Mary Trump thinks Donald Trump should step down as president of the United States. During an exclusive interview (watch part one above) with George Stephanopoulos, the ABC News host asked “If you’re in the Oval Office today, what would you say to him?” Mary Trump’s one-word response was “resign.” This was the first interview the president’s niece has given since the release of her tell-all book “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.” Mary Trump said:
“I saw firsthand what focusing on the wrong things, elevating the wrong people can do – the collateral damage that can be created by allowing somebody to live their lives without accountability. And it is striking to see that continuing now on a much grander scale.”
She talks more about this in her book, writing: “On November 9, 2016, my despair was triggered in part by the certainty that Donald’s cruelty and incompetence would get people killed.” But she says she “couldn’t have foreseen that a global pandemic would present itself, allowing him to display his grotesque indifference to the lives of other people.”
“As the pandemic moved into its third, fourth month and the death toll continued to rise into the tens of thousands, the press started to comment on Donald’s lack of empathy for those who have died and the families they leave behind. The simple fact is that Donald is fundamentally incapable of acknowledging the suffering of others. Telling the stories of those lost would bore him.”
She spoke more about this in the second part of the interview.
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Donald Trump continues to stay silent on the book and ABC says his administration isn’t commenting on the contents either:
The White House on Tuesday referred ABC News to its previous statements about the book. The White House previously said: “Mary Trump and her book’s publisher may claim to be acting in the public interest, but this book is clearly in the author’s own financial self-interest.”
“President Trump has been in office for over three years working on behalf of the American people – why speak out now? The President describes the relationship he had with his father as warm and said his father was very good to him. He said his father was loving and not at all hard on him as a child,” the statement continued.
