Is tRump's adult behavior the result of poor parenting, [View all]
his environment or is it psychological?
He is essentially the same he was as a boy and he will tell you that himself.
"He had a reputation for saying anything that came into his head, said Donald Kass, 70, a retired agronomist who was a schoolmate. When Trump misidentified Rocca, the pro wrestler, Kass recalled, We would laugh at him and tell him he was wrong, and hed say he was right. The next time, he would make the same mistake, and it would be the same thing all over again.
Donald was known to be a bully, I was a little kid, and my parents didnt want me beaten up, said Burnham, 65, a business consultant in Texas.
Once when she left Dennis in a playpen in a back yard adjoining the Trumps property, Martha Burnham returned to find Donald throwing rocks at her son. She saw Donald standing at the fence, Dennis Burnham said, using the playpen for target practice.
Near the end of seventh grade, Fred discovered Donalds knives and was infuriated to learn about his trips into the city. He decided his sons behavior warranted a radical change. In the months before eighth grade, Fred Trump enrolled Donald at the New York Military Academy, a boarding school 70 miles from Jamaica Estates.
DAntonio, the biographer who wrote Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success, said Fred Trumps decision was a very severe response to a kid who hadnt gotten arrested and wasnt involved in drinking and drugging. He was essentially a smart aleck.
This was a profound rejection of Donald, he said.
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