Donald Trump’s niece issues brutal takedown on 'reality' of president

Mary Trump has issued a brutal assessment of the US leader's finances in a new interview.

The niece of Donald Trump through his brother Fred Trump Jr, Mary has been a vocal critic of her uncle since he returned to the White House last year, previously describing the POTUS as a 'fraud and a bully' in a 2020 book on her family.

Now the psychologist and author has hit out at her uncle's finances, telling CNN’s Anderson Cooper that he is 'never as wealthy as he claimed to be'.

"Donald was never as wealthy as he claimed to be," she claimed, noting that Trump had allegedly received 'over $400 million in gifts and unpaid loans' from his father, Fred Trump.

"We‘re seeing the same thing with his children. It‘s not again, that, they are savvy or have any kind of specialised skills or knowledge," she continued. "It‘s that they just happen to be related to people who have power and political connections, and that‘s what they‘re trading in on."

Mary Trump is a vocal critic of her uncle and his presidency (Nordin Catic/Getty Images for The Cambridge Union)

Mary's interview came after it was revealed that the 80-year-old had pocketed more than $1.4 billion (£1.05 billion) through cryptocurrency dealings since beginning his second term in office.

A report from The New York Times added that Trump came when a United Arab Emirates-based firm bought around half of the Trump family crypto, World Liberty Financial.

His total income for the year is estimated to be about $2.2 billion (£1.8 billion), published as part of his mandatory financial report.

Trump was also gifted a $400 million luxury jet from Qatar, which the president was not able to use during his recent trip to the NATO summit in Ankara due to concerns about the jet not being up to security standards.

Telling Cooper that she was not surprised by the news, Mary claimed that her famous family came from a 'history of corruption'. "My grandfather also engaged in all sorts of illicit financial schemes to increase his wealth," she said.

The 61-year-old went on to accuse the rest of her family of rigging the system 'in their favour' while in office.

Mary's comments come as it was revealed the US leader made over $1 billion in cryptocurrency (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Trump has repeatedly denied any conflict of interest between his presidency and business endeavours, with his portfolio said to have been placed in a trust managed by his sons, Eric and Donald Jr.

"Neither the President nor his family has ever engaged - or will ever engage - in conflicts of interest," Anna Kelly, White House deputy press secretary, told the BBC.

"All actions by President Trump and his administration are taken in the best interest of the American people – and any so-called 'reporters' pushing otherwise are recycling the same, tired, false narrative that Democrats and the legacy media have been pushing for a decade."

LADbible has approached the White House for comment.