Mary Trump, the president's estranged niece, says illness was seen as 'unacceptable' by Donald Trump and his father, Fred Trump.
Mary Trump's father, Fred Trump Jr., was an alcoholic."In my family [it] was treated like a moral failing," she says.Mary Trump reflected on her family's history of illness and their attitude about being sick.First of all, what's fascinating is I had no idea that my great-grandfather had died during the 1918 flu pandemic from the flu until I read about it somewhere a couple of years ago.
But, you know, it depended on who it was. And it was also driven by the fact that my grandfather was never sick. Ever. Until in the late '80s, he had a tumor removed, but then he was completely fine. And then many years later when he was suffering from Alzheimer's, he had a hip replacement but wasn't really aware of much of what was going on.
So my grandmother, with her osteoporosis, would come home from the hospital and need more care and physical therapy. And my grandfather was unable to tolerate it. You know, he'd be in the room with her. And as soon as she started showing that she was in physical pain, he would say"everything's great, right. Everything's great." And he'd leave the room.
I have not and unfortunately, it seems like we can't exactly rely upon the information we're getting directly from the medical team at Walter Reed, which is unfortunate because we really do need as much accurate information as possible in a case like this.
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