‘Sociopath’ father shaped ‘narcissist’ Donald Trump
Niece says in her book; White House rubbishes her claims
- Mary Trump says Trump paid proxy to take college entrance exam for him
- Book says 'willful ignorant' Trump saw "cheating as a way of life"
Donald Trump's niece describes the US president as a lying narcissist who was shaped by his domineering father, according to excerpts of her memoir published Tuesday.
The White House immediately hit back, describing Mary Trump's "Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man" as "a book of falsehoods."
The memoir is due out on July 14 amid a legal battle to stop its publication and is already a best-seller on Amazon.
Mary, a clinical psychologist, writes that Trump saw "cheating as a way of life," according to The New York Times.
She accuses Trump of "hubris and willful ignorance" stretching back to his younger days.
She alleges that the future US leader paid someone else to take the SAT pre-collegiate exam, helping him get into the University of Pennsylvania's prestigious Wharton business school.
The Times doesn't explain how she knew.
"The absurd SAT allegation is completely false," said deputy White House press secretary Sarah Matthews.
The 240-page book says Trump is a product of his "sociopath" father Fred Trump who created an abusive and traumatic home life, The Washington Post reported.
The memoir is billed as the first unflattering portrayal of Trump by a family insider.
Mary is the daughter of Fred Trump Jr, Trump's older brother, who died in 1981 from complications related to alcoholism.
Foreign policy experts have spent years trying to nail down just what might be the 45th commander in chief's guiding philosophy or set of principles.
Mary Trump writes that one of his sisters once said this: "He has no principles. None!"
His niece writes that Trump shows all the signs of having a narcissistic personality.
"The fact is, Donald's pathologies are so complex and his behaviours so often inexplicable that coming up with an accurate and comprehensive diagnosis would require a full battery of psychological and neurophysical tests that he'll never sit for," she claims.
The book is set to be the latest bombshell book to dish dirt on Trump after former aide John Bolton's tome, which describes the Republican leader as corrupt and incompetent, hit shelves last month.
Trump has described that book as "fiction."