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DSR's Words Matter

Words Matter Library: "Born Trump" by Vanity Fair's Emily Jane Fox

DSR's Words Matter

Riley Fessler

News, Government

4.62.9K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2018

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Like his father, Donald Trump, had 5 children -- hoping that at least one would "turn out like him." Elise and Steve add "Born Trump: Inside America's First Family" by Vanity Fair's Emily Jane Fox to the Words Matter Library brought to you by Audible.  Audible - because Words Matter Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/words-matter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

From Words Matter, here's Elise Jordan and Steve Schmidt.

0:11.3

I'm excited today because we have my friend Emily Jane Fox of Vanity Fair, the All Star

0:17.1

Reporter who is basically your go-to when you want to know what's going on in Trump World.

0:24.1

And we're going to talk about your awesome book called Born Trump.

0:27.3

Thanks for joining us.

0:28.3

Thank you so much for having me.

0:29.7

I read this book immediately and pretty much devoured it.

0:33.5

You can just go straight through and it's so dishy and it really paints the portrait

0:38.2

of just how dysfunctional Donald Trump's family is.

0:42.2

And every page I would say, thank God for my father.

0:45.8

I just thank you mom and dad for being so normal.

0:50.3

And thank you for God for putting me in middle of nowhere Mississippi and not in Trump Tower,

0:56.1

just because the dysfunction just pops off the page.

0:59.4

There's made me writing this book and doing all the reporting, made me so grateful for

1:02.4

my parents and my sister.

1:04.4

I felt like I had a come to Jesus moment of appreciating my family.

1:09.6

This book, there have been so much written about this family and these children since the

1:14.9

day they were born.

1:15.9

Literally, since the day they were born, they've been covered in the press.

1:18.8

And they have these images and these caricatures and now these SNL impersonators.

1:23.8

And so you had this idea of what these children were like and what their father was like.

1:28.2

And I wanted to really understand the relationship with their father to help explain some of the

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