Mary Trump shared that she quietly got married last year.
In a recent Substack post published Sunday, Jan. 11, President Donald Trump’s estranged niece, 60, wrote that she and her wife — whose name she did not disclose — married in October “in front of a small group of some of our family and closest friends.”
“Today, I continue to be stunned by my greatest good fortune,” Mary wrote. “I am married not only to the love of my life but to my best friend. Because I opened myself to the possibility that was held out to me almost a year ago, my other relationships have deepened in new and unexpected ways. I am happy in a way I never would have dared imagine.”
The Who Could Ever Love You author, a longtime critic of her uncle Donald, 79, added that she originally chose to keep the marriage private for reasons she did not explain. But she said the “escalation of the horrors we experienced as a country” in recent months reinforced for her how important it is to make room for “light and hope and love.”
“We must always let it in,” she wrote.
In her 2020 memoir Too Much and Never Enough, Mary also described spending years keeping her sexuality private from her family. She recalled that at one point she had planned to marry the woman she loved on a beach in Maui, but the trip was canceled after her grandfather, Fred Trump, was rushed to the hospital days before he died.
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She also wrote that, a couple of years later, a conversation with her grandmother about Princess Diana’s funeral underscored why she kept her personal life guarded at the time.
More recently, Mary — a mother to daughter Avary Linden Trump from a previous marriage — has referred to herself as the “black sheep of the family.”
Speaking during a panel at the Hay Festival in May 2025, she criticized Donald’s unwillingness to change. “DonaldDonaldDonald is the only person I’ve ever met who’s never evolved, which is dangerous by the way,” she said, per The Guardian. “Never choose as your leader somebody who’s incapable of evolving — that should be one of the lessons we’ve learned, for sure.”
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In a November interview with The Daily Beast, Mary said she believed Donald was beginning to show signs of cognitive decline, comparing what she sees now to what she observed in her grandfather before his death.
“There are times I look at him and I see my grandfather,” she said. “I see that same look of confusion. I see that he does not always seem to be oriented to time and place. His short-term memory seems to be deteriorating.”
