Donald Trump’s lesbian niece, clinical psychologist Mary Trump, has accused her uncle of being a “f**king loser” as a result of last week’s tariff debacle, which she said might have been the market manipulation and a “disastrous, ignorant, and quite frankly idiotic” trade war that has pushed the country to the brink of economic collapse. She also explained why her uncle is so irresponsible with financial issues, something that she said was rooted in his childhood.

The president recently announced a 90-day pause on reciprocal tariffs for every country except China after the many he implemented sent the global markets into chaos. His across-the-board 10% tariff is still in place.

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“The man is a menace because he is at the end of the day so profoundly stupid, weak, and degraded,” Mary Trump wrote her blog. “He knows it, too, in the terrifying depths of his unconscious, because, in order to save face and trick people into thinking he’s a tough guy, he worsened an already very bad situation by allowing the 125% tariff against Chinese goods to stand. This is yet more ostensibly inexplicable economic suicide.”

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But she doesn’t think her uncle’s abrupt flip-flop was an accident. “I think I have enough of a grasp of basic economic principles to recognize market manipulation when I see it,” she said. “From where I’m standing, Donald Trump just manipulated the markets–and he did so by caving, by giving in, by being the abject loser he has always tried to pretend he is not.”

“Are we supposed to believe that Donald Trump changed his mind?” she said. “That he suddenly realized he was taking this country down a self-destructive path? Are we truly supposed to believe that Donald of all people came to his senses and reached the conclusion that he was wrong?”

She brought up two messages he wrote on social media amid the chaos, one declaring, “Be cool, everything is going to work out well,” and another saying, “THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY.”

“Just four hours after he told everybody it was a great time to buy cheap stocks, he folded to mounting pressure, walked back his tariffs and instead imposed, a substantially lower tariff across the board—10% for 90 days,” Mary Trump explained. “Is this what he meant when he said everything is going to work out? Perhaps, because shortly after the announcement, the market skyrocketed as if somebody had lit a fuse under it.”

“Have we ever seen a president or anyone, for that matter, manipulate global stocks in this way and in such a ludicrously short period of time?”

But Mary Trump was also quick to clarify that she does not believe her uncle is smart enough to accomplish any of this on his own, saying it was “much more likely” that “people closest to him recognized an opportunity to exploit the catastrophic global economic panic Donald had single-handedly created with his breathtakingly moronic tariff war.”

The president, she said, is “bad with money… because his father threw so much of it at him over the course of his entire childhood and adulthood—without condition—that he never had to learn how to deal with it properly.”

Mary Trump said she’s also bad with money but that “I do not have to endanger the global economy in order to prove that I’m good at something at which I am objectively terrible.”

She also mocked him for bragging about his negotiating skills, saying he “seems to be the only person who doesn’t know” that “you cannot blackmail somebody successfully unless you have the upper hand.”

Another important point, she said, is that just because the market rose again does not mean things are okay.

“People have been suffering. Our trade alliances have frayed perhaps [beyond] the point of repair. Global trade has been rocked in ways that will reverberate for a very long time. Essential products are more expensive. Inflation is on the rise. America’s reputation has been set on fire. Due to the almost unthinkable amount of chaos and uncertainty Donald has injected into the system, people panicked into making financial decisions that will likely harm, at least in the short-term. The harm has been done.”

She slammed her uncle’s claim that he did it out of his willingness to be flexible since “he is utterly inflexible and he has constructed his life in order never to have to bend to anybody else’s will.”

“The only explanation here is there was some ulterior motive,” Mary Trump said, “which I do not believe originated with Donald, who knows nothing about trade negotiations, trade imbalances, the global economy, or macroeconomics. He doubled and quadrupled down on his tariffs because he only understands dominance and his need for dominance is a way for him to compensate for his being such a weak, pathetic loser.”

He unintentionally created an opportunity that somebody else recognized, just as they recognized how easily manipulable and useful Donald Trump can be. Odds are that that person simply whispered in his ear, ‘“Hey, Donald, if you’re willing to break the law and engage in a little market manipulation, you can get even richer.”’

“I don’t think Donald crashed the market on purpose, but given his history of corruption and market manipulation, it shouldn’t surprise us that he was willing to go along with this scheme.”

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