Mary Trump says that President Trump should not be in office.
Her Tuesday remarks came the same day that Simon & Schuster released her controversial new book, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, which her uncle Robert, the president’s younger brother, led an unsuccessful effort to keep from being published.
George Stephanopoulos of ABC News asked Trump what she would ask the president if she were in the Oval Office today. She had a one-word message for him: “Resign.”
She went on to say that her uncle’s family issues growing up rendered him “utterly incapable of leading this country, and it’s dangerous to allow him to do so.”
“I saw firsthand what focusing on the wrong things, elevating the wrong people can do — the collateral damage that can be created by allowing somebody to live their lives without accountability,” she said. “And it is striking to see that continuing now on a much grander scale.”
Trump also recalled seeing the president in the Oval Office about three months after he was inaugurated. She said that her uncle “already seemed very strained by the pressures” at the time.
“And I just remember thinking, ‘He seems tired. He seems like this is not what he signed up for,’” she added.
Prior to the book’s publication, a judge released Trump from a gag order, allowing her to speak publicly about her family.
“Now that the unconstitutional gag order has finally been lifted, we are sure the White House and America are looking forward to finally hearing what Mary has to say,” her spokesperson said in a statement obtained by the Washington Examiner.
The White House has pushed back on her claims and has questioned the timing of the book.
“Mary Trump and her book’s publisher may claim to be acting in the public interest, but this book is clearly in the author’s own financial self-interest,” White House deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews said. “President Trump has been in office for over three years working on behalf of the American people — why speak out now?”
