# Soup For My Family 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. ## Origin 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 officers[5]. 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 minutes[1]. - **Platform:** White House press event / Twitter (viral spread) - **Creator:** Unknown - **Date:** 2020 ## 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 edits[1]. Posts riffed on the 'big bags of soup' line with product mockups, including a Campbell's style can labeled Welcome To The Resistance[4]. Animation edits circulated too, including a GIF of Andy Warhol pelting Homer Simpson with soup cans as a stand-in for the imagined assault[3]. TikTok users turned the clip into lipsync material, acting out the imagined protester excuse with exaggerated innocence while holding up kitchen staples[5]. 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 audio[1]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Soup For My Family? It is a line Donald Trump used in July 2020 while describing imagined excuses protesters would give police for carrying cans of soup, which later circulated as a viral audio and lipsync joke[2]. ### Where did Soup For My Family come from? Trump said it during a July 31, 2020 meeting with the National Association of Police Organizations, in a tangent about soup cans being used as protest weapons[1]. ### What does Soup For My Family mean? In Trump's telling, it was the cover story a protester would supposedly give police when caught with a bag of cans, and online the phrase is used to mock the premise itself[5]. ### How do you use Soup For My Family? Typical posts pair the audio with mundane groceries, soup-can product mockups like @rob_sheridan's Welcome To The Resistance label[4], or lipsync videos acting out the imagined protester excuse[5]. ### Is Soup For My Family still popular? Peak interest was in early September 2020 around the Christopher Ingraham tweet and the TikTok lipsyncs that followed[2], and activity has faded with the news cycle since then[5]. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf3b1AJNAR8]() 2. [https://twitter.com/_cingraham/status/1300877539305336833]() 3. [https://twitter.com/ditzkoff/status/1300935748259020800]() 4. [https://twitter.com/rob_sheridan/status/1300941995536347136]() 5. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/soup-for-my-family]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/soup-for-my-family Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library