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His struggle with alcohol grew worse after he quit the family real estate company to pursue his passion of becoming an airplane pilot — a decision Fred Trump, Sr., considered a “betrayal,” Mary Trump writes.
Donald and Fred Trump, Sr., teamed up to belittle her father over his split from the family business and denigrated him as “a bus driver in the sky,” according to Mary Trump.
She recounts one incident when Donald Trump came to visit her father’s home in Marblehead Harbor, Mass.
“You know, dad’s really sick of you wasting your life,” Donald Trump told his brother over dinner, according to the book. “He says he’s embarrassed by you. Dad’s right about you: you’re nothing but a glorified bus driver.”
The night Fred Trump, Jr., died from a heart attack, his family had sent him to a hospital alone and no one came to visit, according to Mary Trump.
Donald Trump, meanwhile, went to see a movie, she writes.