Went down a #MaryTrump rabbit hole that led me to this @VanityFair article from 1990 re: Trump. Some of the stories and quotes are fascinating. https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/share/e515a2cd-a51b-4f83-8d61-6ebb9a104e0a

"How can you say you love us? You don't love us! You don't even love yourself. You just love your money," twelve-year-old Donald junior told his father, according to friends of Ivana's. "What kind of son have I created?" Trump's mother, Mary, is said to have asked Ivana.

“He was reportedly getting unbelievable deals now from the contractors he had hired to build his casinos and the fiberglass elephants that decorate the Boardwalk in front of the Taj Mahal, for they were desperate, unsure that they would ever get paid for months of work.”

“Often he appeared to free-associate. He referred to himself in the third person: "Trump says. . . Trump believes." His phrases skibbled around and doubled back on themselves like fireworks in a summer sky. He reminded me of a carnival barker trying to fill his tent.”

“Donald is a believer in the big-lie theory," his lawyer had told me. "If you say something again and again, people will believe you."

“Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler's collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed.”

So Trump used to read Hitler’s speeches on the reg. Cool.

“Trump appeared to believe that his money gave him a freedom to set the rules. No one stopped him. His exaggerations and baloney were reported, and people laughed...New York City allowed Trump to exist in a universe where all reality had vanished.”

Then there’s a bit about how he hired a bunch of illegal Polish immigrants for one of his buildings...but basically just another very in-depth story from 30 years ago proving Trump has always been this terrible and has always been enabled, never stopped.