Mary Trump spoke about visiting her uncle in the White House in 2017 a few months after the inauguration and said he “already seemed very strained by the pressures.”
“I just remember thinking, ‘He seems tired. He seems like this is not what he signed up for,'” she told Stephanopoulos in an interview clip that aired Tuesday.
Asked what she would say if she were to visit him in the Oval Office today, Mary Trump replied, “resign.”
She writes that some of the book is based on her own memory, and in parts she reconstructed some dialogue based on what she was told by some members of the family and others, as well as legal documents, bank statements, tax returns and other documents.
She also accused Donald Trump’s father of creating a toxic family dynamic that explains the President’s behavior, telling Stephanopoulos she sees “parallels” between how the family operated and how the country is operating.
“I saw firsthand what focusing on the wrong things, elevating the wrong people can do — the collateral damage that can be created by allowing somebody to live their lives without accountability,” she said. “If I can do anything to change the narrative and to tell the truth, I need to do it. Because I don’t believe the American people had the entire truth four years ago.”
The President has not immediately commented on his niece’s interview with ABC, though last week, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany called the tell-all a “book of falsehoods.”
One member of the President’s immediate family, however, appeared to reference Mary Trump in a tweet Wednesday morning.
“Every family has one …,” tweeted Eric Trump, the President’s son, nodding to a familiar expression about black sheep.
CNN’s Jeremy Herb, Brian Stelter and Sara Murray contributed to this report.