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A review by nickedkins
Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump
3.0
This book makes some plausible arguments about the origins of Donald Trump's extremely odd personality. Mary Trump is one of the best-placed people on the planet to make these arguments.
However, there was a large blind spot regarding the behaviour of the rest of the Trump family, which I found distracting. When Fred Trump excludes Mary Trump's branch of the family from his will, she portrays it as a great injustice that the roughly $1 billion (largely ill-gotten) is to be split between four families instead of five. She complains about this for what felt like half an hour of the audiobook. She comes close to a realisation when she mocks other family members for feeling entitled to money they didn't earn, but she doesn't appear to have fully absorbed this idea.
100% inheritance tax, please.
However, there was a large blind spot regarding the behaviour of the rest of the Trump family, which I found distracting. When Fred Trump excludes Mary Trump's branch of the family from his will, she portrays it as a great injustice that the roughly $1 billion (largely ill-gotten) is to be split between four families instead of five. She complains about this for what felt like half an hour of the audiobook. She comes close to a realisation when she mocks other family members for feeling entitled to money they didn't earn, but she doesn't appear to have fully absorbed this idea.
100% inheritance tax, please.