Early life and education. A native of Alamance County and a beloved sister, mother, and grandmother. They lived in a drafty apartment in Highlander Hall, a Trump building in Queens, and at one point she was hospitalized with pneumonia.Her father started to spiral downward. “He felt the mother was the cause of Fred’s difficulty.”Fred Trump Sr. also looked down on Mary Trump and her brother because of what he perceived as a poor work ethic fostered by inheriting their father’s money, according to testimony in the will dispute by John Walter, Donald Trump’s cousin.“He knew what Fred III was doing,” Mr. Walter testified. His father’s behavior, she concludes, led the president to adopt bullying and other aggressive behaviors to mask his own insecurities.While several close associates of Mr. Trump have published exposés of him and his time in office, Mary Trump, who is 55 and lives on Long Island in New York, is the first member of the family to have broken ranks by writing a book.Sarah Matthews, a White House spokeswoman, said Tuesday that the book was in Ms. Trump’s “own financial self-interest.” She said the president has described his relationship with his father in warm terms and called the allegation about the SAT “completely false.”A lawyer for Mr. Trump’s family, Charles Harder, did not respond to an email seeking comment.John Barrengos, one of Ms. Trump’s oldest friends, said that he believed the book was her response to a family that she feels tried to silence her and an attempt to shed light on her uncle, whose politics she strongly opposes.“I think trying to tell the story as she sees it is a way of again claiming her voice not just in the construct of the family, but in the context of what our country is going through,” Mr. Barrengos said.The seeds of Ms. Trump’s alienation began before she was born, with her father’s relationship to his family, and continued through her childhood before bursting open when her grandfather died, according to her book and court documents, some of which remain under seal.Ms. The eldest Trump sibling became a pilot and struggled with alcoholism.In her book, Ms. Trump writes that her uncle Donald watched her grandfather mock her father, learned from the ridicule to become Fred Sr.’s favorite son and joined in it. You need sunlight. You need fresh air. He had tried to buy a house but could not get a mortgage. Linda Lea Clapp Trump 1939 – 2001 (m. ... memorial page for Frederick Christ “Freddy” Trump Jr. (14 Oct 1938–26 Sep 1981), Find a Grave Memorial no. While she has chosen to speak out against the family, he has taken a different path, nurturing a relationship with their uncle. Mary Lea Trump was born in May 1965 to flight attendant Linda Lee Clapp and Fred Trump Jr., a commercial jet pilot with Trans World Airlines.Her older brother is Frederick Trump III. Her new book casts a cold light on the relatives she describes as dysfunctional.Her uncle, President Trump, for years looked down on her father — his own brother, Fred Trump Jr., an alcoholic who died when she was a teen.Her grandfather, Fred Trump Sr., hated her mother, whom he blamed for Fred Trump Jr.’s drinking, court papers say. Trump graduated from the Ethel Walker School in 1983. “You may wish to increase their participation in your estate to avoid ill will in the future.”After Fred Trump Sr. died on June 25, 1999, Mary Trump and Fred Trump III learned that they had been cut out. And I learned from him.” Freddy left real estate to pursue his passion for flying, working for Trans World Airlines, which gave him some good years. In 2003, she earned a master’s degree, and by the end of the decade had finished her doctoral studies, writing a dissertation that examined the qualities that made people vulnerable to being stalked by their partners.Around the same time, she entered into a romantic relationship.