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A review by sistermagpie
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump
4.0
I don't read a lot of non-fiction about politics, but the draw of reading about this disfunctional family was too much for me. And it is a disfunctional family. Trump is the worst thing it produced, but the family itself is just bizarre. A group of people that don't like each other at all, as far as I can tell, yet participate in joyless rituals with each other upon pain of serious punishment. But even that doesn't particularly get you anything because when money is to be had, for example, when the one person in the family who made actual money dies, they'll grab what they want and anyone who objects will become an enemy who must punished. Punished, for instance, by having their medical insurance they were given for life at birth taken away right after their infant child has developed a serious medical disorder.
I can understand how frustrating it must be for Mary Trump to hear people, especially the press in general, insist on covering her uncle as if he's got some strategy when he's incapable of thinking past pretending he's the best for whatever moment he's in, refusing to clearly state things like how pathetically easy it is or him to be manipulated by the most minimally competent person. I'm sure plenty will accuse her of just being greedy (after all, she wanted the same share of money she didn't make as the rest of the people in the family who didn't make the money) but there's something satisfying in her having now probably made far more money than Donald ever did, at least before he became president.
I can understand how frustrating it must be for Mary Trump to hear people, especially the press in general, insist on covering her uncle as if he's got some strategy when he's incapable of thinking past pretending he's the best for whatever moment he's in, refusing to clearly state things like how pathetically easy it is or him to be manipulated by the most minimally competent person. I'm sure plenty will accuse her of just being greedy (after all, she wanted the same share of money she didn't make as the rest of the people in the family who didn't make the money) but there's something satisfying in her having now probably made far more money than Donald ever did, at least before he became president.