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Too Much and Never Enough | Mary L. Trump

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Title: Too Much and Never Enough Author: Mary L. Trump This book isn't particularly good and lacks any real revelations about Donald Trump. We are told what we already knew--that Fred Trump, Donald Trump's father, was basically the worst. He was the source of the abhorrent behavior that we see on a near daily basis. The author tells us that the family would sit around the dinner table and, for instance, talk about how nasty and fat women were. The way she tells it, she seems to have empathy for Donald. We are all, after all, products of our parents, but she fails to place responsibility solely on the shoulders of Donald. We all have the responsibility to better ourselves; we can only blame our parents to a point. To me, it felt like this book was retaliation for being disinherited. The author tells us how, after her father's death, she and her brother were removed from her grandfather's will and denied her father's share of her grandfather's estate. That said, t...