Mary Lea Trump (b.1965)

She is best known as the author of Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man (2020) in which she paints an intimate picture of her uncle's character: "Donald today is much as he was at three years old, incapable of growing, learning, or evolving, unable to regulate his emotions, moderate his responses, or take in and synthesize information. Donald's need for affirmation is so great he doesn't seem to notice that the largest group of his supporters are people he wouldn't condescend to be seen with outside a rally. His deep seated insecurities have created in him a black hole of need that constantly requires the light of compliments that disappears as soon as he's soaked it in. Nothing is ever enough. This is far beyond garden variety narcissism, Donald is not simply weak, his ego is a fragile thing that must be bolstered every minute because he knows deep down he is nothing of what he claims to be. He knows he has never been loved so he must draw you in if he can by getting you to assent to even the most seemingly insignificant thing: 'isn't this plane great?' 'Yes Donald, this plane is great.' It would be rude to begrudge him that small concession."