Interesting article about the book (to be released on Tuesday July 14):
For a shorter read of the article, scroll down to “Do you agree with what she’s written about the president?”
Here’s a heartwarming paragraph from that section (I have inserted some line breaks into what was a hard-to-read wall o’ text):
[Josh] Miller [a clinical psychologist and director of clinical training at the University of Georgia]: "[On narcissism] I agree entirely. ‘Prototypical’ doesn’t describe the degree to which [Trump] meets the criteria for Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Many of us who study it say that if we [described a character like his in a paper] other peer reviewers would say, ‘You’ve made up too cartoonish of a case.’ They wouldn’t believe it would be possible. That’s how incredibly well he fits those symptoms.
I’ve viewed Donald Trump as an example of narcissism going back 15 years. Long before he was running for president, long before he was associated with the Republican Party. Literally, going back into the mid-2000s … at academic talks he was one of the pictures I would put up. This is hardly new.… Narcissism is associated with aggression, in general, and specifically under an ego-threat.
When someone has criticized you, we’re going to see lashing out.… An inability to accept blame — it’s always someone else’s fault.… To not admit one’s mistakes …that inability to admit that one has ever been wrong is a really huge problem…. I agree that we should not be distracted by his narcissism from his psychopathy….
Search for the criteria for psychopathy. Look at traits and behaviours in the psychopathy checklist written by Hare. Grapple with how many would he not fit there. And psychopathy is associated much more strongly than narcissism with behaviours that are particularly scary.… It’s the callousness, irresponsibility, impulse-control problems, lack of remorse or shame."
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Something else trump excels at! He’s the best, most perfectest, quintessential narcissist who ever lived! The winning continues!
Book is out tomorrow the 14th.
She is no longer under restraining order so she can promote the book. I would guess tomorrow she’s on all the networks. Except maybe Fox.
I hope she’s headed to Fresh Air.
Yep – great news for her, for the American public, and for democracy:
Meanwhile, just as a side note, Fauci has been getting media praise for his prescient warnings as COVID really gears up in earnest in most states just as he predicted, and the media has been shitting all over Trump for gross incompetence and his numbers continue to plummet. And the Roger Stone sentence commutation isn’t helping. The Orange Peril must be turning even more orange than usual right now, possibly resembling a Jack-O-Lantern.
Damn, I’m going to have to interrupt reading Bolton’s entertaining book in order to start this one. 
All reasons why she might say he didn’t do it. Plus, she may be guarding his memory; the focus is on Trump, but Shapiro cheated as well by taking the test on Trump’s behalf. From the article you quoted it sounds like the widow is not happy about the aspersions on his character. But for all we know the guy was a sleazebag. I noted when the identification was first made that the quotes from Shapiro’s employer said nothing about what a morally upstanding character he was. And who knows, maybe he had the decency to be ashamed of what he did and simply never told his wife.
There’s a good chance that Shapiro never told his wife one way or the other. This happened in high school. How much do we tell our spouses about our high school days? Why would we ever say what illegal things we did? (speaking in the general sense. I of course did no illegal things) I don’t see the motivation for Shapiro to mention this to his wife. By the time people get married, they’re well over and finished with their high school days.
I told my wife about illegal stuff in HS. Mainly it was swimming in a pool at night , we climbed over the fence. Once we had about 12 people in the pool and the cops showed up. Luckily we were able to get out and run before they got to the pool. They showed up with the lights on so we had plenty of warning. If they had not turned on the lights we probably would have been jailed or at least got a stern talk. I tend to think the lights were on to give us a warning.
On reddit this morning:
Thoughts on “Too much and Never Enough” from personal experience meeting Donald Trump
I met Donald Trump in NYC by way of my girlfriend in the mid 90’s. She was a freelance makeup artist working with VH1 and MTV at the time. The day Donald was scheduled to appear on VH1 for whatever reason, she asked if I’d like to tag along in her studio to meet him. We were both excited to meet The Donald. I spent a 45 minutes watching him in her chair. At no time did he introduce himself to her or to me. His almost laser focus on how he appeared became apparent. One mistake and he unloaded on her as a “useless, incompetent immigrant.” She’s Guyanese. He looked around at me and said, “Are you banging this fucking idiot?” I was stunned. I told my friends what I had witnessed. No one believed me.
None of that made sense, as none of his public and reported private actions made any sense to me until I read Mary Trump’s book. The psychological damage Fred Trump inflicted on his son turned him into a monster of such deep, intertwined, complicated psychopathy, it is a wonder Donald himself didn’t turn to self medication as his brother did.
I was pleasantly surprised how thoughtful and reasonable this book came across. As a Ph.D myself, a deeper look into a very complicated subject was welcomed. Regardless of what you think about our President, this book is a cautionary tale of how much influence parents truly have on their children… deep, psychological, permanent influence.
Yeah, that sounds just like him.
My bold. I’ll bet people will believe him now. 
How has this orange assclown gotten through life without somebody (everybody!) punching him in his slack-lipped sphincter mouth?
I’m half-way finished, but she is just like every other Trump. Conceited, entitled, bitchy, petty. None of these motherfuckers are worth a damn. This book sucks so far. And to think I was so excited to read this for over a month. Psh.
Here’s the last paragraph I just finished to give an example…
“It had all started in 1977 with a three-pack of Bloomie’s underwear,retail $12, my very first Christmas present from Donald and his new wife,Ivana. That same year, they had given Fritz a leather-bound journal. It looked as though it were meant for somebody older, but it was really nice,and I felt a bit slighted until we realized that it was two years out of date.At least the underwear wouldn’t expire.”
One minute she’ll say how her dad has no money, then goes and buys a plane. She’s constantly complaining how she should be entitled to money for doing nothing.
She sucks as a writer, too. I wonder who her ghostwriter is… She’s so fucking redundant. A spoiled brat with a perfect title for her and her family
“Too Much and Never Enough”… They don’t appreciate shit.
Well, it was apparently in college, not high school – Trump started out at Fordham, and it appears that he took the SAT as part of applying to transfer to the Wharton business school at Penn (and Shapiro was apparently a classmate of Trump’s at Fordham).
But, I think the point is still valid – if the story is true, Shapiro did something that was shady when he was in college, and apparently got paid reasonably well for it (at least by the standards of a 20-ish year old in the 1960s). One can imagine that it was something he wasn’t proud of having done, and something he would not have wanted to discuss with others.
Plus, he and Trump apparently continued to associate with each other as adults, and one can also imagine that Trump had pressured Shapiro to not ever reveal the story.
OK thanks, I assumed the SAT would have been taken in high school. I agree, if you do something shady, it isn’t something you bring up a lot.
I initially assumed the same (that’s when I took it, after all). The story about the SAT test in Mary Trump’s book lays out that Donald’s grades at Fordham weren’t great – she alleges that his sister did a lot of his homework, but that she couldn’t take tests for him. When Donald was looking to transfer to Wharton after two years at Fordham, he realized that his grades wouldn’t help his case, so he decided that a good SAT score would be needed.
Who cares? If one gang member rats out another gang member, I don’t care if the guy’s a straight-A Eagle Scout choir member who can spell. If anything, her personality lends credibility to her consummate identity as a trump.
Everything she’s saying is shit EVERYONE already knows…
I’m further now, but just read this:
“Some of the presents they gave her were nice enough,but they always came from lesser stores than the gifts for Ivana and Robert’s wife, Blaine.”
So much for “Omerta”
I don’t believe her any more than I believe any other Trump.
Um… which is it? She’s lying or she’s saying stuff we already know is true?