My Uncle Donald Trump Told Me Disabled Americans Like My Son 'Should Just Die'

[dalton99a]

https://time.com/7002003/donald-trump-disabled-americans-all-in-the-family/


My Uncle Donald Trump Told Me Disabled Americans Like My Son ‘Should Just Die’
By Fred C. Trump III
July 24, 2024 8:01 AM EDT
Fred C. Trump III is the author of All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way.

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When William was 9 years old, Lisa and I met with Donald and a medical fund was created for William's care by the Trump Family, a fund that was crucial to our ability to support him. ...

Soon thereafter, I was up at Briarcliff Manor, home of the Trump National Golf Club in Westchester, N.Y. Donald happened to be there.

He was talking with a group of people. I didn’t want to interrupt. I just said hi on my way through the clubhouse. I called him later that afternoon, and he answered.

I got him up to speed on what Eric had told me. I said I’d heard the fund for William was running low, and unfortunately, the expenses certainly were not easing up as our son got older. In fact, with inflation and other pressures, the needs were greater than they’d been. “We’re getting some blowback from Maryanne and Elizabeth and Ann Marie. We may need your help with this. Eric wanted me to give you a call.”

Donald took a second as if he was thinking about the whole situation.

“I don’t know,” he finally said, letting out a sigh. “He doesn’t recognize you. Maybe you should just let him die and move down to Florida.”

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[Fla Dem]

1. What a heartless, son of a bitch A-hole.

[jimfields33]

38. He gives money to them and he says that?

Without the money in the first place, he’d be no longer with us. Strange story.

[tavernier]

44. A medical fund was set up by the family when the child was young.

I doubt that he would have contributed otherwise.

[mgardener]

48. It doesn't surprise me in the least.

[Blue Owl]

2. Echoes of the GOP's kinder, gentler machine-gun hand

[atreides1]

3. We shouldn't jump to conclusions...

At least not until Snopes can confirm that this conversation actually took place...

[Walleye]

4. When someone tells you who they are, etc.

[XanaDUer2]

5. Just sent my idiot disabled Trump sister this

[JI7]

6. We knew this before 2016

the media failed or rather showed what they really are about by not reporting more on this.

[dalton99a]

11. Yep.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-revoke-cut-off-child-medical-bills-family-feud-a6795131.html
Donald Trump cut off medical funds to nephew's sick baby because he was 'angry' over family feud
Trump reportedly withdrew funds that paid for a sick child's medical bills after the parents sued his family
Monday 04 January 2016 00:14 GMT

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3382756/Donald-Trump-cut-medical-treatment-nephew-s-sick-baby.html
Donald Trump admits cutting off medical treatment for his nephew's sick baby after will dispute with alcoholic brother's family
Trump's older brother Freddy died an alcoholic at the age of 43 in 1981
When Trump family patriarch Fred Sr. died in 1999, Freddy's children were cut out of the will Donald helped draft
Donald admitted he reneged on a pledge to pay the medical bills for the medical care of the sick infant when the Freddy's children sued
11:17 EDT, 3 January 2016

etc. etc.

[Tadpole Raisin]

51. I remember that! Media dropped the ball. It should have been all over the

airways. Unless of course they tried to and would be tRump supporters didn’t care. That wouldn’t surprise me either.

[PatSeg]

36. True, it has never been a secret who and what Trump is

So many stories that we've heard since Trump entered politics were common knowledge, yet the MSM often couldn't be bothered to report it. Shoot, Trump frequently told us outright who he was. He bragged about not paying taxes, cheating the system, and being a sexual predator.

Meanwhile, the mainstream media wouldn't let go of Hillary's emails as if that was the scandal of the century. Then the constant drumbeat about Joe Biden's age and health, while there are countless stories on Trump that rarely see the light of day.

There is very little about Trump that isn't known and you can be sure if that little bit were revealed, the NYT and Washington Post probably would ignore it.

[Goonch]

7. All in the Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way

[Arne]

37. Where is Epstein in this picture?

[Crunchy Frog]

56. I'd buy it, but I'm hoping I can just forget they ever existed after November.

[madaboutharry]

8. You know who else believed people with disabilities should die?

The Nazis.

[Peacetrain]

9. Exactly!!

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

12. Aktion T4

They first practiced on people with disabilities before expanding their killing

[Jim__]

10. And yet, about 40% of the country will vote for this asshole.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

13. As a person with disabilities, this ratio of assholes sounds just about right n/t

[deurbano]

25. Including my mother and sister (my only sibling) even though my older daughter is quadriplegic with a speech

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disability. (Not to mention an elected Harris delegate from San Francisco!) My mother had sworn she would never vote for him after he mocked the disabled reporter...but anybody still a Republican no longer has two principles to rub together, so she not only voted for him, but even flew 3000 miles to attend his inauguration. My sister went full MAGA early on, and she became deliberately personally insulting (on FB) about the college my older daughter and I went to (Berkeley) and California (where we live)... etc.. Like, "I would be ashamed if any of my daughters wanted to attend that snowflake school" (as if they could get in). I no longer have anything to do with her.

My mom helped politically mentor Kevin McCarthy (and my sister was friends with him growing up), while my older daughter has been politically mentored by Christin Pelosi, and given amazing opportunities (like being appointed to the National Council on Disability) by Nancy Pelosi (and my son was an intern in her office during one college summer break)...so you can imagine how pleased I was to see My Kevin go down in flames. (Especially after what a POS he was in not providing any public words of support for the Pelosi family, or any words of condemnation regarding political violence, when Paul Pelosi was so brutally attacked.)

[Dem4life1234]

33. There's a lot of mean spirited assholes in this country.

I used to think more people were decent, but there's a lot of these hateful idiots in this country.

[DENVERPOPS]

47. Perhaps

it just shows yet another character flaw in all of them.............SADISTIC.................

[surfered]

14. His fellow golfers said he would continue playing if you had a medical emergency.

It’s well established that Trump is a narcissistic sociopath.

[ProfessorGAC]

43. One Correction

He would continue cheating at golf, not continue playing the game.
I just remember what one touring pro said about him. "He shot a 74. I'm not sure if that was after 14 or 15 holes, though."

[Prairie Gates]

15. I doubt any statements by Trump's niece or this guy has ever changed a single person's mind

This is just marketing for the books.

[orleans]

57. yeah, well, i'm thinking this book (and maybe mary's book/s) would be the ones to buy if only

for the royalities to help them out -- especially fred and his kid

[orwell]

16. For a lot of his followers...

...this projects decisive strength. This is why they are drawn to him.

He is a mob boss, but he is their mob boss.

He is the alpha male.

He breaks the normative rules of society to get what he and they want.

They are fine with it because the ends justify the means.

That is what is so difficult for us to accept. There will be no "lightbulb moment" for his cult.

[dalton99a]

18. +1. Morals, norms, decency are meaningless to them

Comparisons to Nazi Germany are apt

[orwell]

22. Which makes the support...

...of many evangelicals even more striking.

In the end humans seem very capable of situational ethics. It is likely linked to the lizard brain and the evolutionary biology of survival.

All of the noteworthy autocrats understood this, especially Hitler.

There is a reason why the sick fuck absorbed Mein Kampf as nightly bedside table reading.

[Conjuay]

31. I've think of him and President Biden

One read and absorbed Mein Kampf, the other read and absorbed T. S. Elliott.

[radius777]

19. Yes, that is the appeal of authoritarians.

It is those 'others' who will lose their rights, not those on the side of the authoritarian leader, whose purpose it is to restore the 'correct' order.

[orwell]

23. Correct...

...and eventually misguided as those 'others' always grow in number as the authoritarian becomes more paranoid.

[CaptainTruth]

20. His cult are the dim bulbs.

[Diamond_Dog]

39. You nailed it, orwell.

[GoldenMezzoDiva]

17. The Creature is a nazi, for sure...

disdain for the disabled—mentally or physically—has always called for complete isolation and/or death. So mocking and taunting is just fine 'n dandy with It (The Creature), and Its inhuman lemmings.

[Farmer-Rick]

21. So true

Such recommendations to withhold medical care and allow disabled people to die is very much a Nazi thing.

It's also is very much a malignant narcissist thing.

Pedo Trump is both.

[Attilatheblond]

24. Disabled should just die?

Like people with bone spurs so sever they cannot serve in the military, cannot be drafted to go to war? Those people?

[dickthegrouch]

49. Or people with dementia?

Or perhaps people with no empathy?

[AllaN01Bear]

26. hem.

[Martin68]

27. Showing his true colors.

[Ray Bruns]

28. The only question I have is any really shocked by this revelation?

[peggysue2]

29. My grand baby would be on the vulnerable list with a Trump Administration

She has fought for every breath since the day she was born. She's doing well now but has a long road ahead. Health care cuts would be a death knell for a patient like Cassandra.

There's no way in hell I'd risk her fate or future to a bunch of snarling wolves.

Cassandra is one of millions in the same position--disabled, vulnerable, future candidates for the scrap heap in an authoritarian state where a world of givers and takers take on a far more grim conclusion.

Not on Nan's watch!

[keithbvadu2]

30. Aktion T4... "mercy death" for mentally and physically imperfect

Is there a newer Trump version in his secret dealings?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aktion_T4

[people]

32. Donald Trump Thinks Disabled People should Die . . .

He really is Hitlerian.

[AllyCat]

34. DJT is a horrible person. He has not one care or concern for ANYONE but himself.

He is openly hostile to others. He has no business being the idol of anyone, let alone squatting on the toilet in the WH.

[Kingofalldems]

35. Kick this one.

[Arne]

40. First they came for us,

then they came for you.

[republianmushroom]

41. The convicted felons compassion.

[DemocratInPa]

42. This needs an ad by the DNC

So sickening

[kozar]

45. I'll stay calm on this one,

Rather than risking a permanent ban here on DU,
What I will share, even LilBit would not accept a hug from this monster.

That SOB

Koz

[LudwigPastorius]

46. Good thing for you the Secret Service doesn't feel...

the same way, Shitheel.

[NowISeetheLight]

50. POS

I just read this. All I can say is it sounds like something Trump would say.

[Mike Nelson]

52. His fans won't care...

... they will dismiss the story as "fake" or they will believe it's a sign of their idol's God-given superiority.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

53. TFG is a sick asshole

Link to tweet

[dalton99a]

54. +1. Trump is an evil and dangerous monster.

[Crunchy Frog]

55. This is the "man" who pretends that he's campaigning against

"post birth abortions", when he'd be carrying them out personally if they were actually a thing.