Nobody has failed upward as consistently and spectacularly as the ostensible leader of the free world. - Mary L. Trump

[M]y dad couldn't change who he was, so he was... dismantled over time.

Outside of New York I don't think people really... understood the truth behind his business record, and his financial failures, which are legion and serial.

He's a clown," my aunt Maryanne said during one of our regular lunches at the time. "This will never happen." I agreed. We talked about how his reputation as a faded reality star and failed businessman would doom his run. "Does anyone even believe the bullshit that he's a ? What has he ever accomplished on his own?" I asked. "Well," Maryanne said, as dry as the Sahara, "he has had five bankruptcies.