Mary Trump Describes ‘Weird’ Christmas Gifts She Used To Get From Her Uncle | EUROtoday

In the spirit of the season, Mary Trump took a lighthearted look again on her childhood household Christmas gatherings and reminisced on the peculiar presents she used to obtain from Donald Trump and his spouse on the time, the late Ivana Trump.

“Christmas with the Trumps was not my favorite time as a child, but it did not lack for entertainment,” she mentioned in a video uploaded Sunday to her YouTube channel, Mary Trump Media.

She mentioned issues obtained “interesting” in 1977 after her uncle had married Ivana, a mannequin, and he or she joined the festivities.

Mary Trump opened her first current from the couple, “and it was a box of underwear.”

“Yes, it was a three-pack of underwear, retail $12, from Bloomingdale’s,” she mentioned. “It was a very exciting moment, and it just kind of got weirder from there.”

“The next year, I got a shoe,” she continued. “Singular. A shoe.”

It was a gold lamé shoe with a four-inch heel full of exhausting sweet, she recalled.

“It occurred to me at some point that it was probably the door prize or party favor from some luncheon she had attended, and she thought, yeah, why not give it to that kid,” mentioned Mary Trump, who would have been 13 on the time.

That similar yr, Mary’s brother, Fred Trump III, acquired a leather-bound journal, she recalled.

“I was actually a little jealous, because it was really nice, right?” she mentioned. “Until we figured out that it wasn’t a journal, it was a calendar-year journal. And it was from two years earlier. So it wasn’t even something that he could use.”

It was then, Mary mentioned, that she and Fred began a contest to see who would obtain the “worst present” from the Trumps every Christmas.

The gold shoe was her favourite of all time, she mentioned. The following yr, as a 14-year-old, she obtained what she thinks was a regifted present basket containing a tin of sardines, crackers and olives. The basket additionally gave the impression to be lacking an merchandise — which she guesses was the caviar.

Today, getting bizarre presents from her uncle is now not within the playing cards. Mary Trump, a psychologist, has been a vocal critic of Donald for years, publishing a number of books concerning the household dynamics that led to his narcissistic persona and authoritarian management fashion.

And she supplied a phrase of recommendation to gift-givers in every single place.

“If you’re going to buy somebody something that comes in pairs, like shoes or socks, give that person both of them,” she urged.

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