Trump in Maine, asks stupid questions about lobsters and calls Governor a “dictator”

powerful image of plunger lady protesting Trump’s speech today in rural Maine pic.twitter.com/YMnwpI2Gu8— Nathan Bernard (@nathanTbernard) June 5, 2020

“Are they the same lobster, would you say, basically? Would you say they're equivalent as lobster? Is there a difference in size, or type?” — Trump's unintentionally comedic ignorance is on full display during this roundtable event in Maine pic.twitter.com/3cOibzLgRm

In his official speech at a swab factory in Maine, Trump touts the jobs numbers, boasts about his crowds and the border wall, muses about the 2016 and 2020 elections, bashes Democrats, and repeats his talk about how we have so many coronavirus cases because we do so many tests.

A line in Trump's speech talks about the virus. He ad-libs, “That horrible, horrible, terrible, disgusting, angry virus.”

(My previous version of this quote omitted the “angry.”)

Regarding Trump's trip to rural Maine, there are only TWO major manufacturers of nasopharyngeal #COVID19 swabs on earth. One is Puritan Medical of Guilford.

Trump will lie today about how he brought them $$ and jobs.

Truth: He ignored them for months.https://t.co/2lrQzvVaYi

Trump criticizes Maine's governor for what he says is a too-slow pace of “reopening,” emphasizing harm to the tourism sector. He says, “What's she doing? What's she doing? I don't know that much, I just know you're great people.”

Trump complains that, no matter how many tests are conducted, the media keeps pushing him about why more aren't being done. “Oy yoi yoi, what I have to put up with,” he says to applause.

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) June 5, 2020

This is something you’ll only see in Maine. Crews are setting up a barrier blocking the parking lot to Puritan Medical using LOGS from Hardwood Products across the street ahead of President Trump’s visit to Guilford @newscentermaine pic.twitter.com/0xZ4UDBtZn

— Sean Stackhouse (@StackhouseNCME) June 5, 2020