“Nobody has failed upward as consistently and spectacularly as the ostensible leader of the free world.”

—  Mary L. Trump , Too Much and Never Enough

Source: Too Much and Never Enough (2020), Ch. 14 A Civil Servant in Public Housing, p. 197.

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