Mary Trump spent much of her childhood in her grandparents’ large, imposing house in the heart of Queens, where Donald and his four siblings grew up. She describes a nightmare of traumas, destructive relationships, and a tragic combination of neglect and abuse. She explains how specific events and general family patterns created the damaged man who currently occupies the Oval Office, including the strange and harmful relationship between Fred Trump and his two oldest sons, Fred Jr. and Donald.

This book is promoted as a Donald Trump biography / nonfiction book but in fact it is rather a book about the Trump family history. 

This book makes some good points about how dysfunctional the Trump family might have been according to the author but it comes from a person who wasn’t the biggest fan of her family so everything is to be taken with a grain of salt. 

About 60% of this book is about the author’s father but the advertisement of this book says that it is about Donald Trump. This book felt like the author trying to work through her emotional pain rather than this book being about Donald Trump.

This book started with sort of trying to psychologically diagnose Donald Trump and then in the next chapters until the last it became the Trump family history book of sorts. And the last chapter became sort of the roasting chapter from the author on how stupid, bad, childish and dysfunctional Donald Trump is. This didn’t go well with me personally which explains the low rating due to my political views but this website is neutral when it comes to politics so we won’t discuss any politics on this website.

The writing style was very light and it actually made this book fun, enjoyable, interesting, quick and easy to read. The writing style made this book more likeable in my opinion. 

I Give This Book 2 / 5