WASHINGTON – Mary Trump says that if she were in the Oval Office today, she would ask President Donald Trump, her uncle, to step down.
That’s a very different message than the one he relayed to him in April 2017 when he visited the White House.
In an interview with George Stephanopoulos of ABC News to promote her revealing new book on Trump, Mary Trump said that when she was in the Oval Office four months after her uncle’s presidency, she said to him, “Don’t let them catch you down. “
“He already seemed very tense from the pressures,” he said in an interview with “Good Morning America, which aired on Wednesday.” You know, I’ve never been in a situation before where I wasn’t completely shielded from criticism, or responsibility, or the like. And I think Michael Flynn had just been fired, and it hadn’t gone well from the start, in particular. “
“I just remember thinking, it seems tired, it seems, this is not what you signed up for, even if you know what you signed up for. And I thought his response was actually more enlightening than my statement, “Trump continued.” And he said, “They won’t understand me.” And so far, it seems like he’s right. “
When asked what he would say to his uncle if he were in the Oval Office today, he replied, “Quit.”
Mary Trump, who tweeted on the night of the 2016 election that it was one of the worst nights of her life, told ABC News that her uncle is “completely incapable of leading this country, and it is dangerous to allow him to do so.”
During the interview, she also claimed that Trump was raised in a “dysfunctional” family where “money represented” by acts of love.
“I am a Trump. It’s all about money in this family, ”he said, adding that she was different from them. “Money replaced everything else. It was literally the only currency the family trafficked. “
His book, “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man,” was released Tuesday after a judge dismissed a legal challenge from the president’s brother, Robert Trump, for publication.
The book paints a harsh portrait of Trump and the history of his family. Among the allegations, Mary Trump wrote that her uncle had someone else take the SAT for him, which helped him transfer from Fordham University to the University of Pennsylvania, a claim a White House spokesperson called “completely false”.
“People in my family have told me this. I am absolutely sure it is true,” Trump told ABC, adding that she never met him and is not sure if he is still alive. “
“In terms of documentation right now, I can’t prove it, but I can certainly say with one hundred percent certainty that a source very close to Donald told me the story,” he said.
In the book, Trump portrays the President’s father, Fred Trump, as emotionally abusive and as causing lasting harm to both his father, Fred Trump Jr., and the future President, his younger brother.
“The only reason Donald escaped the same fate is because his personality served his father’s purpose. That is what sociopaths do: they co-opt others and use them for their own ends, ruthlessly and efficiently, with no tolerance for dissent or resistance. ” wrote
White House deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews dismissed some of the allegations in the book amid initial news reports about its content.
“The president describes the relationship he had with his father as warm and said that his father was very good to him,” Matthews said in a statement. “He said his father was loving and that he was not that hard on him as a child. Also, the SAT’s absurd accusation is completely false.”
