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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Entertainment
Lloyd Green

Who Could Ever Love You by Mary Trump review – family burn book dishes on Donald

The teal and blue faded book cover of Who Could Ever Love You, featuring a picture of the author Mary Trump as a young girl, next to a picture of current Mary Trump ,59, wearing teal glasses
‘[Her uncle Donald] bullied her, equating cruelty with attention. Little has changed.’ Photograph: Courtesy of St Martin’s Publishing Group

Once again, Mary Trump strafes her family, with her third book in four years. Who Could Ever Love You presents the Trump name as both cocoon and nightmare. Dysfunction reigns. Think of it as a burn book. All get singed.

“I exhaled as the needle slid into my arm,” Trump writes in her prologue, looking back to a stay at a medical facility in 2021.

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