Mary Trump Issues Dire Prediction About Second Donald Trump Term

Former President Donald Trump's estranged niece, Mary Trump, issued a dire prediction on Saturday about what a possible second Trump term would look like for America.

Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, has been shown to be leading President Joe Biden in five out of the six key swing states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, and Pennsylvania, according to a poll by The New York Times and Siena College that was published last month. Multiple national polls also show the former president leading Biden despite Trump's legal troubles, as he faces a wave of indictments at both the state and federal levels. Trump has maintained his innocence in all cases against him.

In an interview with CNN on Saturday, Mary Trump, known for her outspoken criticism of her uncle, discussed what a second Trump term could look like, adding that it would be "absolutely disastrous."

"It would be the end of American democracy. America would become a leading autocratic nation in the world and we would be, therefore, emboldening countries like some of those you mentioned earlier, North Korea, China, but also the pro-autocratic tendencies of countries that haven't entirely lost their way, but are well on their way to, like Hungary and Turkey," she said.

Newsweek has reached out to Trump via email for comment.

Mary Trump also emphasized how dangerous it would be if Trump was successful in gaining a second term.

"It would be absolutely disastrous not just for the future of American democracy, but the future of the Western alliance and global liberal democracies, so I don't think we can overstate just how incredibly dangerous a second Trump administration would be, and we need to start preparing the ground for making those arguments now," she said.

This also comes as Trump's use of language has been under criticism as he previously compared his political enemies to "vermin" who needed to be exposed at a speech in New Hampshire in November.

While being asked about Trump's use of the term "vermin," Mary Trump said on Saturday, "It's all a piece with how he's always behaved. The difference now, of course, is that his target audience is just getting bigger and bigger. And the amount of power he has is increasing. So look where we are. He uses that kind of rhetoric because he knows it plays with his base, but he also uses it because he doesn't care about other human beings."

She added: "We cannot afford to continue to place people like that in power because the stakes are just too high, and the consequences would just be too devastating."

Mary Trump's warning follows notable former Trump aides who have also spoken out against the possibility of a second term for Trump, citing a multitude of reasons including the 91 criminal charges against him.

In November, Trump's former chief of staff John Kelly, a retired four-star general, questioned the amount of support Trump has been able to gain despite his legal woes.

"What's going on in the country that a single person thinks this guy would still be a good president when he's said the things he's said and done the things he's done?" Kelly said in an interview with The Washington Post. "It's beyond my comprehension that he has the support he has."

In response to the criticism the former president has received, Trump spokesman Steven Cheung told the Post at the time that "these media w*****are always looking for their next grift."

"Whether it's book deals or cable news contracts—because they know their entire worth as human beings revolve around talking about President Trump," Cheung added. "They clearly don't own any mirrors because if they did, they would not be able to look at themselves every day knowing what they're doing is hurting the country. These charlatans are disgusting and should be wholly ignored."