'He is an incompetent loser': Mary Trump warns president growing more dangerous as he's 'losing it'

Mary L. Trump, a noted psychologist, argued that Donald Trump is ill-equipped to handle the humiliation of being seen as an 'incompetent loser' — and warned he would take everyone down with him without a second thought. "Donald has never been loved, and the thing he's most wanted in his life is to be loved. That's a void he can't fill. He'll just keep putting his name on things. He'll get richer, he'll get more power. Nothing is going to make him feel better."

Trump, speaking on the Joy Reid Show, suggested that her uncle's nihilism prevents him from recognizing anyone's existence beyond his own, a trait she called deeply dangerous. Reid, for her part, predicted that once Trump is gone, his name will be stripped from every institution, just as it was from the Kennedy Center. "Those who oppose his fascist regime want his name removed from everything. We want him to disappear from history. We want him to be erased from history," Reid said.

The 61-year-old reasoned that plastering his name on everything is Trump's way of pretending things are not as bad as they are, a bid to bolster a fragile ego and avoid confronting the hollowness behind his bluster. "He was never a self-made man. He was never a savvy, brilliant entrepreneur or real estate guy. There is this sense of accelerating desperation that he put his imprint on everything as a way of staving off his mortality," she continued.

The 'Too Much and Never Enough' author said the depth of Trump's narcissistic wounds runs deep. "He's never been more terrified than he is right now because he's losing control, and he's also losing control of people who were his supporters, and he knows it. He has spent his entire adult life protecting himself from the reality of who he is. That's becoming increasingly difficult," Trump said — before calling for the return of "money stolen" by Trump and his children, and using it to erase his name from institutions.

The president's niece appeared to be referring to a recent trend in Trump's second term of attaching his name and image to a host of institutions and official products — the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts arguably the most prominent among them. Last month, a federal judge ordered Trump's name stripped from the center following a lawsuit filed by Rep. Joyce Beatty (R-OH), an ex officio board member. His most recent move came with the announcement of a commemorative passport bearing his name, signature, and image, along with the message: "Welcome, but be good."