[Music] Mary L Trump is an American psychologist and writer a niece of former US president Donald Trump she has been critical of him as well as the rest of the Trump family her 2020 book about him and the family too much and never enough sold nearly 1 million copies on the day of its release born 1965 aged 59 years New York New York parents Fred Trump Jr Linda clap early life and education Mary Trump was born in May 1965 to flight attendant Linda Leah clap and Fred Trump Jr a commercial airline pilot of Transworld Airlines and Son of real estate developer Fred Trump Donald Trump's father her older brother is Fred Trump 3 when she was 16 her father died at 42 of a heart attack caused by alcoholism Mary Trump graduated from the Ethel Walker School in 1983 she studied English literature at tuft's University earned a master's degree in English literature at Columbia University for which she studied the works of William Falkner and his dysfunctional fictional cson family and holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology from The derer Institute of advanced psychological studies at adelfia University career Mary Trump worked for one year at the Manhattan Psychiatric Center while working on her PhD research she is a contributor to the book diagnosis SK schizophrenia published by Columbia University press in 2001 she has taught graduate courses in developmental psychology trauma and psychopathology she is the founder and chief executive officer of the Trump coaching group a life coaching company and has also owned and operated a number of small businesses in the Northeast personal life Mary Trump is openly gay in too much and never enough she makes a brief reference to the fact and states that nobody in the family knew they'd always been spectacularly uninterested in my personal life and never asked about my boyfriends or relationships she wrote that her grandmother Mary and McLoud Trump once referred to Elton John as a and consequently Mary Trump decided not to come out and tell her grandmother or other immediate family that she was going to marry a woman with whom she would later raise a daughter she has since divorced and lives on Long Island New York with her 21-year-old daughter who was conceived by invitro fertilization by a sperm donor