Mary Trump took a jab at her cousin Ivanka Trump, suggesting the White House adviser and first daughter has no sway in the West Wing.
“I think she’s the one who disproves that on an almost daily basis,” Mary Trump, 55, said in a new interview with the Washington Post. “She doesn’t do anything. She spouts bromides on social media, but either she tries to have an impact and fails or just isn’t interested in having an impact. I can’t think of one thing she’s done to show that she’s moderate or a moderating influence.”
Mary Trump, who is estranged from her family, writes in her new book, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, about the contentious upbringing and relationships she had growing up as a Trump. She also describes her uncle’s presidency as a “dangerous” event in history.
Trump has called on the president to resign and has said she will vote for Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, in November. In turn, the White House has repudiated the claims in Mary Trump’s book, and her other uncle, Robert Trump, tried to block its publication in court.
Mary Trump, a psychologist, also said Ivanka’s husband, Jared Kushner, lacks influence in terms of moderating Trump’s behavior despite being a senior adviser. She said the married couple should be blamed for being “chiefs of staff who went along thinking that they could have some kind of influence, only to find that they didn’t.”
The president’s niece said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, is “perfectly willing to put up with all sorts of egregious behavior [by Trump] to get his own agenda through.”
