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The Independent
6 days ago
- General
- The Independent
Michael Wolff claims Donald Trump failed to get into Havard
Michael Wolff suggests Trump 's animosity towards Harvard stems from his own rejection from the Ivy League school. Wolff's theory contrasts with claims that Trump's focus on Harvard is due to his son Barron's alleged rejection, which Melania Trump denies. A White House spokesperson dismissed Wolff and The Daily Beast, accusing them of spreading fake news and asserting Trump didn't need Harvard to succeed. Past reports, including claims from Trump's niece Mary Trump and his late sister Maryanne Trump Barry, allege Trump had someone take his college entrance exams. Trump has recently targeted Harvard by removing federal funding and demanding information on international students, citing antisemitism as a factor.
Mint
27-05-2025
- Politics
- Mint
‘Never evolved and that's dangerous': Mary Trump's chilling warning about her uncle
Mary Trump, the estranged niece of US President Donald Trump, launched a scathing personal and political attack on her uncle at the Hay Festival in Wales, declaring he 'has never evolved' and remains 'incapable of forming close relationships.' Speaking during a session on her latest book, Who Could Ever Love You, Mary Trump, daughter of Donald Trump's older brother, Fred Trump Jr, said, she is now estranged from all members of the Trump family except her daughter. The new book continues her long-standing criticism of the president, building on her previous bestsellers Too Much and Never Enough and The Reckoning. According to a report in The Guardian, Mary Trump recounted her brief stint ghostwriting her uncle's second book when she was in her 20s. 'I can't say we got closer, because Donald isn't close with anybody,' she said. 'But working with him for six months in his office, I got a little bit more insight.' Mary Trump, reportedly a trained psychologist, offered a psychological critique of her uncle's temperament. 'He is the only person I've ever met who's never evolved, which is dangerous, by the way,' she said. 'Never choose as your leader somebody who's incapable of evolving – that should be one of the lessons we've learned, for sure,' The Guardian reported. She went further, as per the report, calling Donald Trump 'one of the most provincial people I know,' adding, 'that does not serve us well, at all.' Quoting a passage from her book, Mary described her father's friend's early encounter with Donald: 'He was a cocky, rude teenager, who was intensely jealous of his older brother, Freddie. Donald didn't have any friends, so she felt sorry for him, but whenever they included him, they regretted it.' In 2021, Donald Trump sued Mary Trump for $100 million, accusing her of sharing confidential financial records with The New York Times, the news outlet stated. Reflecting on the lawsuit, Mary was quoted as saying that it sent 'a very clear message to me'. 'But what if everybody capitulates? Then what? Well, then we lose, and that's unacceptable.'
Yahoo
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Trump's Niece Predicted ‘Pathetic' Uncle's Presidency Was ‘Going To Be Unspeakably Awful'
President Donald Trump's niece, Mary Trump, said she was 'devastated' by her 'pathetic' uncle's 2016 presidential victory, noting his 'policies were designed to be cruel.' 'I handled the 2016 election ... badly. I was devastated by it,' Mary Trump told BBC's Samira Ahmed onstage at the Hay Festival in Wales on Tuesday. 'I took it really personally because it felt, once again, like the worst person on the planet is being elevated at the expense of better people.' Mary Trump, who has been estranged from her uncle, appeared at the festival to promote her new book, 'Who Could Ever Love You,' a memoir that dives deeper into her family's relationship with the now-president. Mary Trump told moderator Ahmed that she knew her uncle's presidency was 'going to be unspeakably awful,' citing 'specific policies and the ways in which those policies were designed to be cruel and to have a devastating impact on the most vulnerable people in the country.' 'I think one of the reasons I took 2016 so personally, because it felt like — I guess, 62 million people voted for him — it felt like they were voting to turn America into my family, which is a bad idea. It's just a terrible idea,' the writer said. 'And now that's much, much more pronounced, right?' She went on to criticize members of the Republican Party, saying it became 'very clear early on' that they were going to give her uncle 'a free hand to do whatever he wanted, or for them to do whatever they wanted, because he wasn't going to stop them.' Mary Trump, who is being sued by the president for alleged breach of contract, encouraged his opponents to come together and push back against the administration despite the possibility of retaliation. 'So when you have somebody with that much power who has no compunction about going after individuals, that creates a situation that is designed to instill fear and get people to shut up and stand in line,' Mary Trump said. The president's niece went on to mock those who are afraid of her uncle, but warned of those whom Ahmed referred to as 'radicalized and are ready to carry out acts of violence.' 'I mean, my point of view is that I don't understand people who are afraid of Donald, because he's so pathetic. Like, seriously, like, I would be embarrassed to be afraid of him,' Mary Trump said. 'But it is his supporters, his followers, who have been radicalized, who are willing to lay down their lives for him or commit acts of violence on his behalf, who are the more worrisome group of people.' '60 Minutes' Reporter Rips Into Trump In Viral Commencement Speech Harvard President Calls Trump's Intense Attacks On The School 'Perplexing' NPR And 3 Local Stations Sue Trump Administration Over Funding Cuts
The Guardian
27-05-2025
- Business
- The Guardian
Trump has ‘never evolved, which is dangerous', his niece Mary Trump says
Donald Trump has 'never evolved' and 'isn't close with anybody', according to Mary Trump, the US president's niece and a vocal critic of his business and political career. The daughter of Donald's older brother, Fred Trump Jr (nicknamed Freddie), Mary Trump told the Hay festival in Wales – where she was discussing her latest book about the Trump family, Who Could Ever Love You – that she no longer has relationships with anyone in her family apart from her daughter. She described herself as 'the black sheep of the family', calling her grandfather, Fred Trump, Donald's father, 'literally a sociopath', and adding: 'Cruelty is a theme in my family.' She explained that much of her understanding of her uncle comes from when she was in her 20s and Donald hired her to ghostwrite his second book. 'I can't say we got closer, because Donald isn't close with anybody,' she said, but working with him for six months in his office, she got 'a little bit more insight'. 'He is the only person I've ever met who's never evolved, which is dangerous by the way,' she said. 'Never choose as your leader somebody who's incapable of evolving – that should be one of the lessons we've learned, for sure.' She also described the president as 'one of the most provincial people I know, and that does not serve us well, at all'. Reading from her book, she described the moment a friend of her father's, Anna Maria, met Donald for the first time. 'When she first encountered Donald, he was a cocky, rude teenager, who was intensely jealous of his older brother, Freddie. 'Donald didn't have any friends, so she felt sorry for him, but whenever they included him, they regretted it. Nobody in Freddie's circle could bear to be around this arrogant, self important, humorless kid. 'Over the years, Anna Maria watched Donald devolve into an even more arrogant adult with a widening, cruel streak.' In the book she also recounts Donald throwing a baseball at his young nieces and nephews when he was in his 20s and she was eight years old. Her brother bought her a catcher's mitt for Christmas one year, and she 'realised it was probably to protect me from having every bone in my hand broken from Donald throwing a baseball at me as hard as he could'. Mary also told audiences that after Donald's older sister, Elizabeth, was born, doctors told his mother 'that it would be very dangerous for her to have more children' because of her health issues. 'She did, and the next one was Donald. About which I will say nothing more,' Mary joked. His mother later became very ill, meaning Donald, 'at a very crucial developmental period, did not have his primary caregiver, and the only person left was his dad, the sociopath. So you can imagine how that sort of changed the trajectory of Donald's life'. Mary is a psychologist whose previous books, Too Much and Never Enough and The Reckoning, also involve her uncle. She distanced herself from him around the time he began his first presidential term in 2017. In 2021, the former president sued her for $100m for giving the New York Times information for its investigation into his finances. The lawsuit sends 'a very clear message to me', she said. 'But what if everybody capitulates? Then what? Well, then we lose, and that's unacceptable'. She added that she does not 'understand people who are afraid of Donald, because he's so pathetic. I would be embarrassed to be afraid of him'.
The Independent
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Donald Trump's niece ‘devastated' by uncle's election: ‘I knew it was going to be unspeakably awful'
Donald Trump's niece has said she was 'devastated' by her uncle's rise to power in 2016, and that foresaw his administration being 'unspeakably awful'. Mary Trump, a psychologist and writer, called the current US president 'pathetic', as she warned that he had 'never evolved' from the man she knew growing up as a child. She sat down with BBC journalist Samira Ahmed to discuss the rise of her uncleat the Hay Festival in Wales on Tuesday, which The Independent is once again partnering with. Describing her response to her uncle's first election win, she said: 'I handled the 2016 election badly. I was devastated by it. I took it really personally because I felt like the worst person on the planet was being elevated at the expense of better people. 'How I responded to the election prefigured how I responded to everything else [later in his term] because I knew it was going to be unspeakably awful. 'And I saw the specific policies and the ways in which those policies were designed to be cruel and to have a devastating impact on the most vulnerable people in the country.' She added: 'One of the reasons I took 2016 personally is because it felt like millions had voted to turn America into my family - which is a terrible idea.' She also spoke about the need for opponents to her uncle to organise together: 'My point of view is that I don't understand people who are afraid of Donald, because he's so pathetic. Seriously, I would be embarrassed to be afraid him. 'But it is his supporters and followers - who are willing to lay down their life for him and to make acts of violence on his behalf - who are the more worrisome group of people.' Ms Trump also spoke on Monday evening at the festival, on a panel alongside Baroness Rosie Boycott, Baroness Eluned Morgan, the first minister of Wales and leading US journalist McKay Coppins. Responding to Mr Coppins describing the US president's 'visceral anger' at elites because 'Manhattan's senate aristocracy always kind of laughed at him,' Ms Trump said: 'Donald is one of the most aggrieved people on the planet. 'And he feels like those grievances are legitimate. It goes deeper, but we see how it's playing out on institutions of higher learning. He's very insecure.' Ms Trump went on to say that his grievances went 'even deeper', explaining how he watched his father, Fred Trump, 'dismantle' his 'charming, funny, sensitive' older brother, Fred Trump Jr. 'His fear does stem from having witnessed what happened to my dad. The eldest son, who was supposed to be the heir to the Trump empire, who is deemed unworthy by their father,' she said. Hay Festival, which is spread over 11 days, is set in Hay-on-Wye, the idyllic and picturesque 'Town of Books'. The lineup includes Salman Rushdie, Michael Sheen, Jameela Jamil, and more. The Independent has partnered with the festival once again to host a series of morning panels titled The News Review, where our journalists will explore current affairs with leading figures from politics, science, the arts and comedy every morning.
