Mary Trump ABC Interview: Too Much And Never Enough

[PoliTalker]

"GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS OF ABC NEWS: Boil it down. What's the single most important thing you think the country needs to know about your uncle?

MARY TRUMP: He's utterly incapable of leading this country. And it's dangerous to allow him to do so. "

Full one hour interview available here

"STEPHANOPOULOS: Your father got very ill, deathly ill. And you get a phone call from your grandfather?

MARY TRUMP:Yes. Yeah, that's the kind of experience that's shaped as much by what happened after as it is in the moment. And I remember that conversation verbatim. It was so striking at the time, but also given what I now know was the truth while I was having that conversation -- I've never -- I will never forget it.

I had been told to call home. I didn't know why. My mother wasn't home. So I called-- I was told to call my grandparents in that event. And when my grandfather got on the phone, he said-- "Your dad's sick." "Is it serious?" "Oh, he's in the hospital, but it's not serious." "Okay. But, you know, why am-- (LAUGH) why am I calling you at 10:00 on a Saturday night if it's not serious?" I was thinking to myself.

So I said, "Well, is it his heart?" 'Cause he had had open-heart surgery three years earlier at the age of 39. And he said, "Yes, it's his heart." And I said, "Well, then it is serious." "Yes, it's serious. But don't worry about it. Call your mother in the morning." And as I found out two minutes later when I called my mother to find out what was going on, my father had died two hours earlier.

STEPHANOPOULOS: More or less alone?

MARY TRUMP:Completely alone. Obviously with strangers surrounding him, but no family.

STEPHANOPOULOS: You write that his brother went to the movies?

MARY TRUMP: Yes. Yeah, I -- that shocked even me when I heard about it. You know, it was bad enough. It was probably worse honestly that my dad's parents just sat in the library in the house waiting for a phone call. I will never know why they didn't go to the hospital to be with their son who was clearly dying.

So maybe it isn't surprising that Donald didn't think he needed to be there. Maybe that would have looked bad to his father. And maybe sitting around waiting for the phone call was too burdensome. I don't know. But, you know, I've often wondered what movie did he go to see that seemed more compelling than sitting with his dying brother? But I'll never know. "

"STEPHANOPOULOS: And if you were in the Oval Office today, what would you say to him?

MARY TRUMP: "Resign."

STEPHANOPOULOS: Thank you. "

Full ABC News Transcript

[Frank Apisa]

"Resign!"

Yup...that sounds about right.

[PoliTalker]

How cold is a man who goes to the movies as his brother lays dying alone?

[PoliTalker]

STEPHANOPOULOS: It all begins with your grandfather.

MARY TRUMP: Oh, absolutely. Absolutely.

STEPHANOPOULOS: You say he's a sociopath.

MARY TRUMP: Yes.

STEPHANOPOULOS: What do you mean by that?

MARY TRUMP: He had no empathy. He was incredibly driven in a way that turned other people, including his children, his wife, into pawns to be used to his own ends. If somebody could be of service to him, then he would use them. If they couldn't be, he excised them.

And in my father's case, tragically, he was not of use. He was the wrong kind of person. He was the wrong person. He was the wrong son. And my dad never recovered from that. And my grandfather essentially needed to get rid of him.

STEPHANOPOULOS: You say your grandfather destroyed both your father, because he wasn't the person your grandfather wanted him to be.

MARY TRUMP: Uh-huh.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Donald Trump is president of the United States, yet you say your grandfather destroyed him as well.

MARY TRUMP: Yes. He went about it differently because unfortunately for Donald, he could be of use to my grandfather. It wasn't as simple as that, of course. Donald had many years of watching my father be the wrong one. Behaving differently, not being accepted for who he was.

And it's impossible to know who Donald might've been under different circumstances and with different parents. But clearly he learned the lesson from watching his almost 8-year-old [er] brother be punished for being kind, for being generous, for being sensitive, for having interests outside of what my grandfather thought was acceptable. You know, he loved to hang out with his friends. He loved to boat and fish and fly. By the time he graduated from college, he had his private and his professional pilot's licenses.

STEPHANOPOULOS: He wasn't a killer.

MARY TRUMP: He was not a killer. And shockingly, (LAUGH) that was a bad thing. And Donald learned that lesson. And he essentially had to sacrifice whatever goodness there may have been in him once, whatever capacities for experiencing the full range of human emotion to my grandfather.

And on the surface of things, yes, he's been successful, however you want to define that term. I mean, certainly in material terms and in terms of his current position. But at what cost? And I would suggest it was at the cost of him, and sadly, now, all of us.

STEPHANOPOULOS: Who did he learn to become for his dad?

MARY TRUMP: He learned to become the killer you mentioned. The man who needs to succeed at all costs, who recognizes that other people are expendable, who does not need to take responsibility, who will do anything to get attention, financial rewards, and to "win."

[Earl]

How cold is a man who goes to the movies as his brother lays dying alone?

How cold is a person, PoliTalker, who posted this:

PoliTalker:

"Dive, market, DIVE!

Take DT down with you.


02-28-2020, 06:47 AM #5 | Top
PoliTalker


"Sometimes things have to get worse before they can get better.

We're going down.

BZZZZZT! BZZZZZT! BZZZZZT!

Dive! Dive! Dive!"

[volsrock]

"GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS OF ABC NEWS: Boil it down. What's the single most important thing you think the country needs to know about your uncle?

MARY TRUMP: He's utterly incapable of leading this country. And it's dangerous to allow him to do so. "

Full one hour interview available here

"STEPHANOPOULOS: Your father got very ill, deathly ill. And you get a phone call from your grandfather?

MARY TRUMP:Yes. Yeah, that's the kind of experience that's shaped as much by what happened after as it is in the moment. And I remember that conversation verbatim. It was so striking at the time, but also given what I now know was the truth while I was having that conversation -- I've never -- I will never forget it.

I had been told to call home. I didn't know why. My mother wasn't home. So I called-- I was told to call my grandparents in that event. And when my grandfather got on the phone, he said-- "Your dad's sick." "Is it serious?" "Oh, he's in the hospital, but it's not serious." "Okay. But, you know, why am-- (LAUGH) why am I calling you at 10:00 on a Saturday night if it's not serious?" I was thinking to myself.

So I said, "Well, is it his heart?" 'Cause he had had open-heart surgery three years earlier at the age of 39. And he said, "Yes, it's his heart." And I said, "Well, then it is serious." "Yes, it's serious. But don't worry about it. Call your mother in the morning." And as I found out two minutes later when I called my mother to find out what was going on, my father had died two hours earlier.

STEPHANOPOULOS: More or less alone?

MARY TRUMP:Completely alone. Obviously with strangers surrounding him, but no family.

STEPHANOPOULOS: You write that his brother went to the movies?

MARY TRUMP: Yes. Yeah, I -- that shocked even me when I heard about it. You know, it was bad enough. It was probably worse honestly that my dad's parents just sat in the library in the house waiting for a phone call. I will never know why they didn't go to the hospital to be with their son who was clearly dying.

So maybe it isn't surprising that Donald didn't think he needed to be there. Maybe that would have looked bad to his father. And maybe sitting around waiting for the phone call was too burdensome. I don't know. But, you know, I've often wondered what movie did he go to see that seemed more compelling than sitting with his dying brother? But I'll never know. "

"STEPHANOPOULOS: And if you were in the Oval Office today, what would you say to him?

MARY TRUMP: "Resign."

STEPHANOPOULOS: Thank you. "

Full ABC News Transcript

she was talking to a man that watches porn with his children!

[Hawkeye10]

"GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS OF ABC NEWS: Boil it down. What's the single most important thing you think the country needs to know about your uncle?

MARY TRUMP: He's utterly incapable of leading this country. And it's dangerous to allow him to do so. "

Full one hour interview available here

"STEPHANOPOULOS: Your father got very ill, deathly ill. And you get a phone call from your grandfather?

MARY TRUMP:Yes. Yeah, that's the kind of experience that's shaped as much by what happened after as it is in the moment. And I remember that conversation verbatim. It was so striking at the time, but also given what I now know was the truth while I was having that conversation -- I've never -- I will never forget it.

I had been told to call home. I didn't know why. My mother wasn't home. So I called-- I was told to call my grandparents in that event. And when my grandfather got on the phone, he said-- "Your dad's sick." "Is it serious?" "Oh, he's in the hospital, but it's not serious." "Okay. But, you know, why am-- (LAUGH) why am I calling you at 10:00 on a Saturday night if it's not serious?" I was thinking to myself.

So I said, "Well, is it his heart?" 'Cause he had had open-heart surgery three years earlier at the age of 39. And he said, "Yes, it's his heart." And I said, "Well, then it is serious." "Yes, it's serious. But don't worry about it. Call your mother in the morning." And as I found out two minutes later when I called my mother to find out what was going on, my father had died two hours earlier.

STEPHANOPOULOS: More or less alone?

MARY TRUMP:Completely alone. Obviously with strangers surrounding him, but no family.

STEPHANOPOULOS: You write that his brother went to the movies?

MARY TRUMP: Yes. Yeah, I -- that shocked even me when I heard about it. You know, it was bad enough. It was probably worse honestly that my dad's parents just sat in the library in the house waiting for a phone call. I will never know why they didn't go to the hospital to be with their son who was clearly dying.

So maybe it isn't surprising that Donald didn't think he needed to be there. Maybe that would have looked bad to his father. And maybe sitting around waiting for the phone call was too burdensome. I don't know. But, you know, I've often wondered what movie did he go to see that seemed more compelling than sitting with his dying brother? But I'll never know. "

"STEPHANOPOULOS: And if you were in the Oval Office today, what would you say to him?

MARY TRUMP: "Resign."

STEPHANOPOULOS: Thank you. "

Full ABC News Transcript

Your father did not measure up to the Trump standard nor do you...the inferior pay the toll for being inferior.....Justice Demands!

[Eagle_Eye]

"GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS OF ABC NEWS: Boil it down. What's the single most important thing you think the country needs to know about your uncle?

MARY TRUMP: He's utterly incapable of leading this country. And it's dangerous to allow him to do so. "

Full one hour interview available here

"STEPHANOPOULOS: Your father got very ill, deathly ill. And you get a phone call from your grandfather?

MARY TRUMP:Yes. Yeah, that's the kind of experience that's shaped as much by what happened after as it is in the moment. And I remember that conversation verbatim. It was so striking at the time, but also given what I now know was the truth while I was having that conversation -- I've never -- I will never forget it.

I had been told to call home. I didn't know why. My mother wasn't home. So I called-- I was told to call my grandparents in that event. And when my grandfather got on the phone, he said-- "Your dad's sick." "Is it serious?" "Oh, he's in the hospital, but it's not serious." "Okay. But, you know, why am-- (LAUGH) why am I calling you at 10:00 on a Saturday night if it's not serious?" I was thinking to myself.

So I said, "Well, is it his heart?" 'Cause he had had open-heart surgery three years earlier at the age of 39. And he said, "Yes, it's his heart." And I said, "Well, then it is serious." "Yes, it's serious. But don't worry about it. Call your mother in the morning." And as I found out two minutes later when I called my mother to find out what was going on, my father had died two hours earlier.

STEPHANOPOULOS: More or less alone?

MARY TRUMP:Completely alone. Obviously with strangers surrounding him, but no family.

STEPHANOPOULOS: You write that his brother went to the movies?

MARY TRUMP: Yes. Yeah, I -- that shocked even me when I heard about it. You know, it was bad enough. It was probably worse honestly that my dad's parents just sat in the library in the house waiting for a phone call. I will never know why they didn't go to the hospital to be with their son who was clearly dying.

So maybe it isn't surprising that Donald didn't think he needed to be there. Maybe that would have looked bad to his father. And maybe sitting around waiting for the phone call was too burdensome. I don't know. But, you know, I've often wondered what movie did he go to see that seemed more compelling than sitting with his dying brother? But I'll never know. "

"STEPHANOPOULOS: And if you were in the Oval Office today, what would you say to him?

MARY TRUMP: "Resign."

STEPHANOPOULOS: Thank you. "

Full ABC News Transcript

A dysfunctional family produces dysfunctional children.

[PoliTalker]

Greed makes happiness impossible because the victim of greed is tormented by a never-ending desire for more.

It doesn't matter how much is accumulated, it is never enough.

[Hawkeye10]

A dysfunctional family produces dysfunctional children.

Dysfunctional people tend to fail to comprehend reality.

[PoliTalker]

DT is a very unhappy person.

[ThatOwlWoman]

This book sounds like a how-NOT-to-raise a child manual. Still #1 on the best seller list at Amazon, as well.

https://www.amazon.com/Too-Much-Neve...468/ref=sr_1_2

[Hawkeye10]

DT is a very unhappy person.

Liar...Don has more fun than almost everyone else.

[Eagle_Eye]

DT is a very unhappy person.

His family history certainly explains his actions and EGO.

[Hawkeye10]

DT is a very unhappy person.

Liar...Don has more fun than almost everyone else.