She is so needed in this time of crazy. Thank you Mary L Trump for being the voice of reason. You talked about such hard issues and I don't know what others will think, but I for one appreciate it so damn much!

Maybe I am wrong about this because I quit listening after the first hour and a half. The description makes this sound like it is about the Trump family dynamics. There is a small bit of that, but so far it is mostly an extremely detailed memoir (like 10 minutes about a neighbor woman her mother let sit drinking and smoking on her bed when she was little) of Mary Trump's grandparents, parents, and herself. Yes, Freddie Trump is part of that. But I was looking for the story of the family dynamics, not her deeply detailed autobiography. I put this down and went to the library to get her other book, "How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man." Guess I should have gone with that to begin with.

I have never been a fan of Donald and feel he is a psycopath. I did enjoy reading this as well as hearing interviews on msnbc. This was a scary retelling of your life. I can not imagine growing up in your shoes though mine was no picnic. You are incredibly bright and had a good head on your shoulders even though living with sadness and rejection. I hope the rest of your life is filled with happiness and friendship.

Every life is intricately different. There are some that are blessed by being born into a loving family that surround their children with love. But there are just as many that come into being in circumstances that are chaotic and fall apart to easily. Some steeped in generations of dysfunction. Being from that second group I found your book to be a healing balm. Thank you for your gift of love, courage, honesty and sense of justice. Your gift is deeply appreciated!

Mary Trump reveals her toxically dysfunctional family, ruled by her grandfather Fred Trump, king of outer borough landlords and father of the 45th president. She chronicles the destruction of her charming party-boy father, crushed by alcohol and paternal cruelty, and the lifetime arrogant meanness of her uncle, Donald J. Insight abounds. Good read.

Mary Trump blames the Trump family for her father's death. Reading this book, I kept thinking her father had a social personality that didn't fit in with the businesslike Trump family. But, at some point, I felt Mary's father had to take responsibility for his own health and life. He smoked two packs a day and drank heavily, losing his jobs and family over his alcoholism. Rehab didn't work for him. The theme of this book is Fred Trump killed his oldest son with a condescending attitude. I feel for Mary, and her childhood memories are well written. But I think it's a stretch to say the family killed her father. Alcohol and smoking killed Mary's father.

Mary Trump grew up in a family divided by its patriarch’s relentless drive for money and power. The daughter of Freddy Trump, the highly accomplished, dashing eldest son of wealthy real estate developer Fred Trump, and Linda Clapp, a flight attendant from a working-class family, Mary lived in the shadow of Freddy’s humiliation at the hands of his father. Fred Trump embodied the ethos of the zero-sum game and among his five children, there could only be one winner. That was supposed to be Freddy, his namesake, but Fred found him wanting—too sensitive, too kind, too interested in pursuits beyond the realm of the real estate empire he was meant to inherit. In Donald, Fred found a kindred spirit, a “killer,” who would stop at nothing to get his own way. Even after Freddy’s short-lived career as a professional pilot for TWA came to an end, he never stopped trying to gain his father’s approval. Finally, at the age of forty-two, he succumbed to Fred’s lethal contempt and died alone in an emergency room, with no family by his side. In WHO COULD EVER LOVE YOU, Mary Trump brings us inside the twisted family whose patriarch ignored, froze out, and eventually destroyed his own. Freddy Trump’s decline into alcoholism and illness, along with Linda’s suffering after their divorce, left Mary dangerously vulnerable as a very young girl. Inadequately and only conditionally loved, there were no adults in her life except for the father she loved, but lost before she could know him; and a mother abandoned by her ex-husband’s rich and powerful family who demanded her loyalty but left her with nothing. With searching insight, poignant detail, and unsparing prose, Mary Trump reveals the cold, selfish cruelty that has come to define the Trump family thanks in large part to her uncle, whose malignant ambition has riven our nation and threatens the world. My Thoughts: Having read the other books by Mary Trump, I was prepared for the power this one would bring, but who knew that Who Could Ever Love You would also bring tears and even anger. Told from her childhood to the current state of the union, I couldn’t stop turning the pages. There wasn’t one single family member that stood by Mary and her father, but even her mother failed her time and time again. Fortunately, her intelligence and ability to pull herself up again and again kept her moving on. But there were so many ways that she could fall down in spite of her strengths. I will never feel vindication for her (and for us) until DJT is wiped off the political scene. 5 stars. ***

Mary Trump is exceptional at what she does so intelligent and extremely smart, I have all three of her books that she’s written about her lamebrain uncle. She leaves nothing out tells it all the way it is.. her books are easy to read ,excellent storiesand loaded, with honest and educated information.. I would recommend this book to anyone who isn’t a Trump fan! exception, Mary Trump