Mary Trump Slams Media's 'Dangerous' Interpretations Of Her Uncle's 'Gibberish'

Mary Trump has accused legacy media organizations of normalizing former President Donald Trump and injecting meaning into his increasingly incoherent statements, and warned of its “dangerous” effects.

The Republican nominee has fumbled through speech after speech on the campaign trail, delivering a stream of gaffes and word salad rants. Some in the media have vigorously sounded the alarm about his mental acuity, while others, such as The New York Times, have been accused of “sane-washing” the former president’s ramblings.

“The push to normalize Donald is breathtaking,” his niece Mary Trump, an author and psychologist, said on PBS’s “Amanpour and Company” Tuesday.

“It’s as if the legacy media has decided that its job is not to report what he’s saying, but to translate it for us,” she added. “The problem is twofold. One, they’re not telling us that’s what they’re doing. They’re reporting it as if these are the things Donald is saying coherently.”

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