“In the end, there would be no love for Donald at all, just his agonizing thirsting for it”
Mary Trump’s book while not a hagiography, helps explain Trump’s quashing any release of high school or college transcripts if Trump did hire someone to take his SATs. It may be the case that Trump is throwing a distraction that Bob Woodward is a “leaker” with a second book coming out in the Fall.
On p. 72 of her new book, MaryTrump says Donald Trump paid Joe Shapiro — “a smart kid with a reputation for being a good test taker” — to sit in for him during the SAT tests so he could get into Wharton. Donald “paid his buddy well,”
…while some tell-all books don’t deliver much that’s surprising, Mary Trump has some very interesting information to impart, boosted by the fact that as a clinical psychologist, she can offer insights into how President Trump got to be the person he is.
Here are some of the highlights:
She claims Trump hired a smarter boy he knew to take the SAT for him; the high score helped get him into college.
She describes Trump’s father, Fred, as not just domineering but a “sociopath.” He was verbally abusive to his children, especially Fred Jr., insisting that they become “killers” unhindered by emotion. “Fred perverted his son’s perception of the world and damaged his ability to live in it,” she writes.
Her father, Fred Jr., came in for particular contempt from Fred Sr. for being soft. “The lesson [President Trump] learned, at its simplest, was that it was wrong to be like Freddy: Fred didn’t respect his oldest son, so neither would Donald.”
When Fred Sr. died, Mary was told his estate was worth only around $30 million; the portion of that figure that became her inheritance was the subject of the dispute that led to a financial settlement and her NDA. She later gave Fred Sr.’s business records to the New York Times, which publisheda blockbuster storyshowing that the patriarch had transferred over $1 billion to his children (a scheme mostly carried out after Fred Jr.’s death), potentially defrauding the U.S. government of half a billion dollars in tax revenue.
On a trip to Mar-a-Lago when she was 29, Mary came out in a bathing suit and shorts. “Holy s–t, Mary. You’re stacked,” her uncle said to her, with all the grace and sensitivity we’ve come to expect from him.
For a time, Trump hired Mary to ghost-write his book “The Art of the Comeback.” At one point a Trump employee sent her some pages of material Trump wanted to include in the book. “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,” including Madonna and Olympic figure skater Katarina Witt.
At a White House dinner in 2017, the president gestured toward his son Eric’s wife; the two at that point had been together for eight years. “I barely even knew who the f— she was, honestly, but then she gave a great speech during the campaign in Georgia supporting me,” Trump said.
“Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-Un, and Mitch McConnell, all of whom bear more than a passing psychological resemblance to Fred,” Mary writes, “recognized … that Donald’s checkered personal history and his unique personality flaws make him extremely vulnerable to manipulation by smarter, more powerful men.”
Though Mary Trump’s book won’t be out for another week, it has already reached No. 4on Amazon, behind John Bolton’s book and two books about racism.
“Ms. Trump takes issue in the book with the notion that Mr. Trump is a strategic thinker who operates according to specific agendas or organizing principles.”
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Wharton should immediately investigate whether Trump paid someone to take the SAT and obtained his admission by fraud.
If so, the degree should be rescinded.
There is no statute of limitations on plagiarism, and this allegation is even worse. https://t.co/iZ3I6qZR0q— Norm Eisen (@NormEisen) July 7, 2020
— Alexander T. (@alexander_tee_) July 7, 2020
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Mary Trump's allegation that Donald Trump cheated on the SAT to enter a more prestigious college would certainly explain Trump's fixation on Barack Obama's test scores and grades.
“For some of the Trump kids, lying was a way of life … For Donald, lying was primarily a mode of self-aggrandizement meant to convince other people he was better than he actually was.”
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My theory…Woodward was going to out Kavanaugh as an anonymous leaker on Clinton & was talked out of it. Kavanaugh is joining SCOTUS judges tomorrow to affirm Trump’s financials be released. Trump got word wind & is pissed at Kavanaugh and is going to rail he’s a leaker/bad/sad.— Wear Your Damn Mask! (@agraphix) July 7, 2020
