The Real Reason My Uncle Became a Monster
The Mary Trump Podcast
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🗓️ 28 January 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
My conversation with Sarah Ewall-Wice of The Daily Beast about why the real danger isn’t just Donald, but the institutions that have failed to restrain him. We look at his unraveling on the world stage, growing pushback against appeasement, and the family-and-money machinery behind his rise now colliding with cognitive decline and unchecked power. As Donald treats the presidency as a profit center and governance as a transaction, the damage spreads at home and abroad, raising the question of what happens when no one stops him.
This conversation from the Daily Beast January 27th, 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for listening to part one of my Daily Beast interview with Sarah Ewald Weiss, |
| 0:07.6 | in which we discuss Donald's continuing to unravel on the world stage and the family history |
| 0:14.4 | that could explain how we got here. |
| 0:22.7 | The Trump regime is going to continue to double down on its tactics. |
| 0:28.9 | It's going to become increasingly violent. |
| 0:31.7 | And nobody in the executive branch, particularly not Donald, is going to do anything to |
| 0:36.6 | raid them in. |
| 0:37.7 | And we see also how the very first instinct of every single person in charge, from Donald to Nome, to Homan, to Bovino, |
| 0:49.7 | is to attack and defame the victims of the crimes perpetrated against them by federal agencies. |
| 0:58.0 | Today on the podcast, I interview Mary Trump. She is a renowned author, a clinical psychologist, |
| 1:07.0 | and also the writer of the substack, The Good in Us. Today on the podcast, we discussed the horrific shooting in Minnesota |
| 1:14.5 | and President Donald Trump and his administration's response. |
| 1:18.4 | We also talk about the Trump family and their relationship with military service |
| 1:23.4 | after President Donald Trump disparaged NATO troops on the world stage. |
| 1:28.3 | We also got into President Trump's relationship with his mother, |
| 1:32.3 | after he fondly remembered walking with her past what he called an insane asylum |
| 1:37.3 | as he looked back on his life during a press conference. |
| 1:42.3 | Mary Trump, thank you so much for joining me. |
| 1:45.0 | We are coming at this today at a time of very deep tensions in the United States. |
| 1:51.0 | The country does feel like it's at a bit of a breaking point with the latest killing by ice of Alex Prady, that ICU nurse, who worked at the VA in Minneapolis. The president really does thrive in chaos. |
| 2:03.9 | And we are seeing that chaos play out on the streets of the United States. |
| 2:08.5 | But I want to ask you what you fear about how it is playing out in this moment. |
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