Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man

by Mary L. Trump

As usual with Donald, the story mattered more than the truth, which was easily sacrificed, especially if a lie made the story sound better.

The fact is, Donald’s pathologies are so complex and his behaviors so often inexplicable that coming up with an accurate and comprehensive diagnosis would require a full battery of psychological and neuropsychological tests that he’ll never sit for. At this point, we can’t evaluate his day-to-day functioning because he is, in the West Wing, essentially institutionalized. Donald has been institutionalized for most of his adult life, so there is no way to know how he would thrive, or even survive, on his own in the real world.