Do you remember Donna and the Chicken Costume in The West Wing?

[avebury]

One the groups needs to have an outfit that is a giant pile of mashed potatoes. Someone could stand outside of every rally wearing it. Another person could wear one outside of the WH. How about a balloon depicting mashed potatoes flying everywhere Trump does. There are all kinds of mashed potato themed ways to flaunt it in his face.

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

1. Missed the mashed potato reference...

Could you please enlighten? Couldn’t take the last hour of the “debate”.

[JHB]

3. It's an anecdote from Mary Trump's book

Mary Trump recounts an excruciatingly awkward family dinner party held at the White House in April 2017. The dinner was ostensibly meant to celebrate the birthdays of Donald Trump’s sisters, Maryanne Trump Barry and Elizabeth Trump Grau (though Donald Trump largely spent the evening extolling his own virtues).

The family got a tour of the White House and stopped at the Lincoln Bedroom, where Mary Trump observed a half-eaten apple on the bedside table. Donald Trump proclaimed, “This place has never looked better since George Washington lived here.” (Mary Trump notes the White House didn't open until after Washington’s death.)

Dinner was no less uncomfortable. At one point, Donald Trump gestured to his son Eric Trump’s wife, Lara Trump, and said, “Lara, there, I barely even knew who the (expletive) she was, honestly, but then she gave a great speech during the campaign in Georgia supporting me.” By that point, Eric and Lara had been together for nearly eight years.

The most awkward moment came when Maryanne Trump Barry regaled the table with the story of the time Freddy Trump dumped a bowl of mashed potatoes on his bratty little brother’s head. It’s the sort of harmless, humorous anecdote most families relish retelling over the years until it becomes lore. But decades later, Donald Trump visibly bristled at the memory, crossing his arms and scowling. “It upset him, as if he were that seven-year-old boy,” Mary Trump writes. “He clearly still felt the sting of that long-ago humiliation.”

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/books/2020/07/08/mary-trump-book-family-memoir-worst-moments-donald-trump/5396178002/

[N_E_1 for Tennis]

5. Thank you JHB...

Now I understand the post where they said President Biden should keep a bowl of mashed potatoes on the podium next debate.

[JHB]

2. New version of Trump Baby balloon with an up-ended bowl of mashed potatoes on its head?

[avebury]

4. Rhiannon12866 posted a good summation of the story.

His eldest brother dumped a bowl of mashed potatoes on his head one night at dinner when 7 year old brat Donald wouldn't stop torturing his younger brother (the one who just died). And he was still freaked out about it and the humiliation when someone brought it up during a family birthday for his 2 sisters at the White House in 2017! He's kinda thin skinned...

Mary Trump told the story in her book. His family still thinks is was pretty funny. To this day, Trump hates the story. One of his biggest fears in life is being humiliated.