Trump family member says president is 'still stinging' from a mocking nickname

Donald Trump is "still no doubt stinging" from a derogatory nickname that has been used to ridicule him, according to the president's own family member.

Trump's niece, trained psychologist Mary Trump, on Sunday published a piece on Substack entitled, "The Worst Person at the Worst Time," in which she argues that her uncle's latest move amounts to launching a completely "unilateral, unprovoked, and illegal war."

"As a country, we are at war and the man who led us into this war is a corrupt, degraded, ignorant know-nothing who acted illegally to plunge us into a potentially catastrophic situation without the consent of Congress because, despite the fact that he is president of the United States of America and arguably the most recognized figure on the planet, he wasn’t getting enough attention," she said. "It is long past time that we stop imputing some deeper or reasonable motives to Donald Trump."

She added, "Despite being depraved and cruel, much like his cohort Benjamin Netanyahu, he is driven by the most primitive impulses that center almost solely around protecting his fragile ego from humiliation (about which he has a pathological terror) and himself from the reality that he is a complete fraud."

Elaborating, Mary Trump turns her attention to the recent acronym that went viral for mocking Trump's purported tendency to "chicken out," especially as it relates to trade disputes. The "TACO" name was used by investors looking to bet on tariff outcomes, and Trump lashed out when he was confronted about it.

"Donald is still no doubt stinging from the acronym recently coined to mock his inability to follow through on anything—TACO: Trump Always Chickens Out. In the wake of Israeli strikes against Iran, Donald spent a few days saber-rattling only to back off (chicken out, if you will) in the wake of searing criticism by some of the most reliably sycophantic members of his cult—e.g. Rep. Marjorie Green (R-GA), Alex Jones, and Steve Bannon)," Mary Trump wrote. "He announced at a bizarre press conference that his decision to address the ostensibly urgent crisis regarding Iran would be put off for two weeks."

She continued:

"Only two days later, he ordered the attack on Iran. His allies would have us believe that Donald, a brilliant strategist, was faking us out. Sure. An infinitely more plausible explanation is that, on the one hand, he hates being challenged or contradicted, especially from those who almost always fall in line; therefore, he felt the need to double-down on his threats by carrying them out. On the other hand, Donald is a desperate black hole of need—by changing the narrative, he could make sure the spotlight turned back on him."

Read the full post here.