Uncle Donald, the trauma-maker
Vicious coronary blockages are commonly called widow-makers. Some vicious human beings should be called trauma-makers.
These are the solipsists and sadists who careen through their lives creating psychological carnage wherever they go, laying other lives to waste.
“I’m here because Donald Trump is my uncle,” writes Mary L. Trump in “Who Could Ever Love You,” her unsparing new memoir of the psychological devastation wrought by her family‘s dynamics. As the book opens, she’s in a trauma treatment facility in Arizona, taking a ketamine infusion to ease her despair. The shadow cast by her uncle has become too desolate to bear.
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