When Trump was 13, his little brother dumped a bowl of mashed potatoes over his head while seated at

[CatWoman]

the dinner table.

Listening to Mary Trump's audio book and she says when it happened everyone just laughed and laughed. Howled actually.

Donald loved to torment his little brother, and it was one rare occasion little brother got some much deserved revenge.

Trump's sister brought it up again when they had dinner at the White House shortly after Don's inauguration. Again, more laughter. From everyone but Trump.

As a matter of fact, every time it's brought up Trump dies a little bit inside. He has never been able to get over the humiliation.

It would be a shame if someone posted the incident on his Twitter page.

Really it would.

[Mike 03]

1. Does Mary Trump read her own audiobook?? nt

[CatWoman]

3. do you mean narrate?

[Mike 03]

4. Yes, narrate? Thanks.

[CatWoman]

5. i believe it's her

[Mike 03]

7. Wonderful news.

I've ordered her book, but it might be worthwhile to hear her narrate her own work.

This is a great anecdote. Thanks for sharing.

The authors of The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump theorized that it's Trump's unwillingness to experience emotions like humiliation and shame that led to his aberrant character development. So I find this fascinating.

[CatWoman]

68. and Mary will be Rachel's guest tomorrow night

[Zoonart]

2. I have never seen Trump laugh.

Never once. He smiles that fake shit eating grin. Never heard him tell a joke or react to one.

[soothsayer]

9. Yep

[mnmoderatedem]

12. he probably has, privately

when viewing things like immigrant children locked in cages.

[leftyladyfrommo]

21. I grew up with narcissistic mother and others.

They don't have a sense of humor or irony. They are so literal it's hard to carry on a conversation.

[malaise]

34. True true

[Zoonart]

56. Love that laugh BAM!

[bdamomma]

37. Everyone does

remember when President Obama poked fun at Donald at the News Correspondents Dinner, if looks could kill, tRump has been out to seek revenge on President Obama. tRump's nothing but a coward and a bully.

[3catwoman3]

48. He leers and sneers.

And bares his teeth.

[marble falls]

59. I have. Its scarey ...

I think someone's kitten died.

[Nevilledog]

6. We should look back at White House menus during trump's occupation.

Bet mashed potatoes have never been served.

[albacore]

8. I am convinced that trump hates Obama SO much because....

Obama teased trump at the WH correspondent's dinner...

trump takes himself VERY seriously... and petty revenge is what he does.

Obama is self-deprecating... because his ego is not the fragile flower that trump's is.

[cornball 24]

20. I am so with you on this!! That image of Trump rocking back and forth in his seat while President

Obama took a gentle poke at him that night told me that Trump would do anything to seek revenge. And here we are...!

[Bev54]

30. I would love the Lincoln Project to put that in one

of their ads, along with this story of Mary's. Just keep rolling it on Hannity every night.

[CaptYossarian]

46. The "Spuds McCovid" ads.

[George II]

32. I thought of that when I read the OP. Yes, from that night on he despised Obama.

[JHB]

51. He despised Obama before then (birtherism), but that gave him the obsessive fire for revenge

After that, his bottomless sense of inadequacy caused his obsession with obliterating every last bit of Obama's legacy.

[SergeStorms]

61. Trump's racism came to the forefront then.

Trump's aspirations for the White House go back to the 1990s. To Trump, a black man being elected to the White House before him, was something that stuck in his craw, and indeed still does.

When President Obama teased him Trump's expression never changed. You could tell the pressure was rising inside Trump's vacuous skull. He has no sense of self-deprecation, almost no sense of humor whatsoever. He's devoid of humility, has no sense of moral imperatives, and his egomania is without compare. Any person who is so divorced from normal human characteristics, who has such a dark, demented mind, has absolutely no business anywhere near the seat of any power, let alone the most powerful seat in the world.

[BigmanPigman]

33. That's what I thought of too.

He lives for revenge. That sick fucker should be in jail, not the Oval.

[smirkymonkey]

39. He was just brilliant and so good at trolling Trump.

And Trump will never, ever forgive him for that. The man has absolutely no sense of humor.

[MrsMatt]

41. I wonder sometimes

if in hindsight, Obama regrets it - I believe it was the impetus for Trump to run.

[fescuerescue]

45. If that's what made him run.

Then we should all regret it.

[Solomon]

47. Me too. Obama is so mature that I believe if he knew that his jokes

would cause what has happened, that he would have had the discipline to refrain from enjoying telling those jokes.

[SammyWinstonJack]

60. Truth be told, it probably was and we're all paying dearly for that.

[3catwoman3]

49. I do think this is part of the reason...

...he decided to run.

[DFW]

10. Donald's head must be very porous

It would appear that the mashed potatoes seeped in and gradually took the place of 60% of his cerebrum.

[CentralMass]

13. The mashed potatoes did wonders for his hair.

[DFW]

14. So long ago, now replaced by limestone in the process of fossilization n/t

[misanthrope]

11. There's two things in that anecdote

1) it brings to mind Donald Trump's absolute mania about being laughed at. Is this the source, or just part of it?

2) In the families I've known, one or more parents would have leapt up, angered by such behavior at the dinner table. They would have likely made the younger brother apologize and then punished him. Fred Trump's bunch were content to pile on the humiliation instead.

[dmr]

16. Right, my mom would've yelled at me for making a mess and wasting the spuds.

Somewhere in there I'd hear about dumping them on someone's head.

But, boy, I can just hear her holler about the mess, lol.

One thing for sure, at the moment, she'd never laugh ... at least, until she was telling the story, and then she would laugh at how she gave me the dickens over it.

[CatWoman]

18. the mom was basically "out to lunch"

she was aware of Donald's constant bullying but could do nothing about it as he absolutely would not listen to or heed her.

[JHB]

53. No, it wasn't the source. He was missing pieces since birth.

But growing up in that household didn't exactly provide any positive compensating mechanisms.

[IronLionZion]

58. Fred Trump was known to be a tremendous asshole

which is where Donald gets it from

[WhiskeyGrinder]

15. What a sad family.

[bdamomma]

38. they were

no "Kennedy's".

[MagickMuffin]

17. It would be a terrible shame if people threw mashed potatoes at his passing car

Or whenever he's around, bowl of mashed potatoes at the ready!

[CatWoman]

19. BWA

Excellent idea

[Dagstead Bumwood]

22. They need to redesign the baby balloons that haunt him

so that they appear to have mashed potatoes on their heads.

[Dem2theMax]

29. Maybe we should all take pictures of ourselves with mashed potatoes on our heads,

and plaster them all over his Twitter feed.

[tblue37]

23. His older brother did that, because Trump was bullying the younger brother.

Comment from Maryanne:

"We’ve come a long way since that night when Freddy dumped a bowl of mashed potatoes on Donald’s head because he was being such a brat.”

Freddy was the oldest brother, the one who died from alcoholism.

[MoonRiver]

24. I'm reading the book, and enjoyed learning about his little bro's revenge!

Of course the POS did everything he could to get back at little brother throughout 3 decades. Cause that's what the POS always does.

The book is fascinating!

[CatWoman]

27. i find it odd that it was the little brother who brought the lawsuit against Mary

[MoonRiver]

66. He probably drank the Kool-Aid and is terrified of the all powerful Chump.

Stupid, but look at the family he hails from.

[louslobbs]

26. So Trump

Is the original Mr. Potato Head?
Lou

[bucolic_frolic]

28. Great, little did we know then, but all of western civilization rested on doing the mashed potatoes

Anyone who feels compelled to pull this maneuver on their sibling, there is a reason. Use a very big bowl.

[Hip2bSquare]

31. Close Encounters mashed potato scene

I'm looking forward to the mashed potato jokes after reading this. Just imagine carving maga out of huge pile of mashed potatoes and putting it just outside of maga-lago.

[JHB]

54. Anybody too young to "get" your username would also be too young to get that reference.

[warmfeet]

35. It would be a shame if it happened again.

But with shit, not mashed potatoes.

What a shame that would be.

[denem]

52. Oh I think it should be the mashed potatoes

triggering his PTSD ... those moments of absolute humiliation when his whole family were laughing their heads off. Yes indeed.

[paleotn]

36. Keep bringing it up...

if he dies a little inside every time. Eventually he'll die completely.

[smirkymonkey]

40. Not soon enough.

[ALBliberal]

42. Raised three kids here and that behavior would have been stopped and disciplined immediately

Must have been a strange household.

[Efilroft Sul]

43. Mr. Potatohead

[Tetrachloride]

44. Childhood issues are unworthy of adults.

Most of us grow out of them. Thats why 18 to 20 is the dividing line between legal adulthood and less than adult.

There are plenty of issues around besides a bowl of potatoes.

[sandensea]

50. The 'little' brother, is now HIM

[Evolve Dammit]

55. HOT steaming mashed potatos, with extra gravy. Bad hair day.

[GopherGal]

67. Disagree on the "bad hair day" part.

it would probably be an improvement.

[JI7]

57. Trump knows he is a failure that's why he puts on the bs act

he can't stand any bit of truth about him being a dumb fucking joke to be out there.

[sarcasmo]

62. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[chriscan64]

63. It is better for journalism that I am not a White House reporter.

"Mr. Mashed Potato Head, er I mean president... a few questions.."

[captain queeg]

64. Oh ok. I'd seen the spud reference in another thread and didn't know where it came from.

A childish jab like calling idiot orange by his childhood nickname would be great. Hopefully some cartoonists will run with this. I’d like to see a new version of the trump baby ballon with a bowl of mashed potatoes on its head.

[Ilsa]

65. People should laugh around him and quickly

shut up when he turns to them. Stoke the paranoia of Spud Trump!