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Mary Trump, Donald Trump’s niece, has said America is “in the horrible place we are” because family members, including the president, view the disease as “a display of inexcusable weakness,” whether it be in themselves or others.
Speaking on NPR’s Fresh Air, Mary Trump, who recently published the revealing book Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, said: “That’s why we’re in the horrible place we are, because it can’t admitting the weakness of being sick or that other people are sick. “
She spoke as the US President was criticized by doctors for unnecessarily exposing his staff and security team to the coronavirus by taking a car tour to greet supporters outside the Walter Reed Military Medical Center, where is being treated for the disease.
Mary Trump is suing the president and two of her brothers, claiming they swindled millions of dollars from her over several decades while being driven out of the family business.
On Sunday, Mary Trump said that both the president and her father, Fred Trump, believed the disease was “unacceptable.” “Which sounds incredibly cruel, but turns out to be true,” he said.
She recounted how this belief affected her grandmother, who had osteoporosis, saying that she would return from the hospital and need care and physical therapy, but that her grandfather, Fred Trump, “could not tolerate it. You know, I’d be in the room with her. And as soon as she started to show that she was in physical pain, he would say ‘everything is fine, right? Everything is great. ‘ And she would leave the room. “
When asked how the reaction to the illness was expressed, Mary Trump said the attitude was driven by the fact that her grandfather “was never ill. Forever.”
Fred Trump’s adherence to the philosophies of Norman Vincent Peale, an American minister and motivational speaker who was close to the Trump family and officiated at Trump’s first marriage, was taken to “such an extreme level that it was toxic because it left no room for the expressions”. of what he considered negativity of any kind, you know, sadness, despair, being physically ill, “said Mary Trump.
Friedrich Trump, Mary Trump’s great-grandfather and the president’s grandfather, died of Spanish flu in the 1918 pandemic, something Mary Trump said her uncle “seems to have forgotten.”
