Trump’s niece reveals Putin told her ‘pathetic’ uncle ‘exactly what he wants to hear’ as she sends President powerful message

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet for their summit on the war in Ukraine, at U.S. Air Base on August 15, 2025, in Anchorage, Alaska, United States© Getty Images

Donald Trump’s niece has slammed her uncle as a “pathetic creature” as she laid into the president for allowing Vladimir Putin to easily “manipulate him”.

Mary Trump, the daughter of Donald’s older brother Fred Jr, accused the US president of being “incompetent and unprepared” when it comes to dealing with the Russian leader following his high-stakes Alaska summit with Putin last week. In her latest YouTube video, Mary noted that Putin appeared to be behind her uncle’s recent plans to put an end to mail-in voting in the US.

“Apparently at their meeting in Alaska on Friday, Putin ramped up Donald’s fears about the integrity of our voting systems,” Mary said. It comes as Trump’s niece says he’s ‘declining rapidly’ after diagnosis as she claims he’s ‘losing it every day’.

Mary Trump speaks during a panel discussion at Hay Festival on May 26, 2025 in Hay-on-Wye, Wales.© Getty Images

“A quick reminder, although the Republicans would have us believe that voter fraud is a serious problem in this country that requires extreme measures, it’s a rare phenomenon that has had no impact whatsoever on the outcome of our elections,” Mary added. She pointed to a Brennan Center report that concluded its more likely that an American will be struck by lightning than impersonate another voter at the polls.

In an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity following his meeting with Putin, Trump said that the Russian leader had told him the 2020 election was “rigged” because of mail-in voting.

Launching into a lengthy rant about the voting method, Donald repeated Putin’s warnings to him, saying: “Vladimir Putin said something one of the most interesting things. He said, ‘Your election was rigged because you have mail-in voting.’ He said, ‘Mail-in voting every election.’ He said, ‘No country has mail-in voting. It’s impossible to have mail-in voting and have honest elections.’

President Donald Trump (R) and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands at the end of a press conference at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson on August 15, 2025 in Anchorage, Alaska.© Getty Images

“And he said that to me, it was very interesting because we talked about 2020. He said, ‘You won that election by so much. And that’s how he got it.’ He said, ‘And if you would have won, we wouldn’t have had a war. you’d have all these millions of people alive now instead of dead.’ And he said, ‘And you lost it because of mail-in voting. It was a rigged election, but mail-in voting.’”

“So amazing that after all these decades, Putin knows just exactly what to say to influence the little guy,” Mary noted in relation to Donald’s remarks. “Yes, we should absolutely take Vladimir Putin at his word and trust him implicitly and completely when he tells us he is deeply concerned about the millions of lives that have been lost,” she added sarcastically.

Mary continued: “Let me put it another way. Vladimir Putin doesn’t care at all about the hundreds of thousands of innocent Ukrainian people he has murdered. And here’s the thing, Donald doesn’t care anything about it either because once again, Putin is telling Donald exactly what he wants to hear about how great and successful he is, what a winner he is.”

She claimed that it “should be blindingly clear to all of us that Putin is manipulating Donald as he always has.”

The president’s niece then noted how Donald’s former top adviser, Fiona Hill, revealed how Putin had used the issue of mail-in voting to “blatently” manipulate him.

Appearing on CBS’s Face the Nation, Hill said: “Putin wants to sew chaos in the American electoral system ahead of the midterms So, of course, he’s laid into this whole issue of mail-in voting.”

She added: “President Trump asserted in his Fox News interview that there are no countries in the world that allow mail-in voting. Well, Russia allows mail-in voting. And if everybody wants to go out and look, they can look for themselves. In 2020, President Vladimir Putin signed into law Russians being able to vote by mail and also on the internet.

U.S. President Donald Trump (R) and Russian President Vladimir Putin leave following a press conference at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson on August 15, 2025 in Anchorage, Alaska.© Getty Images

“And more than 30 other countries also allow some forms of mail in voting. So, it’s just not true that other countries, including Russia, don’t use this. It’s a pure blatant piece of manipulation.”

In response, Mary continued: “Get that, Russia has mai-in voting, has voting via internet, and Vladimir Putin, again telling Donald exactly what he wanted to hear, said, ‘No, no, no country on the planet has mail-in voting and neither should the United States of America.’

“Which just tells us yet again how unprepared, how incompetent not only is Donald Trump, but is his team because they should know. They should lnow whether or not what Putin is telling their boss is true or not.”

Mary then moved on to criticizing Donald’s “hostile redistricting takeover” as she noted how he has been “ramping up pressure on Texas and Indiana Republicans to take up redistricting ahead of the midterms.”

“A lot of Republicans, for reasons that escape me, are afraid of the pathetic creature who is Donald Trump,” Mary said. She concluded: “They share his agenda, these are people like Donald who want to cling to power no matter how corrupt, no matter what they need to do in order to cling to power.

“So of course, of course, they will willingly give up any pretense of believing in democracy. They will willingly impede anybody who objects to their illegal unconstitutional power grab. Why? Because like Donald, they are small, pathetic men who know they can’t win legitimately.”