TL;DR

• Mary Trump slammed Donald Trump for “ignoring” Capitol officers harmed or killed during the Jan. 6 attack.
• She says Trump and the GOP attempt to rewrite history and deny the violence of that day.
• In her Substack essay, she argues the insurrection stemmed from Trump’s refusal to accept his 2020 loss.
• Mary Trump says Republicans now celebrate insurrectionists while abandoning affected officers.
• She urges Americans to preserve the memory and consequences of Jan. 6.

Mary Trump Blasts Her Uncle for ‘Erasing’ Capitol Officers Hurt or Killed on Jan. 6

Five years after the January 6 attack, Donald Trump’s lesbian niece and longtime critic Mary Trump is calling out the former president with renewed fire—and this time, she’s taking aim at his refusal to acknowledge the officers who suffered or died defending the U.S. Capitol. In a blistering Substack essay published on the anniversary, she accuses her uncle of orchestrating “chaos” and “violence,” then trying to bury the wreckage left behind.

Mary Trump, a clinical psychologist who has been unsparing in her assessments of the Trump family’s dysfunction, said the former president and his allies are actively working to rewrite the events of Jan. 6—either portraying it as a positive uprising or pretending it didn’t happen at all. She argues that the attack only occurred because Donald Trump could not accept losing the 2020 election to Joe Biden, a contest he dropped by nearly eight million votes.

“Donald and the Trump regime desperately want to pretend January 6 was a positive thing, or that it never happened,” she wrote, adding that his inability to accept reality birthed the so-called “big lie” and fueled the mob that stormed the Capitol. The attack left five people dead and countless more injured, including the officers she says her uncle “spared no thought at all for.”

Calling Out the GOP’s Amnesia

Mary Trump reserved some of her sharpest criticism for the Republican Party, accusing its leaders of abandoning the very officers who defended them. She notes the “trauma” experienced by Capitol police was compounded by a government that quickly turned its back once the political winds shifted.

“Now, the Republican Party acts as if none of it happened,” she wrote. “It is as if those police officers did not risk their lives, did not suffer grievous injuries, did not have their lives and careers upended.”

Her message is clear: pretending the attack was heroic doesn’t just sanitize history—it erodes democracy. And she’s not buying the GOP’s attempt to rebrand insurrectionists as patriots while erasing the sacrifices of the officers who stood in their path.

A Long-Standing Rift, Now Sharpened

This isn’t Mary Trump’s first time publicly scorning her uncle’s leadership. She’s famously labeled him “deeply ignorant” and “cruel,” and after Jan. 6 originally called for him to be barred from ever holding office again. Her 2024 memoir detailed years of dysfunction, emotional manipulation, and the cultivation of grievance within the Trump family—grievances she believes now drive his political rhetoric.

But her latest piece reads as less of a family feud and more of a plea to the public: remember what happened, and resist efforts to normalize it. She warns that the nation’s collective memory has been dulled by political spin, corporate media inertia, and constant revisionism.

Why Her Voice Resonates for LGBTQ Communities

Mary Trump’s commentary carries weight not only because she’s a Trump family insider, but because she’s one of the most prominent lesbian political voices calling out authoritarianism from within the president’s own orbit. Her refusal to be intimidated—either by family loyalty or the political backlash that often targets queer critics—matters deeply in a climate where anti-LGBTQ rhetoric is increasingly mainstreamed in American politics.

Her message underscores a broader truth: LGBTQ people have always been at the front lines of defending democratic values, whether in the streets, in courts, or in conversations that risk personal consequence. Standing up to powerful figures, even those within one’s own family, is a form of resistance.

Remembering What’s at Stake

Mary Trump concludes her reflection with a warning: forgetting Jan. 6 is not an option. Americans must remember the officers who protected Congress, the lawmakers who attempted accountability, and the ongoing efforts to undermine elections, justice, and trust in government.

“We are the keepers of these memories,” she wrote. “We can never allow the memory of that tragic, horrific, treasonous day to fade.”

For LGBTQ people, for democracy, and for anyone who believes truth matters, her call to action rings loud and clear.