A new tell-all book about President Donald Trump by his niece Mary Trump claims that Donald Trump’s temperament and worldview were shaped by a series of traumas inflicted on him by his family. According to the book, a copy of which was obtained by the Washington Post, Trump’s traumatic upbringing was worsened by his “daunting” father, Fred Trump Sr., whose approval Donald Trump sought throughout his life.

Mary Trump’s book, “Too Much and Never Enough,” is set for release on July 14 and purports to explore how the Trump family’s toxicity warped the mind of Donald Trump from his youth. Members of the family, including the president's brother, Robert Trump, have gone to court to block the book’s release, claiming that it violates a non-disclosure agreement signed by Mary Trump in the early 2000s.

Mary Trump notes that Fred Trump Sr. destroyed Donald Trump's “ability to develop and experience the entire spectrum of human emotion.” She believes that his distinct personality formed the way it did because it “served his father’s purpose” and helped him escape the “scorn and ridicule” that his older brother and her father, Fred Trump Jr., faced.

“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,” Mary Trump writes in the book.

Lying became a tool employed by all of Fred Trump Sr.’s children, for different reasons. Mary Trump claims that Donald Trump used lying as a method “of self-aggrandization” to try and make himself seem superior in the eyes of others.

Fred Jr., meanwhile, lied as a means of protection, to hide a “natural sense of humor, sense of adventure, and sensitivity,” which would have drawn the ire of his domineering father. Fred Trump Sr. would allegedly mock his oldest son for apologizing after being taken to task for his shortcomings.

“Fred [Sr.] hated it when his oldest son screwed up or failed to intuit what was required of him,” Mary Trump wrote. “But he hated it even more then, after being taken to task, Freddy [Fred Jr.] apologized.”

Mary Trump, a clinical psychologist, concludes that Trump’s personality and worldview were formed because “it was wrong to be like Freddy.”

“Fred Sr. didn’t respect his oldest son, so neither would Donald,” she wrote.

The ruling allows publisher Simon & Schuster to print and distribute the 240-page book by Mary Trump, who dubs the US president 'the world's most dangerous man'
The ruling allows publisher Simon & Schuster to print and distribute the 240-page book by Mary Trump, who dubs the US president 'the world's most dangerous man' AFP / MANDEL NGAN
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