I bought Mary Trump’s book
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wrote on 19 Jul 2020, 20:09 last edited by Mik
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I’m half way into the book. Much of it is just trashing her grandfather and pinning him on every failed child in the family. It’s pretty extraordinary the lengths she goes through to tear a family apart even if she uses them as victims. I am wondering why a clinical psychologist would do that. Of course there is nothing so unusual about the grandfather, he is not portrayed as doing any one thing that is cruel enough to land in a tabloid even and could be the family story of literally millions of people.
I will say this, it is not an upbringing you would expect to read about a future President of the US.
wrote on 19 Jul 2020, 21:27 last edited by@Loki said in I bought Mary Trump’s book:
I’m half way into the book. Much of it is just trashing her grandfather and pinning him on every failed child in the family. It’s pretty extraordinary the lengths she goes through to tear a family apart even if she uses them as victims. I am wondering why a clinical psychologist would do that. Of course there is nothing so unusual about the grandfather, he is not portrayed as doing any one thing that is cruel enough to land in a tabloid even and could be the family story of literally millions of people.
I will say this, it is not an upbringing you would expect to read about a future President of the US.
There are simple explanations.
She's nuts....
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wrote on 20 Jul 2020, 01:58 last edited by
@Mik said in I bought Mary Trump’s book:
@Larry said in I bought Mary Trump’s book:
What's with you and those flippin' Filipinos anyway?
I bet you didn't know that one racial slur toward Filipinos is "flips"....
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wrote on 20 Jul 2020, 03:07 last edited by
As a noun perhaps. I used it as a verb. And they are flippin'.
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wrote on 20 Jul 2020, 03:13 last edited by
Go to Bolton’s book. They guy is brilliant. A bit hawkish I admit but razor sharp.
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wrote on 20 Jul 2020, 03:15 last edited by
Yes, I knew you didn't mean it as a slur.
And they are flippin' that's a fact. I flipped for one...
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wrote on 26 Jul 2020, 00:39 last edited by
The exclusion of Mary and her brother from the will is troubling if her account is accurate. It explains a lot.
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wrote on 26 Jul 2020, 02:00 last edited by
As I understand it, her brother and his wife had a child with severe medical problems that would cost lots and lots of money over its lifetime. Mary's father died before his father ( Trump Sr) did. Senior had planned to leave equal shares to his own kids (Donald and his siblings). Had Senior died first, Senior figured that Mary's father would have taken care of the sick grandchild in his will. So when Mary's father died first, Senior decided to change his will to set up a foundation for the purpose of paying all medical bills for everyone in that family group. Donald wouldn't have had anything at all to do with that.
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Go to Bolton’s book. They guy is brilliant. A bit hawkish I admit but razor sharp.
wrote on 26 Jul 2020, 03:20 last edited by@bachophile said in I bought Mary Trump’s book:
Go to Bolton’s book. They guy is brilliant. A bit hawkish I admit but razor sharp.
A worthy read? Beyond just the complaints about his boss that have been discussed in the media?
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wrote on 27 Jul 2020, 16:37 last edited by
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wrote on 27 Jul 2020, 18:12 last edited by
Lol, Mik
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wrote on 16 Oct 2020, 20:37 last edited by
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wrote on 16 Oct 2020, 21:51 last edited by
So much of twitter is just a pipe for adults to not only act like children but make visible to so many people and encourage them to behave the same way.
Why are we so uncivil? Because our technology hardwired it into our daily living. It is our augmented reality.
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wrote on 16 Oct 2020, 22:15 last edited by
Some of us have been convinced a little too strongly that ridicule is man's greatest weapon. Maybe not every sick burn posted by some average asshole on twitter needs to be shared by and with the giggling or offended masses.
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wrote on 16 Oct 2020, 22:18 last edited by
That's his actual niece. He is in fact somebody's crazy uncle.
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wrote on 16 Oct 2020, 22:20 last edited by
I was responding to Loki's more general point about Twitter.
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wrote on 16 Oct 2020, 22:20 last edited by
Ah.
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wrote on 16 Oct 2020, 22:23 last edited by
@jon-nyc said in I bought Mary Trump’s book:
That's his actual niece. He is in fact somebody's crazy uncle.
Or, he's a sane uncle with a crazy-ass niece.
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wrote on 16 Oct 2020, 22:25 last edited by
You're probably half right.
