In the first excerpts of her interview with ABC News, Mary Trump recalled visiting the Oval Office just a few months after her uncle, Donald Trump, took office.
“He already seemed very strained by the pressures … and I just remember thinking, ‘He seems tired. He seems like this is not what he signed up for,’” she said.
She said that Trump was “utterly incapable of leading this country,” and that it was even “dangerous” for him to do so.
George Stephanopoulos asked her, “If you’re in the Oval Office today, what would you say to him?” She responded, “Resign.”
The interview will air on Good Morning America on Wednesday, the network said, and on other news shows.
On Monday, a New York judge lifted a restraining order that prevented Trump from discussing Too Much And Never Enough: How My Family Created The World’s Most Dangerous Man. The president’s brother, Robert Trump, had sought to halt publication of the book, claiming that she was barred from discussing the family as part of a settlement agreement of the estate of Fred Trump Sr., the family patriarch.
The book was released by Simon & Schuster on Tuesday.
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