Trump was a victim of child abuse!

Break out the violins. I told everyone this was going to be a Trumpsplaing book. Or it would never have seen the light of day.

Similar to Bolton's book being a valentine to Mike Pence, who comes off as saintly. These are Trump-commissioned books.

Trump's mental problems are inborn. It's why his parents sent him away for his entire adolescence. He was a disruptive presence in their household.

[quote]Trump was a victim of child abuse!

Good!

AWWWWWWWW, Poor abused little snowflake, hasn't changed himself because Mommy was mean.

A hysterectomy doesn’t knock you out for a year & it didn’t back then either. Half of our grandmothers had hysterectomies because doctors didn’t think there was any reason to keep it if babies weren’t growing in those damn wombs. They’d take the cervix, the Fallopian tubes & the ovaries too, because they were likely to “cause trouble” somewhere down the line.

Women were given hysterectomies for mental illness back in the old days. First, doctors believe uteruses made women hysterical (the word “hysteria’ comes from the greek word for uterus) and second, they didn’t want crazy women having babies, spreading their craziness to another generation. Poor & crazy women didn’t get to take a year off after having a hysterectomy.

If Mary disappeared, my bet is she left Fred because he was beating her.

R1 What a fucking idiot. Psychological problems are not "inborn". There are millions of Trumps out there and most of them had fathers just like themselves and raise kids just as sick. Why do you need to need to demonize someone? He belongs in prison or worse, but there is no need to add petty hatred to the mixture unless you have psychological problems of your own.

Okay so he was born a psychopath, and then was treated poorly by his psychopathic parents. Big revelation.

r4, it sounds like there were complications, not that she was out of commission because of a simple hysterectomy.

The idea that a woman "abandoned" her kids when she was actually ill is pretty shitty, though, and makes me question how accurate Trump's niece's account will be.

NYT review of the book -- biggest revelation is he had someone take his SATs for him.

Which should surprise no one.

Even at the start of Mr. Trump’s campaign, his sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, a retired federal appeals court judge, had deep reservations about his fitness for office. "He's a clown."

Maryanne Trump was particularly baffled by support for her brother among evangelical Christians, according to the book.

“The only time Donald went to church was when the cameras were there,” Ms. Trump quotes her aunt as saying. “It’s mind boggling. But that’s all about his base. He has no principles. None!”

Not exactly earth-shattering news -

"Nothing is ever enough," she writes. "This is far beyond garden-variety narcissism; Donald is not simply weak, his ego is a fragile thing that must be bolstered every moment because he knows deep down that he is nothing of what he claims to be."

Who wasn't?

I'm just glad it's one of his own family members throwing Trump under the bus in a book this time.

That must sting even more.

We, as a society, should do better and lower the risk of more Trumps in this world by treating our infants and children better.

The lack of childhood trauma raises the chances of fewer sociopaths.

Tweeters are offering bounties for the SAT test taker to come forward.

I told you guys Trump was a sociopath.

Anti-social personality disorders are GENETIC and Fred Trump, the crooked Nazi, passed this disease on to Donald, spoiled him filthy rich and insulated Donald from any accountability.

The Trump family has always had criminal values — Donald's grandfather Friedrich started the family fortune whoremongering in Canada with a brothel.

So the Trumps in America have always been mafiarchs. And when they succeed with a lot of money, rich psychopaths become even more dangerous and untouchable.

#LockHimUp

Here's our thread compiling the MEDICAL EXPERTS who also think Donald Trump is a sociopath:

"Donald gestured towards Eric Trump’s wife, his daughter-in-law. 'Lara, there...I barely even knew who the fuck she was, honestly, but then she gave a great speech during the campaign in Georgia supporting me.' The couple had been together for 8 years"

[quote]Tweeters are offering bounties for the SAT test taker to come forward.

Trump probably had him killed years ago.

Big deal. I'm a victim of self-abuse several times a week.

[Quote]I told you guys Trump was a sociopath.

Yes, you alone said that. There has been absolutely no mainstrean discussion of this for four years. You are so smart!

No sympathy for Trump. I don't appreciate living through his frailties and neurosis. GTFO. I want him gone.

Re R16 -

So when he says "I don't know him; I never met him" every time someone from the administration is fired or quits, he's telling the truth?

I’m exhausted.

Good.

R15 I don't think every case of sociopathy is genetic but there certainly can be a biological component. If I recall correctly, Adolf Eichmanns sons went on to plot to attack Jewish schools and synagogues in Argentina.

can he please die?

I hope he rounds it out with a heavy dose of elder abuse too.

According to the AP's Jonathan LaMere when asked about the book Kayleigh McEnany said

[quote] "I haven't seen the book but everything in it is a lie."

"I haven't seen the book..."

Oh poor little pigeon-head. Here's some stale bread.

If only Andrea Yates had been his mother...

[quote]If only Andrea Yates had been his mother...

I am willing to step in r29.

you're the hero we all need Mrs. Ramsey (Patsy if you're nasty)

Zombie Patsy Ramsey for president!

Cry me a river🎻I am going to hold off on buying her book. I want the dirt, not explanations for his shit.

"Trump was a victim of child abuse!"

Not enough.

When that flap of hair in the back blows up you can see the back of his head is totally flat. Nobody held or comforted him when he was an anus mouthed little baby. I don't even care. His mom's rotten crotch was probably riddled with syphilis. Maybe he was born with it?

R27 - yes, I saw her saying that on the NBC evening news.

It was the nuttiest thing someone someone from this administration has said in hours!

anyone have an early PDF copy or know of a link?

Comments from an LA Times article about the book:

Trump’s well-documented lewdness extends to his interactions with his niece, she says. After asking Mary to help ghost write one of his books, he refused to grant an interview but provided her with “an aggrieved compendium of women he had expected to date but who, having refused him, were suddenly the worst, ugliest, and fattest slobs he’d ever met.”

Around that time, Mary went with her uncle to Mar-a-Lago, his Florida resort. She writes that when he spotted her in a bathing suit, the future president looked at his 29-year-old niece “as if he’d never really seen me before” and told her “you’re stacked

R7, abandonment is used in a clinical sense, referring to the child's experience not the adult's behavior. It is a non-judgmental term.

She's not making any excuses for him, she is explaining his pathology, and it's fascinating.

Marla Maples is a whore.

Last night Rachel Maddow read the part about Mary Trump's ghostwriting experience. Apparently, among the women he expected to date: Madonna and Katerina Witt.

^^ But then he thought twice about Madonna because of the way she chewed gum. ^^

[quote] it sounds like there were complications, not that she was out of commission because of a simple hysterectomy.

What complications? My grandmother had an ectopic pregnancy in the 1930s, had emergency surgery, needed 2 blood transfusions, had an infection , had a total hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy. And all of this was done in a hospital that was nothing but a big ole wooden house. She spent about 3 weeks in hospital, came home & stared cooking cleaning, getting the kids off from school & going to her afternoon job because she didn’t have the money to stay home & hire servants to take care of her family...

Good old mama Trump took a vacation. Probably wanted to get away from that filthy pus-bucket husband of hers and “take a cure” for a while.