POLITICS
06/08/2021
09:48 BST | Updated 19 hours ago
Mary Trump Reveals Her Uncle’s Callous Comment
That ‘Sent A Chill Down My Spine’
It was a family saying that always showed "a
cruel indifference to somebody else in despair," said Donald Trump's
niece.
By Lee
Moran, HuffPost US
Mary Trump
said she had a visceral reaction to a particular line that her uncle, Donald
Trump, said during his presidency.
The
ex-president’s niece said hearing her uncle downplay the soaring COVID-19 death
toll in September 2020 to Axios’ Jonathan Swan with the line “it is what it is”
sent “a chill down my spine,” according to an excerpt from her new book, “The
Reckoning,” that was published by Insider on Thursday.
It was “a
popular expression in my family” and “whenever my grandfather, my aunt, or one
of my uncles had said it, it was always with a cruel indifference to somebody
else in despair,” she wrote, per Insider.
“Donald had
said it to me at my grandparents’ house in Queens when I’d asked him why my
grandfather insisted that my father’s ashes were to be buried in the family
plot instead of scattered off the coast of Montauk, as he’d wanted,” she
recalled. Mary Trump’s father, Fred Trump Jr., died in 1981 when she was 16.
“It is what
it is, honeybunch,” her uncle reportedly replied.
Mary Trump
has become a fierce critic of her relative, once saying he had “blood on his
hands” and was “directly responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans”
because of his catastrophic mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic.
Earlier
this week, she predicted he may run for president again in 2024.
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