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Soup For My Family

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Published November 10, 2026

Soup For My Family refers to a July 2020 Donald Trump monologue claiming protesters hurled cans of soup at police and would tell officers the soup was just groceries for the family. The rant went unnoticed for a month until a Washington Post reporter surfaced it on Twitter in September 2020, feeding Simpsons GIF edits, product-label parodies and TikTok lipsyncs that cleared half a million likes.

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Overview

Trump paused mid-tangent to mimic a protester calmly telling officers that a bag of weaponized cans was just groceries, and that bait-and-switch delivery powered most of the edits1. Posts riffed on the 'big bags of soup' line with product mockups, including a Campbell's style can labeled Welcome To The Resistance4. Animation edits circulated too, including a GIF of Andy Warhol pelting Homer Simpson with soup cans as a stand-in for the imagined assault3.

TikTok users turned the clip into lipsync material, acting out the imagined protester excuse with exaggerated innocence while holding up kitchen staples5. Jokes fixated on the gap between Trump's menacing delivery and the mundane image of a pantry shelf, which gave accounts an easy visual punchline without needing to edit the audio1.

Origin & Background

Platform
White House press event / Twitter (viral spread)
Date
2020

On July 31, 2020, Donald Trump spoke to the National Association of Police Organizations and went on a tangent about demonstrators during that summer's protests against racial injustice and police brutality, claiming they used 'big bags of soup' as weapons against officers5. In the same stretch of remarks, he role-played the excuse he expected a protester to give, saying the cans were 'soup for my family'1. The full video was posted to YouTube and ran under two minutes1.

How It Spread

The clip drew little notice at the time. On September 1, 2020, Washington Post reporter Christopher Ingraham tweeted, 'I somehow missed the President's extended monologue last month on the use of soup as a deadly protest weapon. Big bags of soup,' and the post gathered more than 4,600 retweets and 8,800 likes2. That tweet renewed attention to the original audio and kicked off a day of Twitter jokes.

Twitter user @ditzkoff shared a GIF of Andy Warhol flinging soup cans at Homer Simpson in The Simpsons, which picked up more than 280 retweets and 1,600 likes3. Designer @rob_sheridan posted a Welcome To The Resistance soup label mockup that collected over 640 retweets and 2,300 likes4. On TikTok, user arinsquirrel98 posted a lipsync parody that reached over 558,000 likes, and user avaviolet.1221 followed with a version that reached 99,000 likes5.

Timeline

2020-07-31

Donald Trump tells the National Association of Police Organizations that protesters throw 'big bags of soup' at police and claim the cans are 'soup for my family.'

2020-09-01

Washington Post reporter Christopher Ingraham tweets about the clip, getting over 4,600 retweets and reviving the audio.

2020-09-01

@ditzkoff posts the Andy Warhol vs Homer Simpson soup-can GIF; @rob_sheridan shares a Welcome To The Resistance can label.

2020-09

TikTok lipsync parodies by arinsquirrel98 and avaviolet.1221 pass 558,000 and 99,000 likes respectively.

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