“Too Much and Never Enough” by Mary L. Trump, Ph.D. (post 2): Psychologically Superficial and Clueless

There is nothing in this book to indicate that the author’s uncle, Donald Trump, or her grandfather, Fred Trump, ever confided in her as to what they were thinking or why they did what they did. She never conducted psychological interviews. If they were hearing voices or had memory gaps or felt like there were people inside them that made them do things, she would have no way of knowing.

“When he was deposed [legal, not clinical], Donald didn’t know or couldn’t remember anything, a kind of strategic forgetfulness he has employed many times to evade blame or scrutiny” (1, p. 175). But the author has no way of knowing how much of his forgetfulness was strategic and how much were involuntary memory gaps and dissociative amnesia.

The author never mentions Donald Trump’s use of pseudonyms https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudonyms_of_Donald_Trump, a possible clue to multiple personality.

Nor does she ever mention his change in hair color from day to day (possibly caused by alternating personalities).

Indeed, a peculiar tendency to lie may itself be a clue to multiple personality, as discussed in many past posts (search “lying”).

Perhaps the author can explain these things away, but the fact that she never even mentions them suggests that she is clinically inexperienced and clueless.

1. Mary L. Trump, Ph.D. Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man. New York, Simon & Schuster, 2020.