Mary Trump on her uncle, A Total Fucking Loser
I’ve said this before, but under the circumstances, I think it’s worth repeating. Donald and I have basically one thing in common: we’re absolutely terrible with money. The difference in that one point of commonality, however, is that I have no problem admitting it. I do not have to endanger the global economy in order to prove that I’m good at something at which I am objectively terrible.
It makes sense, of course, that Donald and I would both be very bad with money considering the awful and tragically important position it had in our awful and tragic family, but even within that context, he and I came by our dysfunction very differently.
Donald is bad with money (his own and other people’s) because his father threw so much of it at him over the course of his entire childhood and adulthood—without condition—that he never had to learn how to deal with it properly. (It probably goes without saying that I had the opposite problem with my grandfather.)
Having been chosen as my grandfather’s eventual heir, however, Donald did learn a thing or two about corruption, grey-hat business tactics, and cheating.
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