Hey deserving listeners, a lot of you over the years have asked me about Donald Trump's personality.

Is he narcissistic? Is he a psychopath? That sort of thing.

And I've talked a lot about him over the years, over my 12 years as a podcaster.

But whenever I talked about him, I would often say, especially at the beginning as a caveat,

that I don't really have much to go on because I only have what's available to me on the internet so I don't

really have the ability to assess his personality.

When I assess someone's personality they're sitting on my couch, we're working collaboratively

together, I might administer tests. I can interview them

for many, many weeks, months, years even and so I haven't really had much to go on. But

then Mary Trump, his niece, just wrote a book about his childhood.

And it has just a ton of details about Donald Trump's childhood and the family in which he grew up in.

And Mary Trump is a psychologist and she actually diagnosis him in the book.

It's like a really long psychological assessment.

So that's what I'm going to review in this episode today. I'm going to talk about the book.

I'm going to talk about what she says. I'm going to provide some commentary. So just some caveats. I'm going to try to make this as

friendly as I can to both Democrats and Republicans. Also, I'm not endorsing Mary Trump's statements because I haven't assessed

Donald Trump and I have no idea as to the validity or the reliability of

Mary Trump's assessment of him.

Okay, so who is Mary Trump, the author of this book? Well, she is

Donald Trump's niece. She is Donald's older brother's daughter. So Donald

Trump has an older brother who died a number of years ago,

Fred Jr. and Mary Trump is Fred Jr's daughter. She seemed to have some

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