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Mary L. Trump

Friday 26th of April 2024

2020 Presidential election [W]hile it's true that we snatched democracy from the jaws of autocracy, there is still a gun pointed at democracy's head. Mary Trump, The Reckoning  © 2021 Kwiple.com
Asslickers It was easier to go along with the ride. John Kelly, at least for a while, and Mick Mulvaney, without any reservations at all, would behave the same way [kowtowing like Trump's siblings throughout his life] — until they were ousted for not being sufficiently “loyal.” That's how it always works with sycophants. First they remain silent no matter what outrages are committed; then they make themselves complicit by not acting. Ultimately, they find they are expendable when Donald needs a scapegoat. Mary Trump, Too Much and Never Enough  © 2020 Kwiple.com
Asslickers  With millions of lives at stake, he [Trump] takes accusations about the federal government's failure to provide ventila- tors personally, threatening to withhold funding and lifesaving equipment from states whose governors don't pay sufficient homage to him. That doesn't surprise me. The deafening silence in response to such a display of sociopathic disregard for human life or the consequences for one's actions, on the other hand, fills me with despair and reminds me that Donald isn't really the problem at all. Mary Trump, Too Much and Never Enough  © 2020 Kwiple.com
Congress As such, white Protestants are overrepresented in government, and are disproportionately represented in Congress. Currently 77 percent of Congress is made up of whites, compared with 60 percent of the general population, and 55 percent of Congress identify as some kind of Protestant, compared with 43 percent nationally. Mary Trump, The Reckoning  [2021] © 2021 Kwiple.com
COVID-19 coronavirus … almost three hundred thousand Americans had died by Election Day as a direct result of Donald's willfully malicious inaction. But for him, we would not have become  so divided. But for him, a simple lifesaving maneuver like wearing a mask would not have become politicized. But for him, we would not have suffered a mass casualty event in this country every day, for month after month after month. Mary Trump, The Reckoning  © 2021 Kwiple.com
COVID-19 coronavirus The simple fact is that Donald is fundamentally incapable of acknowledging the suffering of others. Telling the stories of those we've lost would bore  him Mary Trump, Too Much and Never Enough  © 2020 Kwiple.com
A death in the family For the most part, in ways both oblique and and direct, the emphasis was on my grandfather's material success, his “killer” instinct, and his talent for saving a buck. Donald was the only one  to deviate from the script. In a cringe-inducing turn, his eulogy de- volved into a paean to his own greatness. It was so embarrassing that Maryanne [Trump's older sister] later told her son not to allow any of her siblings to speak at her funeral. Mary Trump, recalling the eulogy Donald Trump delivered at his father's funeral © 2020 Kwiple.com
Families Someone once compared the Trumps to the Borgias. But at least the Borgias supported the arts. Mary Trump, Financial Times, August 7, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Political inequality The fifty Republican Senators represent  a population that comprises approximately forty-one million fewer citizens than the Democrats represent. Mary Trump, The Reckoning  [2021] © 2021 Kwiple.com
Power The more power you have, the fewer consequences you face. Mary Trump, The Reckoning  © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot It's not that they like him, or care if he goes to jail. They are getting so much power out of this and they don't want it to stop. William Barr, Mike Pompeo and Mitch McConnell portrayed by Mary Trump, Financial Times, August 7, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The mastermind of the damage [to democratic norms], Mitch McConnell will come to be considered one of the greatest traitors to this country since Robert E.Lee, with this difference — McConnell has been trying to take us down from within. Mitch McConnell portrayed by Mary Trump in The Reckoning  © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Donald today is much as he was at three years old:  incapable of growing, learning, or evolving, unable to regulate his emotions, moderate his responses, or take in and synthesize information. Donald Trump portrayed by Mary Trump in Too Much and Never Enough  [2020] © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Donald was the Republican Party without the pretense. Donald Trump portrayed by Mary Trump in The Reckoning  © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Donald was to my grandfather  what the border wall has been for Donald: a vanity project funded at the expense of more worthy pursuits. Donald Trump portrayed by Mary Trump in Too Much and Never Enough  © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Donald's ego has been and is a fragile and inadequte barrier between him and the real world, which, thanks to his father's money and power, he never had to negotiate by himself. Donald has always needed to perpetuate the fiction my gandfather started that he is strong, smart, and otherwise extraordinary, because facing the truth — that he is none of those things — is too terrifying for him to contemplate. Donald Trump portrayed by Mary Trump in Too Much and Never Enough  © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Donald's pathologies are so complex and his behaviors so often inexplicable that coming up with an accurate and comprehensive diagnosis would require a full battery of psychological and neuropsychological tests that he'll never sit for. At this point, we can't evaluate his day-to-day functioning because he is, in the West Wing, essentally institutionalized. Donald Trump portrayed by Mary Trump in Too Much and Never Enough  [2020] © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot He can never escape the fact that he is and always will be a terrified little boy. Donald Trump portrayed by Mary Trump in Too Much and Never Enough  © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot I think he is a fucking loser. Donald Trump portrayed by Mary Trump, after being sued for helping the New York Times report on his long history of tax dodging © 2021 Kwiple.com
Snapshot The only thing that matters to him is saving his own skin. He is the kind of man who, if he feels he is going down, he's going to take all of us down with him. Donald Trump portrayed by Mary Trump, Financial Times, August 7, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot It's like a weird bid to prove how tough they are, and I mean, how tough is it to kill an elephant? I don't think it's very difficult when you have a bazooka. Donald Trump, Jr., and Eric Trump,  mucho macho big-game hunters, portrayed by Mary Trump, Financial Times, August 7, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
Snapshot Holy shit, Mary. You're stacked. Mary L. Trump, then aged 29, portrayed by her uncle Donald, then aged 48 © 2019 Kwiple.com
Snapshot They identify with the fact that he gets away with everything. Trump's supporters portrayed by Mary Trump © 2023 Kwiple.com
State of the union Our current trauma is the culmination of our history, the logical outcome of the stories we tell ourselves, the myths we embrace, and the lies we perpetuate. Mary Trump, The Reckoning  [2021] © 2021 Kwiple.com
 
Supreme Court Barack Obama, who won the popular vote by 9.5 million votes in 2008 and five million in 2012 and served eight years in office, was able to appoint only two Supreme Court justices. Donald, who lost  the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by almost three million votes and was in office only four years (and impeached twice), was able to appoint three. Mary Trump, The Reckoning  © 2021 Kwiple.com