Mary Trump’s TV Tour Is in Full Swing

Freed from her uncle’s attempt at a court-mandated gag order, Mary Trump, the niece of Donald Trump, is in the midst of a full-throated press circuit to promote her new tell-all. In her book, released on Tuesday and titled Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, Mary recounts the extended first family’s salacious drama as she witnessed it throughout her life. And she has wasted no time during her promotional 15 minutes of national television appearances, grabbing headlines last night by telling ABC News chief anchor George Stephanopoulos that the only advice she has for her uncle is, “Resign.”

During the ABC interview, Mary was also asked about her visit to the White House in April 2017, during which Stephanopoulos noted that she told the president, “Don’t let them get you down.” When asked to elaborate on what she meant, Mary replied, “He already seemed very strained by the pressures. He’d never been in a situation before where he wasn’t entirely protected from criticism or accountability, or things like that.” She added that she recalls thinking, “he seems tired. He seems like this is not what he signed up for, if he even knows what he signed up for” and, in hindsight, has concluded, “He’s utterly incapable of leading this country, and it’s dangerous to allow him to do so…based on what I’ve seen my entire adult life.” And, crucially, she reaffirmed her conviction that her uncle did in fact pay a friend to take the SAT for him: She said she learned of the scheme from a source “very close to Donald” and is “absolutely confident” it took place.

The legal action to stifle the release of the book was spearheaded by Robert Trump, Mary’s uncle, who cited the estate settlement of Fred Trump Sr. to argue that his niece should be prohibited from releasing her writing on private family affairs. However, a Dutchess County Supreme Court judge stated that the filing was an “attempt to misinterpret” the Trump Sr. agreement, thus allowing Mary to go forward with the book release and accompanying TV hits. Portions of her interview with Stephanopoulos were first shared on World News Tonight Tuesday night, and Good Morning America played additional clips Wednesday morning. Mary’s first cable-news appearance is scheduled for Thursday night, where she will be interviewed by MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow likely for the program’s full hour.

In her book, Mary makes a number of allegations against the president, including claims that he skipped out on a hospital visit to see her father, Fred Trump, on the night of his death and instead “went to see a movie”; that her aunt, Trump’s sister Maryanne Trump Barry, mocked his 2016 presidential run and called her then presidential-nominee brother “a clown” and “faded reality star” who only “went to church…when the cameras were there”; and that her uncle complimented her breasts when she was 29.

The White House has vehemently denied all of this. “Mary Trump and her book’s publisher may claim to be acting in the public interest, but this book is clearly in the author’s own financial self-interest,” stated the White House. “President Trump has been in office for over three years working on behalf of the American people—why speak out now?” During a Fox News interview, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway suggested that Too Much and Never Enough is “a work of fiction,” while White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany accused the president’s niece of publishing a series of lies during a press conference last week. “It’s ridiculous—absurd allegations that have absolutely no bearing in truth,” she said. “I have yet to see the book, but it is a book of falsehoods.”

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