Too Much and Never Enough

During the past few months I have seen Mary L.Trump, clinical psychologist and niece of Donald Trump, interviewed about her uncle's latest display of appalling behaviour plus lack of understanding of the needs of the people he was supposed to lead. I was therefore interested to read her assessment of her uncle in Too Much and Never Enough: How my family created the world's most dangerous man. 

Fred Trump ruled the Trump family - he held the purse strings. His parents had migrated to the USA from Germany and his mother helped Fred continue and develop the family real estate business. Fred and his wife had five children - three sons and two daughters. The author is the daughter of the eldest son who did not meet his father's expectations. Donald, the second son, on the other hand learned how to impress his father and became the favoured son.

The Trump family is definitely a disfunctional family and the author describes how this family environment resulted in developing the character of the man who unfortunately became president of the USA and still has many followers. Much of the book reveals how Donald Trump conducted his business interests (not very successfully) and the division of the family fortune when her grandfather died. This story is far from over.