Trump Sent to 'Reform School' As Teen for Bullying, Niece's Book Says

[CousinIT]

https://www.newsweek.com/trump-sent-reform-school-teen-bullying-nieces-book-says-1516370

Long before he became a president notorious for mocking people, it was Donald Trump's penchant for "name-calling and teasing kids too young to fight back" that helped land him at the New York Military Academy, according to a niece's tell-all book due out next week.

Trump often has spoken fondly of his time at NYMA and the structure that it provided him, and has even compared it to actual military service. It's been reported that Trump was sent to the boarding school for misbehavior or "mischief" as Trump described in his own book The Art of the Deal.

But Mary Trump, the daughter of Trump's late brother, shed new light on why the president ended up at the regimented high school as a teen in her book, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created The World's Most Dangerous Man. She also recorded his family's response to his time there.

"Finally, by 1959, Donald's misbehavior—fighting, bullying, arguing with teachers—had gone too far," Mary Trump writes.

The Trump patriarch, Fred Trump, was on the board of trustees for the Kew-Forest prep school that Donald Trump was attending.

"Fred didn't mind Donald's acting out, but it had become intrusive and time-consuming for him," Mary Trump wrote. "When one of his fellow board members at Kew-Forest recommended sending Donald to New York Military Academy to rein him in, Fred went along with it."

"Fred had more important things to do than deal with Donald," she added.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Fred outsourced parenting, it sounds like. . . . nt

[Blue Owl]

2. Didn't turn out so well for the little piece of shit

n/t

[thesquanderer]

13. It was good for the kids he was bullying at Kew-Forest prep school, though. n/t

[brooklynite]

3. Through the 1980s the NEW YORK TIMES ran ads for a variety of schools for "troubled students"

NYMA was always there.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

4. Nothing has changed apparently.

Because he still is that bully to this day.

[Newest Reality]

5. Well, it figures.

He was "that kid" and you all know what I mean if you weren't that kid.

[JHB]

6. Well, it's not like the family had any military tradition he wanted to uphold.

Wait, make that "has". It still applies to the whole damn clan.

[octoberlib]

11. The Trump family military tradition was draft dodging.

[lame54]

7. It didn't take

[fleur-de-lisa]

8. Can we dig Fred up and put him on trial for bad parenting

which ultimately led to the unleashing of the TrumPlague on the world?

[safeinOhio]

9. I went to a military high school in the 60s.

That was pretty much it. Not all but most. I remember classmates that were given the choice by a judge to attend. Then there were the guys that were just dumped there to get em out of the parents hair. A few had good reasons. Turned out good for me. Struggled all my life in school until I found out I was ADD. First time I ever got As in school, 6 or 7 kids in a class did it for me. I remember it being pretty Mid-Evil. If you got too many demerits they would beat them off. You got a choice between a razor strap or a buggy whip. Being on the football team and 6 foot 3 and 210 pounds I never got any demerits.

[octoberlib]

10. Didn't Trump hit a teacher? His ass should have been expelled.

I know he threw rocks at the next door neighbor.

[bucolic_frolic]

12. Well, yeah, that goes along with antisocial personality disorder

Who could have guessed?

[paleotn]

14. The worst family ever....

produced the worst president ever. Rome's Julio-Claudian dynasty has nothing on this hive of scum and villainy.

[czarjak]

15. Fred could afford it.

[Wounded Bear]

16. Obviously didn't learn anything...