained by the pressures," Mary said in an interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC News’ Good Morning America, which aired Wednesday. "You know, he’d never been in a situation before where he wasn’t entirely protected from criticism, or accountability, or things like that. And I think Michael Flynn had just had to be fired, and from the get-go, it hadn’t been going well, in particular."
“I just remember thinking, he seems tired, he seems — this is not what he signed up for, if he even knows what he signed up for. And I thought his response was actually more enlightening than my statement," she continued. "And he said, ‘They won’t get me.’ And so far, looks like he’s right.”
Stephanopoulos asked Mary what she would tell her uncle if she were in the Oval Office today. “Resign," she said in response, adding that her uncle is "utterly incapable of leading this country, and it's dangerous to allow him to do so."
The future president was raised in a “dysfunctional” family where “money stood in” for acts of love, Mary said during the interview. “I’m a Trump, everything is about money in this family,” she said, noting, however, that she was different from them. “Money stood in for everything else. It was literally the only currency that the family trafficked in.”
Mary's book, “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man," paints a rather embarrassing portrait of Trump and his family's history. Among a number of unfounded allegations, Mary has claimed that her uncle had a friend take the SATs for him so he could get transferred from Fordham University to the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. A White House spokesperson has, however, deemed the claim "completely false."
"I've been told this by people in my family. I am absolutely confident that it's true," Mary told ABC, clarifying that she never met the person and wasn't sure if he's still alive. "In terms of documentation now, I can't prove it, but I can certainly say with a hundred percent certainty that I was told the story by a source very close to Donald."
Furthermore, Mary portrayed the president's father Fred Trump as an emotionally abusive person who caused irreparable damage to her father Fred Trump Jr. and his younger brother Donald. "The only reason Donald escaped the same fate is that his personality served his father's purpose. That's what sociopaths do: They co-opt others and use them toward their own ends — ruthlessly and efficiently, with no tolerance for dissent or resistance," she wrote.
Soon after initial reports of the book's contents, White House deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews responded to a number of allegations that were made. "The president describes the relationship he had with his father as warm and said his father was very good to him," she said in a statement. "He said his father was loving and not at all hard on him as a child. Also, the absurd SAT allegation is completely false."