8 Things Most People Don’t Know About Donald Trump’s Siblings

In 2020, The Washington Post published excerpts of a recorded conversation between Maryanne Trump Barry and her niece, Mary Trump. The conversations were widely publicized as proof of some of the claims made in Mary’s book, and it was scathing stuff that included comments that ranged from confessing to doing his homework for him as a child, to stating: “It’s the phoniness of it all. It’s the phoniness and this cruelty. Donald is cruel.”

After her passing, Donald took to Truth Social to pay tribute to her. He lauded her as being “A truly beautiful woman, tall and elegant, with a presence like no other, she was also a tremendous student, intellect, and Judge… She was a great Judge, and a great sister.” That made it sound like they had mended fences, but according to what inside sources reported to People, that absolutely wasn’t the case.

The anonymous source said that although they had been close, the bombshell release of the audio had driven a bit of a wedge between them. “The Trumps have always been a close family and a lot of this was kept quiet and not discussed publicly,” the source was quoted as saying. “They didn’t hate each other, so it was sad.” They went on to say that “Maryanne loved her brother, but basically gave up on him. … She didn’t talk trash about him in public, but she’d had enough of his lies and fabulism…”