There is, so far as we know, only one moment in Donald Trump’s long and privileged life in which he was actually made to shut up: the mashed potato incident.
When Trump was 7, his elder brother Fred dumped a warm bowl of mash on Donald’s head at the dinner table “because he was being such a brat” towards their younger siblings and wouldn’t listen to his mother, according to Mary Trump’s family tell-all Too Much and Never Enough. “Everybody laughed, and they couldn’t stop laughing,” she wrote. “It was the first time Donald had been humiliated … from then on, he would never allow himself to feel that feeling again.” The incident still stings: Trump glowered at the family when they brought it up during a White House lunch in 2017, Mary wrote. Read more…
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