MARY TRUMP/TRUMP FAMILY: “I think that when you’re – when you’re looking at somebody’s pathologies, it’s not just how they come across. It’s also how it affects them and their day-to-day functioning. So – although, again, that’s also hard to suss out because he’s [Donald Trump], as I say in the book, institutionalized to some degree. He’s protected by the fact that he doesn’t really need to live in, or support himself, in the real world…
It just makes it very difficult to see how his functioning is affected because the context in which he’s functioning is so small. You know, he doesn’t have to negotiate the real world, like the rest of us do.
And, quite honestly, he hasn’t – he never really has had to. You know, he’s gone from my grandparents’ house, to my grandfather’s business, to Trump – The Trump Organization, to the Oval Office.”
-Mary Trump, “Cuomo Prime Time,” cnn.com, July 17, 2020