Mary Trump Issues Ominous Warning About Second Donald Trump Presidency

Donald Trump's estranged niece has said that her uncle "will destroy us" if he successfully lands a second term as president later this year.

Mary Trump—daughter of Fred Trump Jr.—is a frequent critic of the former president, and has publicly criticized him over everything from his ongoing "hush money" criminal trial to his family history.

As the presumptive Republican nominee for November's election, Donald Trump is preparing for a rematch with President Joe Biden, following his defeat in 2020. The former star of The Apprentice has continued to spread the unfounded claim that he lost to Biden because the 2020 election was "stolen."

"Those of us paying attention—because we care, because we must, because we are too afraid to turn away—spend many of our waking moments freaked out about November and the potential aftermath," wrote Mary Trump on Substack on Sunday. "We are so turned around that many of us blame the man who has actually tried to fix the horrific damage his predecessor inflicted on all of us while giving a pass to the man who landed us here. And not only is Donald getting a pass; tens of millions of [Americans] want to give him almost unlimited power which he will wield in ways that will destroy us. We know this is what will happen because that is what he and his co-conspirators are telling us, loudly and clearly."

Mary Trump addressed the fact that a large number of Americans believe the country was better off under her uncle's administration, a factor that she has blamed on the "trauma" of the COVID-19 pandemic. A recent poll from CNN/SSRS showed that 55 percent of Americans said they view Donald Trump's White House term as successful, while 61 percent responded that they saw Biden's tenure as a failure.

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Tackling Donald Trump's popularity, the psychologist said: "We are so broken that a significant number of us believe they were better off four years ago than we are now. Stop for a minute and consider that. More people think jobs and the economy were better during the Trump administration than under Biden despite ample evidence to the contrary.

"More people think Donald was a stronger and more decisive leader than Biden is. More people think it was Donald who displayed good judgment in a crisis and that he was better at managing the government effectively.

"In what universe is this even possible? How could so many people believe that the man who killed hundreds of thousands of Americans with COVID, who incited an armed insurrection against his own government, and who has been engaged in the big lie for almost four years in an attempt to break Americans' confidence in the very concept of free and fair elections is a better alternative to President Biden?"

Mary Trump said she was "tempted to think it's mass delusion" at the core of this belief, before citing an article that clinical psychiatrists George Makari and Richard A. Friedman wrote for The Atlantic in March.

The article stated that Biden "is paying the price for America's unprocessed COVID grief." The height of the pandemic took place from 2020, during the final months of Donald Trump's term. Biden took office in January 2021, as the pandemic continued to negatively impact the global economy.

"[W]e see the effects of such emotional turmoil every day, and we know that when it's not properly processed, it can result in a general sense of unhappiness and anger—exactly the negative emotional state that might lead a nation to misperceive its fortunes," the article written for The Atlantic read.

"When faced with an overwhelming and painful reality like COVID, forgetting can be useful—even, to a degree, healthy," the article continued. "It allows people to temporarily put aside their fear and distress, and focus on the pleasures and demands of everyday life, which restores a sense of control. That way, their losses do not define them, but instead become manageable."

"Backing the Big Lie"

Weighing in on this idea, Mary Trump wrote on Substack that "things didn't get better after Joe Biden won the 2020 election, they got worse. It started with Donald's failure to concede the election, continued with January 6th, and worsened when almost all elected Republicans decided to keep Donald at the head of the Party by backing the big lie and then pretending the insurrection, during which their own lives were in danger, wasn't really a big deal after all."

Following Donald Trump's false and often repeated claim that the 2020 election was fraudulent, a mob of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C., to stop the certification of Biden's 2020 election win.

On April 6, the United States Attorney's Office District of Columbia said some 1,387 people had been criminally charged in connection with the riot at the Capitol.

Donald Trump faces four federal felony counts: conspiracy to defraud the United States; conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding; obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding; and conspiracy against rights, regarding his actions surrounding the riot. He has denied any wrongdoing.

"Promoting Divisiveness"

Mary Trump wrote that "you cannot heal from your trauma if you're still in the midst of being traumatized—or re-traumatized, as the case may be."

"One of the very few mitigating factors of mass trauma is the sense that we are all in it together," she went on. "Members of the Trump administration made that impossible not because they were incompetent but because they thought dividing us was a winning strategy. My fear is they were right."

"[G]iven the failures to grapple with the betrayals and the source of them, we are close to putting back in the Oval Office the man who created the circumstances of our malaise, who killed many of us and cynically manufactured...horrible divisions among the rest of us, and who will, if given the opportunity, break us. It is quite literally stunning," she added.