Donald Trump’s niece has dished on how her family’s warped dynamics led to the president being “so needy.”

Mary L. Trump, 60, discussed “why Donald is the way he is, why he is so enamored with authoritarian dictatorial monsters, why he’s so damaged and so needy and so grasping” on the Monday edition of her show, Mary Trump Live.

The psychologist and anti-Trump commentator pointed to Trump’s giddy reaction to being handed a “completely made-up” peace prize by FIFA on Friday as proof of “how thirsty he is for recognition.”

“Why does Donald need meaningless gestures like that to make him feel better about himself?” she asked, before identifying Trump’s father, Fred Trump—her grandfather—as the main cause.

“My grandfather was a patriarchal authoritarian sociopath. You know, that has an im

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