Mary Trump: ‘My uncle Donald? A misogynist; his mental state is compromised’
The words of the US President’s granddaughter, a clinical psychologist by profession. Then came the tycoon’s gaffe: he posted a photo of a blonde woman on social media and wrote ‘exceptional daughter’, but she is none of his daughters
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“Donald is a misogynist. He doesn’t respect women; he has issues with them, particularly with strong women.” These were the words of Mary L. Trump – a clinical psychologist and niece of the US President – speaking in an interview with Corriere della Sera about her uncle’s repeated attacks on Prime Minister Meloni.
The words of the US President’s granddaughter, a clinical psychologist by profession
“He is a deeply insecure man. He might be the weakest person I have ever met ,” he went on to explain. “He is losing control of himself and of the narrative he is trying to construct about himself and his competence. It is becoming increasingly obvious that he doesn’t know what he’s doing and is creating disasters from which he cannot extricate himself. And this makes him even more desperate. The only thing he can think of doing is blaming others,” added the psychologist.
As for the American president’s psychological state, according to Mary Trump, ‘it is a black hole of needs’. “The thing Donald wants most in the world is to be loved, but nobody does because he is incapable of loving anyone else. That void cannot be filled, but he keeps trying. And as things get worse, he tries ever more desperately.”
‘As Meloni herself is discovering,’ continues the US President’s niece, ‘Donald always ends up turning on his allies, because they can never be loyal enough. He knows that his war against Iran has been a total disaster for him and for the United States. We saw how isolated he was at the G7; I think that was enough to put him on the defensive. Things will get worse in every respect. He’ll keep lashing out at everyone, and it won’t end well.”
“I think most of what we’re dealing with at the moment is down to his highly compromised emotional and psychological state,” explains the woman. “He has had undiagnosed and untreated psychiatric disorders for decades, which can only get worse over time. He is experiencing severe cognitive decline. His father, my grandfather, had Alzheimer’s. Whether or not this is the case, from a cognitive point of view, something is clearly wrong.”
