Mary Trump Cautions Donald Trump Critics Not to ‘Overreact’

Mary Trump, the estranged niece and long-time critic of President-elect Donald Trump, has cautioned his critics not to “overreact” and instead be more considered in their responses to his actions.

She spoke out during an hour-long session on social media site X – formerly known as Twitter – admitting she spent the last year being “way too engaged” and needed to explore alternative ways to “mitigate the potential horrors.”

“This year is almost certainly going to be—I don’t want to say worse, right, I don’t want to go there—but more challenging than its predecessor,” Mary Trump said. She added she needs to “figure out how to negotiate the stress wars.”

“This past year, I was way too politically engaged. By that I don’t mean paying attention. We all need to pay attention. But I took so much of what happened this past year to heart, and it had an impact on me that was not a good one,” she said.

The 59-year-old suggested critics of her uncle need to move forward in a way that is not “debilitating” or “harmful.”

“How do we interpret what’s going on without making too much of it either for the good or the bad?” she posited. She then gave an example, which she said is a pattern that has continued for years.

“Donald would post something on Twitter or Truth Social or wherever that was absolutely insane. The response would be: ‘Finally, he’s losing his mind and it’s over because he’s crazy.’ You know, that happened for eight years,” she said.

She went on to say that her uncle would sometimes do something “legitimately horrible” but that “we would overreact and think it was the end of the world.”

“So, let’s just take a breath.”

Mary Trump’s calming words stand in stark contrast to her previous responses to her uncle’s actions in the highest office in the land.

As recently as last September she said Trump “has had severe psychiatric disorders for decades” and is now becoming “delusional,” as Breitbart News reported.

In December 2023 she called Trump a “cornered animal” and his “legal, financial, and political danger is increasing by the day, and his profound personality disorders make it impossible for him to care about anything but his own safety and security.”

Those attacks and more were all preceded by her book, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, that was published in 2020 and sought to demolish Trump’s aura in the eyes of the public and his supporters alike.

In an interview with tax payer-funded National Public Radio, she said preventing his reelection is a “life and death” matter.

File/Mary Trump’s book about U.S. President Donald Trump on display at a book store on July 14, 2020 in the Brooklyn borough in New York City. Although President Trump litigated to stop the release of his niece’s tell-all book, a New York Supreme Court ruled it could be published. (Stephanie Keith/Getty)

Mary Trump was also asked if the incoming president planned to attend late Democratic President Jimmy Carter’s funeral.

Trump told reporters on New Year’s Eve he planned to travel to D.C. next week to attend Carter’s services.

Mary set out the Carter family should uninvite him.

“I sincerely hope that they tell him not to come. That’s the game that we need to be playing in this country right now, as Democrats,” she said.

“Tell him he’s a disgrace, we don’t want him there.”

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