Who is Mary Trump? Meet the woman who has written a tell-all book about Donald Trump, the ‘world’s most dangerous man’
- Mary Trump is the daughter of Fred Trump Jnr, the US president’s older brother and once-heir apparent to the Trump family’s real-estate business
- Her father died young, and she and her brother publicly contested their grandfather’s will, a case that was settled with her signing a non-disclosure agreement.
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US President Donald Trump’s niece, Mary Trump, has written a book, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man. It is set to bepublished on July 14
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Publisher Simon & Schuster said the book would be a “revelatory, authoritative portrait ofDonald J. Trumpand the toxic family that made him”.
Mary Trump is known to have been on bad terms with her uncle Donald for at least 20 years, ever since they were involved in a public legal battle against each other. She has largely stayed out of the limelight since.
According to state records she is a registered Democrat, and an unverified Twitter account bearing her name includes tweets supportive ofHillary Clinton.
Mary Trump has written a book, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, about the US president. Photo: Mary L. Trump/TwitterMembers of the Trump family are trying to block the release of her book, but a New York judge recently granted Simon & Schuster permission to release it. However, there is still a temporary injunction on Mary Trump herself.Here’s everything we know about the president’s niece, the latest updates about her book, and what she reportedly says in it.
Mary is the daughter of Fred Trump Jnr the president’s older brother and once-heir apparent to the Trump family’s real-estate business. Her mother is Linda Clapp, a flight attendant whom “Freddy” met while training to be a pilot.Fred Trump Jnr and Clapp married in 1962, and had two children: Fred Trump III and Mary.
The cover of Mary Trump’s book.Both Mary and her brother were named after their paternal grandparents, Fred Trump Snr and his Scottish immigrant wife, Mary Anne MacLeod Trump.
Fred Trump Jnr and Clapp’s marriage was short-lived. They divorced in 1970 after eight years of marriage, as Freddy’s alcoholism got more and more out of control.
Freddy died at the age of 42 in 1981 because of complications from alcoholism. He was considered a black sheep of the family for not taking an interest in the family’s real-estate business.
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When Fred Trump Snr died in 1999, Mary Trump and her brother contested his will, which left them a substantially smaller inheritance than the other Trump grandchildren. The issue at stake was how Fred Snr’s wealth was dispersed.
Most of his fortune was split between his four surviving children. But Mary and Fred III believed they deserved what would have been their father’s share of the inheritance.
Donald Trump responded by cutting them from off the family’s medical insurance plan. It was a tough blow for Fred III, who had just welcomed a baby with serious health issues.
A photo of the Trump siblings, from left to right: Robert, Elizabeth, Fred, Donald and Maryanne. Photo: Trump CampaignMary Trump bashed the decision to cut the medical benefits in an interview with the New York Daily News in December 2000, saying her “aunt and uncles should be ashamed of themselves”.
Mary Trump was referring to Donald Trump, Robert Trump and Maryanne Trump Barry, who had been named executors of their father’s estate.
In court documents, Maryanne Trump Barry called Mary and Fred III “absentee grandchildren” who only saw their grandparents on holidays. But in her book, Mary Trump says she spent “much of her childhood” at her grandparents’ house in Queens.
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