Mary L. Trump's book: Too Much and Never Enough

 *Mary L. Trump's book: Too Much and Never Enough*

*By Felix Akpan*

The enthusiasm  I looked forward to reading the much hyped Mary Trump's  book, Too Much and Never Enough: How my family created the world's most dangerous man diminished as soon as I read the Author's Note, where she admitted that most of her claims in the book came from secondary sources. I knew immediately that relying on secondary sources, even if they were incontrovertible would generate controversies and create sour tastes in the mouth and minds of readers. Her uncle, President Donald Trump, even without reading the book has used that to discredit it and called her a pathological liar. Another reason why my enthusiasm waned is that  I also realized that the presumptive authoritative portrait of President Donald Trump and the toxic family that made him, is arguably the biography of her late Father, Freddy Trump, who passed on at the age of 42. 

In my opinion, the book is a comparative analysis of Freddy and Donald Trump in order to explain how her grandfather, Fred Trump destroyed her father, Freddy Trump for daring to be independent and in turn created the world's most dangerous man, Donald Trump,  Fred Trump's favorite son. She provides  the reader with enough evidence that no naysayers can object to, to show that Donald Trump would have been nothing without his Father's wealth. And more revealing, but  unconscionably, how her grandfather's parenting style and wealth imbued in Donald Trump the most severe form of sociopathic personality disorders, such as antisocial personality disorder and dependent personality disorder. That's her explanation for Donald Trump's pathologies and deviant behavior.

The tell-all narrative, provides the reader a compelling insight into the chequered history of one of America's most dysfunctional families blessed with the divide providence of  producing the 45th POTUS. Like we love to say in Naija, my brother, God can bless anybody.  Thus, anyone that really wants to understand the weight of that statement should read Mary L. Trump's family story, especially her professional assessment of her uncle, Donald Trump. She recounts in an unnerving but also fascinating way how her incorrigible con-artist uncle, Donald Trump, lied his way to the White House just because no member of the Trump family was willing to tell the world the truth about  Donald Trump, the supposedly scion of a wealthy family, who in all honesty is a social and psychological misfit in all ramifications.

By my estimation, it seems like the book was written  for the American electorates to enable them decide whether to reelect President Donald Trump in the forthcoming election or send him back to his penthouse on Trump Tower, New York City, to continue to bask in his inherited wealth as usual. However, based on electoral studies across democracies,  voters are not rational actors when it comes to whom to vote for in an election, so, I doubt if the book would significantly impact the election positively or otherwise. But no matter the outcome of the election, that would not in anyway belittle the author or the book.