Donald Trump's niece has said that one of the comments he made sent a chill down her spine.
The Trump Presidency seems to be something of a family enterprise considering the way his kids have backed him in office and he's called out some of the ways they've helped him, such as praising his very tall son Barron for picking out podcasts for him to go on.
However, not every member of the Trump family is a big fan of the guy, as his niece Mary Trump runs a YouTube channel with plenty of videos dedicated to spelling out how awful she thinks he is.
One of the recent ones is titled 'Mary Trump's CHILLING story of Trump's cruelty', and goes into detail about a comment he made which she reckons reveals a lot about him.
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Back in 2020 during his first stint as US president, Trump had been interviewed about his handling of the Covid-19 pandemic where he said the situation was 'under control' and was told by interviewer Jonathan Swan that 'a thousand Americans are dying every day'.
"They are dying. That's true. And you – it is what it is," was Trump's response to that.
Explaining why she found the comment so disturbing, Mary said: "So, why, when Donald said, 'It is what it is', did that send a chill down my spine?
"Well, for normal people, that phrase means something like 'things are terrible, sadly, there's nothing I can do about it, so it is what it is, we just have to accept it and move on'.
"In my family, that is not at all what it meant. What that phrase meant was, 'Yeah, you're going through a bad time. I could help you, but I don't give a s**t'."
She then went on to talk about the day of her father Fred Trump Jr's funeral (he's the reason Donald Trump never drinks alcohol, by the way) back in 1981 when she was 16.
Mary said the family had been waiting to travel to the crematorium, as her father had expressed a wish to be cremated and have his ashes scattered in the Atlantic Ocean.
However, instead of what her father wanted they were going to put his ashes in the family plot, and when she went to her uncle to ask him if he could persuade the rest of the family to respect her deceased father's wishes, she claims he shrugged it off and told her 'it is what it is, honeybunch', and that was the end of it as far as he was concerned.
She then tried talking to other members of the family about it but her pleas fell on similarly deaf ears, and said that when it came to her uncle it was an 'exercise of power' that he 'always wielded against people weaker than he is, or who are constrained by their sense of duty or their dependence from fighting back'.
Topics: Donald Trump, US News
Joe Harker