62 Quotes by Mary L. Trump

For him, there has never been any option but to be positive, to project strength…to do anything else is a death sentence.

His ignorance overwhelms his ability to turn to his advantage. The third national catastrophe to occur on his watch. An effective response would’ve entailed a call for unity, but Donald requires division. It is the only way he knows how to survive. My grandfather ensured that decades ago when he turned his children against each other

Donald could no more advocate for the sick and dying than he could put himself between his father and Freddy. Perhaps most crucially for Donald, there’s no value in empathy, no tangible upside for caring for other people.

He rants about the weakness of others even as he demonstrates his own.

He rants about the weakness of others even as he demonstrates his own, but he can never escape the fact that he is and always will be a terrified little boy.

The more Fred Trump had, the better he was. If he gave something to someone else, that person would be worth more and he less. He would pass that attitude on to Donald in spades.

I had expected the hotel to be vulgar and gilded. It wasn’t.My room was also tasteful. But my name was plastered everywhere, on everything: TRUMP shampoo, TRUMP conditioner, TRUMP slippers, TRUMP shower cap, TRUMP shoe polish, TRUMP sewing kit, and TRUMP bathrobe. I opened the refrigerator, grabbed a split of TRUMP white wine, and poured it down my Trump throat so it could course through my Trump bloodstream and hit the pleasure center of my Trump brain.

She ran the house, but he ruled it.

The house was the most impressive residence on the block.