The renaming of the Kennedy Center is an attempt by the president to “fill a void” left by an unhappy childhood, his niece claimed.
Psychologist Mary Trump believes the president’s desire to put his name onto the memorial building is a sign he was not loved enough — and “never will be.” Speaking to The Daily Beast, Mary Trump said the president is “constantly trying to fill a void that cannot be filled,” and it’s because of how Trump was treated during his youth.
Mary Trump believes her uncle did not receive preferential treatment or attention in his youth, and is now using the powers of the presidency to make sure he receives the love he wants.
She argued, “He is constantly trying to fill a void that cannot be filled, and the reason is actually pretty simple: even though Donald was the preferred child of my grandfather — and by preferred I mean most useful to him, the most useful in advancing his own agenda — my grandfather and my grandmother rendered Donald unlovable.”
“The only thing, the thing he most desperately wants in his life, is to be loved. He never has been sufficiently. He never will be. That is an impossible thing for him to achieve.”
Mary Trump went on to call the president a “terrified little boy” whose administrative failures is a reflection of his inability to “face the truth” of his political shortcomings.
She added, “Because his needs will never be met, and he can never grapple with them in a real way because he is just a terrified little boy who cannot face the truth about himself, all of us are suffering.”
“He doesn’t have any conscious awareness of that, but he certainly understands it on a deep, unconscious level. And that’s why so much of his psychic and emotional energy is spent protecting himself from that knowledge. It’s a full-time job.”
Further problems for the renaming of the Kennedy Center come from Trump’s apparent indifference to the arts. Mary Trump said, “If you look at some of the things that President Kennedy had to say about the importance of the arts and what we should aspire to as a country—many of those quotes etched on the façade of that building—it just underscores how egregious this is.”
“Donald cares nothing for the arts. He and his administration have underfunded or defunded them.”
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