Mary L. Trump

Mary Lea Trump (born May 3, 1965)[2] is an American psychologist, businessperson, and author. She is a niece of President Donald J. Trump. Her 2020 book about him and the family, Too Much and Never Enough, sold nearly one million copies on the day of its release.

Mary L. Trump
Born
Mary Lea Trump

(1965-05-03) May 3, 1965
New York City
Alma materTufts University (BA)
Columbia University (MA)
Adelphi University (PhD)
OccupationPsychologist, businessperson, author
Known forToo Much and Never Enough (2020)
Political partyDemocratic[1]
Children1
Parents
RelativesTrump family

Early life and education

Mary Lea Trump was born in May 1965 to flight attendant Linda Lee Clapp and Fred Trump Jr., a commercial jet pilot with Trans World Airlines. Her older brother is Frederick Trump III.[3][4] Trump graduated from the Ethel Walker School in 1983. She studied English literature at Tufts University, earned a master's degree in English literature at Columbia University, for which she studied the works of William Faulkner and his dysfunctional fictional Compson family,[5][6][7] and holds a PhD in clinical psychology from the Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies[8] at Adelphi University.[4][9][10]

Career

Trump worked for one year at the Manhattan Psychiatric Center while working on her PhD research.[8] Trump is a contributor to the book Diagnosis: Schizophrenia, published by Columbia University Press in 2002.[11] She has taught graduate courses in developmental psychology, trauma, and psychopathology.[7] She is the founder and chief executive officer of The Trump Coaching Group, a life coaching company, and has also owned and operated a number of small businesses in the Northeast.[1]

Personal life

Trump's father died in 1981 at age 42 from a heart attack caused by alcoholism; she was sixteen.[12] He had developed an enlarged heart and had undergone surgical procedures before he finally succumbed to the disease. Trump was at school, watching a film in the auditorium with other kids when a school teacher pulled her aside and made her call home. She found out after a series of phone calls that her father had died.[8] In her book, Trump relates a time when her grandmother Mary Anne MacLeod Trump referred to Elton John as a faggot, and Trump decided not to come out as gay and tell her that she was going to marry a woman, with whom she would later raise a daughter.[13][14] She has since divorced, and lives on Long Island, New York, with her daughter.[7][15] Trump's family includes a brother Fritz and his wife Lisa.[8]

Politics

Trump supported Hillary Clinton during the 2016 presidential election.[1] On July 15, 2020, she said in an ABC News interview conducted by George Stephanopoulos that Donald Trump should resign. Mary said that he is "utterly incapable of leading this country, and it's dangerous to allow him to do so."[16] In a July 22, 2020 interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, when asked for her professional opinions, Mary stated that Donald Trump exhibits sociopathic tendencies but not at a high-functioning level like his father, was institutionally insulated from responsibilities, and is never held accountable for his actions.[17]

Conflicts within the Trump family
See also: Family of Donald Trump

When Fred Trump Sr. died in 1999 from Alzheimer's disease, Mary and her brother Fred III contested their grandfather's will.[5][18][19] Fred Sr.'s will left the bulk of his estate, in equal shares, to his children.[18][20] His grandchildren were each left $200,000. When Mary's father predeceased him, Fred Sr.'s lawyers had recommended amending his will, to leave Mary and her brother, Fred III, larger shares than the grandchildren with living parents. They anticipated Fred Sr.'s will would be challenged if it were not amended by descendants who would argue his intent was that each child would eventually leave a portion of his or her share of the estate to his or her own descendants.

Shortly after Fred Sr.'s death, Mary's sister-in-law gave birth to a son with a rare and debilitating medical condition—one that would require a lifetime of very expensive medical care.[18] Fred Sr. had established a foundation that paid the medical expenses of his family. After Mary and Fred III had filed suit against Donald Trump and two of his three living siblings,[21] Mary and Fred III were advised that the medical foundation would no longer pay for their medical expenses. The lawsuit was settled in 2001.[21] The final settlement of the dispute over sharing Fred Sr.'s estate did not award them the share their father would have inherited, if he had been alive when Fred Sr. died. It did restore coverage of their family's medical expenses.

The 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting was awarded to David Barstow, Susanne Craig and Russ Buettner of The New York Times for "an exhaustive 18-month investigation of Donald Trump's finances that debunked his statements of self-made wealth and revealed a business empire riddled with tax dodges."[22] Mary was reportedly a key source of information for that study,[20] having come into possession of Donald's tax documents during the discovery process in the dispute over her grandfather's estate.[23]

Upon the announcement of Mary's book Too Much and Never Enough in June 2020, her uncle Robert S. Trump attempted to block its release, stating that she signed a non-disclosure agreement during the 1999 lawsuit.[24][5][18] The filing of a temporary restraining order against Mary was dismissed by a New York court for a lack of jurisdiction, and the book was published on July 14, 2020.[25][26]

Too Much and Never Enough
Main article: Too Much and Never Enough

Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man is a tell-all book written by Trump published on July 14, 2020, by Simon & Schuster. According to Trump's note at the beginning of the book, all accounts in the book come either from her own memory or from recorded conversations with family, friends and others. Other sources are legal, financial and family documents and email correspondence as well as the New York Times investigative article done by David Barstow, Susanne Craig.[7] The book details how the author was the anonymous source who revealed Trump family tax returns to The New York Times; the reporting won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize.[27] A legal battle over whether the book could be published was waged in New York's judicial system, with an appellate judge allowing Simon & Schuster to publish the book.[26] The book sold close to one million copies on its first day of sales.[28]

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