Donald Trump’s psychologist niece shares the “origin story” for his thin skin

In a series of videos posted to social media, out clinical psychologist Mary Trump discussed her uncle Donald’s issues with food, his thin skin, and the origin of both in his childhood.

She said the origin occurred when Donald Trump was five and her father, Fred Trump Jr., was a teenager. Donald “was tormenting his little brother Robert, which was one of his favorite things to do” as their mother was making dinner.

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“It’s a pretty obviously transactional family.”

“Robert was getting more and more upset, which made Donald want to torment him even more,” Mary recounted. The rest of the family tried to get young Donald to stop, but to no avail, she said.

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That’s when her father “picked up the bowl of mashed potatoes that my grandmother had just put on the table and he dumped it on Donald’s head.”

“Everybody laughed hysterically at this except, I imagine, Donald,” Mary Trump continued, “who probably felt pretty humiliated.”

She explained that this incident became “a through line at family holiday dinners” and that Donald Trump’s older sister, Marianne Trump Barry, would tell the story each year at Thanksgiving or Christmas as “a dig at her little, annoying, obnoxious brother.”

Mary Trump said that every year, her uncle Donald would “sit at the table, arms crossed, head down, with a pout on his face” as Marianne told the story.

Her aunt Marianne told the story again in 2017 at her birthday celebration at the White House.

“We all laughed, except, of course, Donald who — keep in mind, at that time, was the leader of the free world, and yet still could not handle that feeling of humiliation he had felt over six and half decades earlier,” Mary said. “He sat there, arms crossed, eyes down, and scowled.”

@mltrump

Replying to @Moby this is becoming a mashed potato account, and I think I’m ok with that. Part 1 of 2 #mashedpotatoes #🥔

♬ original sound – Mary L Trump

@mltrump

Replying to @Moby Part 2 of 2 of the TBT mashed potato story. #mashedpotatoes #🥔

♬ original sound – Mary L Trump

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