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  • Too Much and Never Enough

  • How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man
  • By: Mary L. Trump PhD
  • Narrated by: Mary L. Trump PhD
  • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (1,221 ratings)

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Too Much and Never Enough

By: Mary L. Trump PhD
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Behind Donald Trump’s bombast, bad haircut, and blatant disregard for the conventions of business, politics, and personal behaviour lies a deeply troubled man. Too Much and Never Enough is a riveting memoir by Mary Trump, his niece and a psychologist, which provides an inside account of the bizarre family dynamics that shaped the man.

Too Much and Never Enough highlights how the sins of Donald Trump’s father, Fred Trump, caused lasting emotional damage to the former president. Author Mary Trump reveals details about Donald’s dodgy financial dealings, his compulsion to lie and cheat his way to wealth and power, and his total lack of regret or regard for anyone else.

As you would expect from a trained psychologist, Mary Trump delivers a clinical, comprehensive account of her uncle’s personality disorders. She makes for a convincing and believable narrator as she bears witness to the historical and familial forces that built the Trump persona, while doing her best to tear down his façade.

The author’s intimate knowledge of family secrets and her gift for storytelling make for a revealing portrait of the 45th President of the United States. While some might have expected a self-serving, righteous tone, Mary Trump narrates her own audiobook with a hint of dark humour and detached cool. There’s also a sense of regret for her family’s role in creating such a divisive figure.

Although the Trump family tried to stop its publication, Too Much and Never Enough was released in July 2020 and sold more than 1.3 million copies in the first week. The follow-up, The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal, analyses the impact of Trump’s presidency on the American people, economy and political system.

Publisher's Summary

In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald’s only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world’s health, economic security and social fabric.

Mary Trump spent much of her childhood in her grandparents’ large, imposing house in New York, where Donald and his four siblings grew up. She describes a nightmare of traumas, destructive relationships and a tragic combination of neglect and abuse.

She explains how specific events and general family patterns created the damaged man who currently occupies the Oval Office, including the strange and harmful relationship between Fred Trump and his two oldest sons, Fred Jr. and Donald.

A first-hand witness, Mary brings an incisive wit and unexpected humour to sometimes grim, often confounding family events. She recounts in unsparing detail everything from her uncle Donald’s place in the family spotlight and Ivana’s penchant for regifting to her grandmother’s frequent injuries and illnesses and the appalling way Donald, Fred Trump’s favourite son, dismissed and derided him when he began to succumb to Alzheimer’s.

Numerous pundits, armchair psychologists and journalists have sought to explain Donald Trump’s lethal flaws. Mary Trump has the education, insight and intimate familiarity needed to reveal what makes Donald and the rest of her clan tick. She alone can recount this fascinating, unnerving saga, not just because of her insider’s perspective, but also because she is the only Trump willing to tell the truth about one of the world’s most powerful and dysfunctional families.

©2020 Mary L. Trump, PhD (P)2020 Simon & Schuster UK

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Fascinating... Absolutely Fascinating!

Wow! I finished listening in 2 sittings.

Hearing about three generations of Trumps and how severe the impact of a dysfunctional family can be was fascinating.

The author doesn’t take many cheap shots, but rather gives an in detail history of the different pawns in the chess game of Fred Snr and the impact it has had.

The insights into Donald’s personality are jaw dropping, it puts a lot of what you see and hear into context and gives an understanding of his behaviour.

The one question I continue to have is how does he get away with it?! Besides the fact that he is a failed businessman, a misogynist, liar and a generally poor human being. He has had great success, if nothing else, he runs the free world!

How has all this poor behaviour not caught up with him, the 5 bankruptcies, the lying, the cheating. If there is one skill this man has, its that absolutely nothing sticks. If not to be admired, it has to be respected.
He has the absolute ability to get himself out of dire situations and still end up on top.

The author put it so well “no-one has ever been as good as failing to the top” (sic).

Thanks Mary Trump for writing this book as a type of “call to arms”, it gave me a much better insight as to the why and how Donald Trump behaves.

I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to get a better grasp of what drives the 45th POTUS.

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Such a sad story that is profoundly concerning

Certainly explained so much of the Presidents behaviour, he doesn't care—also his seeming inability to understand complex issues. Mary Trump in telling the family story has provided a great & brave public service.

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Chilling and intense

That clinical psychology background sire comes in handy unpacking this dysfunctional family. Trump is the right balance of broken and blustery to be utterly terrifying a character. The author’s pain at losing her father may be accute, but you still get the sense of being on the 24th table at the family celebration wondering what horror will be normalised next

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Wow!

An insightful and disturbing explanation of Donald Trump. What a brave woman Mary Trump is.

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Insightful and intelligent

I am in awe of the bravery it would have taken to write this.
The story is well written and insightful. Far from a “story” it’s filled with facts that have been well researched. Details, dates and documents are blended with personal moments and memories.
All in all an intelligent and insightful look at the history of the family that created the current nightmare.

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not bad, interesting insight

enjoyed it overall, makes a lot of sense in respect to why he is the way he is, feel sorry for him actually.

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It all makes sense now

He's a spoilt brat without responsibility or care.
Too much money which he never earned but was given by a bitter old father to spite his eldest son.
So the brat grows up without morals or honesty.
Makes sense doesn't it,
How he got to be in charge doesn't.
I expected a whinging wining tell on by a disgruntled neice who wanted to make a buck, but instead a fact filled non emotional account by a qualified observer (who does really well not to shout obscenities each time her mob is shafted by this intercoursing prick and his immediate condoners) with 40 years of subject study to rely on.
Good job Mary

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Mind blowing ! Must read !

You nailed it. !!!!! Couldn’t put my finger on it at how I feel unease every time I see Donald trump’s face, hear him speak and see how he response to situations around him. And this is only on tv ! Watching from Australia. ! This could not have been easy to reveal. Thanks for your honesty and insight.

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What a family!

This was such an interesting account of a dysfunctional family. I am sure there are other families who are just as dysfunctional but because one member of the family is now a President it makes reading this account more interesting. The author’s background in psychology helps make sone sense as to how and why the people in this family have turned out as greedy, self serving humans. An audio book needs to have a strong narrator and Mary Trump made an excellent narrator.

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This explains everything

This explains everything. Mary providrd an insider's view with the analytics of a psychologist.

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