Donald Trump’s lesbian and clinical psychologist niece, Mary Trump, described how her uncle was “humiliated” on the world stage this week after all of his saber-rattling about Greenland ended with just “a framework of a future deal” on the subject. She then tied his belligerent behavior from this past week to his childhood, where he was taught that “life is a zero-sum game: there can only be one winner, only one person on top.”

“The one thing Donald has always feared most is to be seen as a loser and the humiliation that comes with that,” she wrote on her Substack, describing how his much-derided speech at the World Economic Forum this week showed “the degree to which he is psychologically, emotionally, and cognitively unfit to lead the most powerful country on the planet.”

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This past weekend, Donald Trump escalated his threats against Greenland, an autonomous territory that’s a part of Denmark, a NATO member state. World leaders feared that he would invade Greenland, ending the alliance between Western Europe and North America that helped create peace between those nations in the decades since World War II.

But after pushing for the U.S. acquisition of Greenland and finding out that no one liked the idea – not even his Republican base – Donald Trump backed off this week. He claimed he got a deal that could lead to U.S. ownership of Greenland, but then admitted that he walked away with a “framework of a future deal with respect to Greenland” that does not involve U.S. ownership.

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Donald Trump also gave a long speech at the World Economic Forum this week, full of personal grievances, where he mixed up Greenland and Iceland several times. Mary Trump noted that the speech was defined by “his contempt for NATO and his sense that he is owed something.”

Her uncle argued that NATO would be safer if the U.S. controlled Greenland – although he could not explain why that was necessary since the U.S. already has a military base in Greenland – and Mary Trump said that he just can’t understand that an alliance like NATO will probably do more to keep the member states safe than U.S. territorial acquisition would because he can’t understand the concept of cooperating with others due to how his father raised him.

“But throughout the course of his entire life, everything has always been his for the taking,” she explained. “Donald has wholly embraced my grandfather’s philosophy that life is a zero-sum game: there can be only one winner, only one person on top. In his worldview, alliances and friendships simply do not exist or, to the extent they do, should be met with contempt. As far as Donald is concerned, anybody who is willing to work with somebody else—or any country that is willing to work with another country—to advance an agenda that promotes the common good is a loser.”

“We do not need any more proof that Donald is a deeply psychiatrically disordered man, but if we did, more evidence can be found every day in his outbursts, his hypersomnia, his alarming lack of impulse control, and his increasingly obvious deviance and corruption,” she wrote.

Mary Trump also pointed out that one of the lines from Donald Trump’s speech that has been getting a lot of attention – “I don’t have to use force; I don’t want to use force; I won’t use force” – isn’t exactly as reassuring as many people in the media are saying it is. In the context of how her uncle communicates, it was a threat, not a promise to not use force, she wrote.

“Donald’s message is unmistakable: he wants Greenland, he believes he deserves it, and he will obtain it one way or another. He has said he will take it ‘the easy way or the hard way,'” she wrote, adding that the media’s interpretation of that line as part of “the herculean efforts undertaken over the last decade to normalize his increasingly abnormal behavior.”

The bottom line, for Mary Trump, is that this isn’t just her uncle’s humiliation, but America’s: “his humiliation is ours.”

“The rest of the world doesn’t see Donald as the problem. Our allies lay the blame squarely at the feet of an American electorate that, with full knowledge of Donald’s incompetence, psychological unfitness, and megalomania, put him back in charge; a judicial branch, with the corrupt Supreme Court as its back-stop, that granted him virtually complete immunity and continues to expand the reach of his imperial presidency; and a legislative branch that has ceded its own Constitutional authority.”

“Donald may be the one threatening and insulting our closest allies; he may be the one giving the orders, but it is, rightly, America that the rest of the world condemns.”

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