Donald today is much as he was at three years old: incapable of growing, learning, or evolving, unable to regulate his emotions, moderate his respons… - Mary L. Trump

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.

Donald was incompetent, but others in Donald's administration were anything but. What they built was a lean and ruthless machine for advancing fascism. With the help of some luck, complicit institutions, an unprepared media, and a party of willing converts, that machine largely succeeded.

<nowiki>[</nowiki>] had no empathy. He was... driven in a way that turned other people, including [family]... into pawns to be used to his own ends. If somebody could be of service... he would use them. If they couldn't be, he excised them.