@shekinahcancook. Of course they didn’t have a functional childhood. Fred was a nightmare. But that didn’t cause Trump to be a a malignant narcissist. They sent him to military school as a young teen because he was beyond their ability to understand or control.
Better nurturing might have blunted some of Trump’s excesses, but probably not. Psychopaths can have near perfect childhoods, yet they are still monstrous psychopaths.
We have to deal with reality. Trump is mentally ill.