Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

Mary L. Trump

Jul 2020 · Simon and Schuster · Narrated by Mary L. Trump

About this audiobook

In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald’s only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world’s health, economic security, and social fabric.

Mary Trump spent much of her childhood in her grandparents’ large, imposing house in the heart of Queens, New York, where Donald and his four siblings grew up. She describes a nightmare of traumas, destructive relationships, and a tragic combination of neglect and abuse. She explains how specific events and general family patterns created the damaged man who occupied the Oval Office, including the strange and harmful relationship between Fred Trump and his two oldest sons, Fred Jr. and Donald.

A firsthand witness to countless holiday meals and interactions, Mary brings an incisive wit and unexpected humor to sometimes grim, often confounding family events. She recounts in unsparing detail everything from her uncle Donald’s place in the family spotlight and Ivana’s penchant for regifting to her grandmother’s frequent injuries and illnesses and the appalling way Donald, Fred Trump’s favorite son, dismissed and derided him when he began to succumb to Alzheimer’s.

Numerous pundits, armchair psychologists, and journalists have sought to parse Donald J. Trump’s lethal flaws. Mary L. Trump has the education, insight, and intimate familiarity needed to reveal what makes Donald, and the rest of her clan, tick. She alone can recount this fascinating, unnerving saga, not just because of her insider’s perspective but also because she is the only Trump willing to tell the truth about one of the world’s most powerful and dysfunctional families.

Ratings and reviews

I really have a need to read this books. Just the fact that he's fighting so hard in court to stop its release,now I'm even more curious to know every juicy,fall off the bone detais. Such a sad tiny,incompetent,orange-makeup wearing, vile,disgusting,monsterous, pathetic,insecure,criminal,thug, clown of a so called man,occupant of the white house,who has disrespected the office and the American people everyday since he's been in office . Be gone trump,I genuinely hate this orange thing.

I started reading the book with an open mind and keeping in consideration that the author supposedly really new the subject (D. Trump). Very disappointing after all, she knew too little about DJ Trump Persona and who he really became. I will say that the book after all tells more about her frustration and how she manipulated their family correlation to shine.

I think u are the jealous pathetic one that’s gotta write stuff about your own family to profit would not read past the first couple pages. Yea ok the country is in trouble cause if him and everything else it’s his fault. Just another idiot that makes it even worse ti say your his niece

About the author

Mary L. Trump holds a PhD from the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies and taught graduate courses in trauma, psychopathology, and developmental psychology. She lives with her daughter in New York.