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In a family that could sometimes seem like the cast of a 1950s sitcom, my uncle Donald had a role of his own. He was the obnoxious one. And it’s true. Many of Donald’s adult traits—his determination, his short fuse–first displayed themselves in his childhood.” The person being described in this rather unflattering manner is none other than the mercurial Donald J Trump, now all set to occupy the White House once again. Describing him thus is his nephew Fred C Trump III, in his memoir All In The Family: The Trumps and How We Got This Way, published a few months before his uncle won a second presidential term. The memoir reinforces the unsavoury traits of both the family and uncle Donald, a hugely successful real estate Moghul, until he stepped into politics to turn things upside down. The Trump family, as also uncle Donald, are portrayed as being mean-spirited, despite the wealth and means at their command. There is also a sense of dysfunctionality that comes through, with the author recalling how people would often tell him, “The Trump name is toxic.” Neither the family nor Donald Trump emerge unscathed as Fred gently twists the knife into both—be it their general lack of empathy, their lack of scruples in seeking to usurp his and his sister Mary’s share of inheritance in their grandfather’s estate, and even their downright heartlessness as they seek to cut-off the medical insurance of Fred’s severely disabled son, William. “Of all the cruel, low-down, vicious, heartless things my own relatives could do to me, my wife and my children, this was worse than anything I could possibly imagine,” he writes. But it’s not merely the move to cut-off William’s insurance cover that will leave you slack-jawed. It’s also uncle Donald’s callous remarks when Fred went to meet him regarding depleting funds for William’s medical treatment. “He doesn’t recognise you. Maybe you should let him die and move down to Florida,” is what the uncle told his nephew. If uncle Donald comes across as cold-hearted, so do his siblings as they go along with his efforts to prevent the author’s family from getting its share of their grandfather’s estate. Fred writes of his uncle: “Cutting off our share of the family fortune didn’t seem to cause Donald a second of anxiety or guilt”. Sister Mary has already documented the Trump family’s dysfunctionality and uncle Donald’s personality in her own memoir, Too Much And Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man. Fred adds to the mix. Having seen uncle Donald from close quarters right since childhood during regular visits to his grandparents mansion in New York city, Fred’s portrayal of his uncle is of a man who was ruthlessly ambitious, churlish, odious, unscrupulous and not averse to speaking untruths to meet his ends. It’s no surprise that Donald Trump’s recent presidential campaign was also peppered with untruths—the most preposterous one being his claim that Haitian immigrants were eating people’s pets! That the world has seen Donald Trump display these characteristics in good measure since he came into the limelight—first as a flamboyant property tycoon, and then as the US President from 2017 to 2021—goes without saying. These personality traits had their origins in his upbringing, going by the memoir. Donald, the fourth of five children of family patriarch Frederick Trump and his Scottish wife Mary, learned early “he could get away with things even as a child”. His penchant for half-truths and outright lies also comes through as the author narrates episodes from his life long before he became the President. Fred writes it was at the New York Military Academy, a school that Donald Trump was packed off to by his father, hoping to instill some discipline in his recalcitrant son, that his uncle “transitioned from simply obnoxious to thoroughly brash”. Later, uncle Trump managed his admission to Ivy League business school Wharton despite his “spotty academic record” with help from grandpa who went along with him for the on-campus interview. The patriarch chatted up the admissions staff, mentioning his multifarious projects and hinting at the donations the school could get. Voila! Trump entered the portals of Wharton. The memoir also shares in great detail how uncle Donald managed to repeatedly dodge military service during the Vietnam war, getting five deferments, four for attending college and the final one for bone spurs. Again, it was his father who came to the rescue, arranging for him a certificate from a podiatrist, a tenant in one of his buildings, to certify that the youngster was suffering from bone spurs. “Bone spurs? No one in the family had ever heard of Donald’s bone spurs. No one had ever seen him hobbling. No one had ever heard him complain,” notes his nephew. And then adds caustically, “Donald had a get-out-of-war free card,” which was to later earn him the tag of “draft dodger” from his political rivals. Charges that the President-elect is also racist are alluded to in his use of the N-word when he found his car vandalised as a youngster. Blacks, without any proof whatsoever, were blamed by him. Fred, however, appears to equivocate in saying that in those days “people said all kinds of crude, thoughtless, prejudiced things”. The use of racially charged remarks, of course, was one of the hallmarks of Trump’s recent presidential campaign. The memoir also leaves you with an unmistakable sense of irony as far as Trump’s strident anti-immigration stance is concerned, given that he himself is the grandson of illegal German immigrants to the US. Trump has now reaffirmed his plans to go ahead with his mass deportation programme when he takes over the Oval Office in January. The nephew’s portrayal of the next US President as a mean, mendacious, transactional, self-serving person could be dismissed as the rant of an embittered man. Curiously, he remains in touch with his uncle and even attended his presidential inaugural for the first term. The world more or less already knows what Donald Trump embodies, as it waits for his second presidential tenure with bated breath for the upheavals in the offing.wild rift 0 percent 。

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Ohtani wins third MVP, while Judge takes his secondNEW YORK — Shohei Ohtani won his third Most Valuable Player Award and first in the National League, and Aaron Judge earned his second American League honor on Thursday. Ohtani was a unanimous MVP for the third time, receiving all 30 first-place votes and 420 points in voting by the Baseball Writers' Association of America. New York Mets shortstop Francisco Lindor was second with 263 points and Arizona second baseman Ketel Marte third with 229. Judge was a unanimous pick for the first time. Kansas City shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. got all 30 second-place votes for 270 points, and Yankees outfielder Juan Soto was third with 21 third-place votes and 229 points. Ohtani was unanimously voted the AL MVP in 2021 and 2023 as a two-way star for the Los Angeles Angels and finished second to Judge in 2022 voting. He didn't pitch in 2024 following elbow surgery and signed a record $700 million, 10-year contract with the Los Angeles Dodgers last December. Ohtani joined Frank Robinson for Cincinnati in 1961 and Baltimore in 1966 as the only players to win the MVP award in both leagues. He was the first player to twice become an unanimous MVP. He had combined with Atlanta outfielder Ronald Acuña Jr. in 2023 for the first year both MVPs were unanimous. Ohtani hit .310, stole 59 bases and led the NL with 54 homers and 130 RBIs exclusively as a designated hitter, becoming the first player with 50 or more homers and 50 or more stolen bases in a season. He helped the Dodgers to the World Series title, playing the final three games with a torn labrum in his left shoulder. "The ultimate goal from the beginning was to win a World Series, which we are able to accomplish," he said through a translator. "The next goal is for me to do it again and so right now I'm in the middle of rehab and working out and getting stronger." When Ohtani returns to the mound, could he win MVP and the Cy Young Award in the same year? "That would obviously be great, but right now my focus is just to get to get back healthy, come back stronger, get back on the mound and show everybody what I can do," Ohtani said. Ohtani became the first primary DH to win an MVP in a season that started with the revelation his longtime interpreter and friend, Ippei Mizuhara, had stolen nearly $17 million from the star to fund gambling. Ohtani is the 12th player with three or more MVPs, joining Barry Bonds (seven) and Jimmie Foxx, Joe DiMaggio, Stan Musial, Roy Campanella, Yogi Berra, Mickey Mantle, Mike Schmidt, Alex Rodriguez, Albert Pujols and Mike Trout (three each). Balloting was conducted before the postseason. Judge led the major leagues with 58 homers, 144 RBIs and 133 walks while hitting .322. Witt topped the big leagues with a .332 average, hitting 32 homers with 31 stolen bases and 109 RBIs. Soto batted .288 with 41 homers and 109 RBIs. When Judge won his first MVP award in 2022, he received 28 first-place votes while Ohtani got the other two. Judge had discussed the MVP award with Philadelphia's Bryce Harper, the NL winner in 2015 and '21. "I was telling him, `Man, I'm going to try to catch up to you with these MVPs here, man,'" Judge recalled. "He'd say, hopefully, he could stay a couple ahead of me, which I think he'll do." When Judge won his first MVP award in 2022, he received 28 first-place votes while Ohtani got the other two. He is the Yankees' 22nd MVP winner, four more than any other team. Judge was hitting .207 with six homers and 18 RBIs through April, then batted .352 with 52 homers and 126 RBIs in 127 games. "March and April were not my friend this year." Judge said. "Just keep putting in the work and things are going to change. You can't mope. You can't feel sorry for yourself. Especially in New York, nobody's going to feel sorry for you. So you just got to go out there and put up the numbers?" ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The St. Petersburg City Council reversed course Thursday on whether to spend more than $23 million to repair the hurricane-shredded roof of the Tampa Bay Rays' ballpark, initially voting narrowly for approval and hours later changing course. The reversal on fixing Tropicana Field came after the council voted to delay consideration of revenue bonds for a proposed new $1.3 billion Rays ballpark. Just two days before, the Pinellas County Commission postponed a vote on its share of the new stadium bonds, leaving that project in limbo. “This is a sad place. I'm really disappointed,” council chair Deborah Figg-Sanders said. “We won’t get there if we keep finding ways we can’t.” The Rays say the lack of progress puts the new stadium plan and the future of Tropicana Field in jeopardy. “I can't say I'm confident about anything,” Rays co-president Brian Auld told the council members. The Trop's translucent fiberglass roof was ripped to pieces on Oct. 9 when Hurricane Milton swept ashore just south of Tampa Bay. There was also significant water damage inside the ballpark, with a city estimate of the total repair costs pegged at $55.7 million. The extensive repairs cannot be finished before the 2026 season, city documents show. The Rays made a deal with the Yankees to play next season at 11,000-seat Steinbrenner Field, New York's spring training home across the bay in Tampa. The initial vote Thursday was to get moving on the roof portion of the repair. Once that's done, crews could begin working on laying down a new baseball field, fixing damaged seating and office areas and a variety of electronic systems — which would require another vote to approve money for the remaining restoration. The subsequent vote reversing funding for the roof repair essentially means the city and Rays must work on an alternative in the coming weeks so that Tropicana Field can possibly be ready for the 2026 season. The city is legally obligated to fix the roof. BRIEFLY PIRATES: Pittsburgh hired Matt Hague as its hitting coach, bringing him back to the team that drafted him in 2008. Hague replaces Andy Haines, who was fired after Pittsburgh finished in the bottom 10 in the majors in every significant statistical category last season, including runs (24th) and home runs (25th), while also striking out a club-record 1,504 times, second-most in the National League behind Colorado. 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