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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"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 to be."
Another quote from Mary Trump's book, this one from a USA Today article:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/07/07/mary-trump-tell-all-book-depicts-president-inept-habitual-liar/5390286002/
"In Donald's mind, even acknowledging an inevitable threat would indicate weakness. Taking responsibility would open him up to blame. Being a hero being good is impossible for him," she writes in the book.
As for his fragile ego -- Mary Trump writes about Trump having initially asked her to write The Art of the Comeback for him. But like Tony Schwartz, who is the real author of The Art of the Deal, she discovered Trump couldn't help much with writing a book that was supposedly his.
"It was an aggrieved compendium of women he had expected to date but who, having refused him, were suddenly the worst, ugliest, and fattest slobs he'd ever met," she wrote.
Among those women was Madonna, who "chewed gum in a way Donald found unattractive," and Katarina Witt, a German Olympic figure skater and two-time gold medalist who Trump thought "had big calves."
Docreed2003
(16,869 posts)I hope this book is a bestseller, if only to torment the Orange one.
Freedomofspeech
(4,227 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)I would not put a penny into the hands of any Trump by purchasing it. She is out for the money just like the rest of the grifter family.
tanyev
(42,600 posts)No longer would he have to work with a boring writer working on an entire book to get his lists of grievances out in public. He could do it himself, any time a random hateful thought drifted through his consciousness, i.e. 24/7.