Book Review: Too Much and Never Enough

The book can be summed up like this: It. Explains. A. Lot. 

Mary Trump is the niece of the now (thankfully) former president donald t***p (whom she just refers to as donald, both throughout the book and in interviews). It is a book that really explains a lot about why he is the way he is, shedding light on the fact that his father, Mary's grandfather, was very much like donald (with a bit better business acumen and at least somewhat smarter). It details how Fred t***p basically saw donald as the heir apparent to his real-estate empire, yet constantly had to keep bailing donald out of one bad financial deal after another because, frankly, donald was too damn stupid to run a successful business on his own. And, this, basically, instilled in donald that he would always fail upward as long as he could blame his failures on anyone else and take credit for any success. She details a lot of information about how the family members interact with (or don't interact with) each other, and that nearly all the relationships are transactional-based, and not based on a loving, tight-knit family unit. 

The book is not long at all, just over a couple of hundred pages, and is a fairly easy read. Mary portrays donald as a guy who is deeply stupid yet thinks he knows more about any subject than anyone else walking the face of the earth and lies like a rug constantly. The impression she gives is that he sometimes knows he is lying and does it on purpose, and sometimes believes what he is actually saying and just spouts off and riffs and does not know what is the truth and what is a lie. This definitely comports to how he was as a Presidential candidate and as President, when, if you really listened to what he said, he would contradict himself, sometimes in the same sentence. 

Overall, if you are a trump cult member or Q-nutjob, nothing she says in this book will ever change your mind about your orange messiah. For anyone else who has ever listened to it ramble on nonsensically and wonders what the hell made it the way it is, this provides a lot of insight. It is definitely worth the read.