Plain Talk from Mary Trump
- allegras7
- May 30
- 2 min read
By Jessie Seigel / May 30, 2025
In this issue of My Washington Whispers, I am providing a link to a video recently made by Mary Trump.
Mary is Donald Trump's niece, a psychologist, and author of Too Much and Never Enough, a book about the psychology of the Trump family and of Donald Trump in particular.
But this video is more centrally about our political situation. It stands as an incisive and insightful analysis delivered in plain language, pulling no punches--just the approach I often wish other commentators would take.
Mary argues that to talk with people who vote for Donald--trying to convince them--is a waste of time.
She suggests that people on the left make the mistaken assumption that MAGA folks --"for reasons we can't fathom" vote against their own self-interest. And that the left erroneously assumes that the right's self-interest includes sane goals similar to their own: wanting their children to do better, health care, clean air, economic survival, etc.
Ms. Trump maintains that that assumption is not necessarily correct. That even if those on the far right do want those things, "they want other things more." Specifically, she suggests, they want white people to have more rights than other people. She states: "They don't necessarily care if they do better than such people; they simply want those people to do worse." Mary suggests that many don't want to face that fact "because it is very dark."
Most important, Mary Trump argues: "I always believe in hope, but we can't lie to ourselves. The people in power are the people who want fascism. We do ourselves no favors if we don't name that clearly."
She notes that we need to persistently "throw sand in the gears" of Republican efforts. She then discusses ways in which Democrats are squandering the few opportunities open to them. And she calmly decries Democrats who "continue to choose collegiality over fighting for the American people."
She also argues that those who oppose fascism must recognize that their differences are irrelevant compared to what they are fighting for. She feels that if we can unite effectively, we can win the battle.
Myself, I don't know if it is a fight we will win. But it is a fight we MUST fight to win.
I urge you to watch Mary Trump's video in its entirety (it is not very long). You can access the video here.
I think wanting to keep others down even if it hurts you is probably not solely an American thing, but more universal. The need of some humans to feel that no matter how low they are, at least they are better than someone else. And that that’s more important to their sense of self than teaming up with others who are also downtrodden to actually improve their situation.
(I remember a secretary I met who was angry to that unionized auto workers earned more than her. When I said, sympathetically, that secretaries should have unions too, she got all huffy because SHE was a “white collar worker.” In other words, she’d rather feel she had ahigher status than get better…
I love that the main 50501 protest on June 14 will be in Philadelphia! Appreciated Mary Trump's comment that the antifascist fight is one we can and will win. The hope of victory lies with the people; as has been said, in Trump's having deeply injured virtually every major interest in the country, so that they may unite to be anti-Trump. The mainstream media sucks, becoming increasingly timid ( notably, The New York Times); yet we have Rachel Maddow and others who report on the increasingly widespread protests. Meanwhile, ignored in terms of any effective action by the U.S. or any international organization, we have the most horrific genocide in Gaza.
It’s still true. Orange voters want what the “poor whites” wanted keeping the others, blacks neighbors, down. I don’t know if it’s an American obsession or inherent need to identify and accept the agenda of the man on top, king, president, or rich man.