Mary Trump Makes Bad Prediction for Donald Trump

Former President Donald Trump's estranged niece, Mary Trump, made a prediction on Friday about what the 2024 election could look like for her uncle.

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 journalist and political commentator, Molly Jong-Fast, on Friday, Mary Trump, known for her outspoken criticism of her uncle, discussed what the 2024 election results could look like for Trump, predicting that he will lose the election. The interview was published on Mary Trump's personal Substack, The Good in Us by Mary L. Trump.

"So fun. Molly Jong-Fast and I had a BLAST talking about why Donald will LOSE in 2024 – and what he really thought about my immigrant grandmother," Mary Trump wrote on X, formerly Twitter.

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Speaking on why Trump could lose the election Jong-Fast said, "I think people are done with him, you have just not a compelling message to swing voters. His people are very red pilled, but they've always been red pilled. I just don't know how you grow this electorate."

Mary Trump went on to say that the upcoming election will be the "most intense" as it will be, in her view, the "last chance" at democracy.

"How are you going to negotiate what will undoubtedly be the most intense election year we have ever lived through? Does Trumpism, you ask me, outlast Donald? This is the last gasp of white supremacy and they are going to fight like cornered animals. But it is also our last chance, I think, to have a true democracy which this country has never been," Mary Trump said.

Mary Trump's new prediction comes after in an interview with CNN earlier this month she discussed what a second Trump term could look like, warning 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.

Donald Trump and his supporters make similar claims about Biden and the stakes if the current president wins again in 2024. The former president routinely says that the country will collapse without his leadership, and his supporters accuse Biden and Democrats of authoritarianism.

In the CNN interview, Mary Trump also emphasized how dangerous it would be if her uncle was successful in securing 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.

Relatedly, Donald 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. Many critics compared the remark to Nazi rhetoric leading up to World War II.

More recently, Republican 2024 presidential candidate Nikki Haley also warned last week that a second Trump term would bring "chaos."

In an interview with ABC News' This Week with co-anchor Jonathan Karl on Sunday, Haley spoke about the former president, warning that "there is a lot at stake for our country." She said that Americans don't want another Biden-Trump rematch.

"I agree with a lot of Trump's policies. I think he was the right president at the right time. But looking at the situation now, our country is in disarray. The world is on fire and chaos follows him. We can't have a country in chaos for four more years or we won't survive it," Haley, who also served as ambassador to the United Nations in the Trump administration, said.