Diana Gaffney, L, and Tina Suca, R, listen to recordings of celebrities and politicians who have battled with President Trump on Twitter and survived at the Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library at Clusterfest in San Francisco. (Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)
U.S. presidents usually have to wait until after they’re out of office before getting their presidential libraries. But visitors to San Francisco’s Clusterfest this weekend got to see at least one version of a Donald Trump presidential library.
The folks at Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” brought their The Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library to the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium following stints in New York City and Chicago.
The library was one of five interactive attractions at the second annual three-day comedy and music festival. Exhibits at the library included a memorial to “deleted but not forgotten” tweets by the president, a wall of “verified survivors” of President Trump’s Twitter battles and a map of countries the president has tweeted about.
The main attraction inside the library was a replica Oval Office featuring a golden toilet where visitors were presented a crisis situation and given 30 seconds to tweet about it.
“It’s a reminder of how absolutely ridiculous this president is,” said Tina Suca, who was attending her second Clusterfest. “It’s my favorite festival. I laughed so hard last night, my face hurt.”
Diana Gaffney from San Francisco sits on a golden toilet inside a replica of the Oval Office at the Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library at Clusterfest in San Francisco. Visitors were presented with a crisis situation which they then have 30 seconds to tweet about. (Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)A memorial dedicated to “deleted but not forgotten” tweets by President Trump at the Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library at Clusterfest. The library, presented by Comedy Central’s ‘The Daily Show,’ had made previous appearances in New York City and Chicago. (Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)Zach Waldrop from Los Angeles checks out a map of countries like Colombia and Kenya that President Trump has tweeted about. ‘It shows you that how ridiculous it is, how he’s spending so much time tweeting instead of focusing on important matters,’ he said. (Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)The Daily Show correspondent Roy Wood, Jr. talks to a festival goer inside the Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library at Clusterfest. Wood Jr. performed three times during the weekend. (Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)
The festival featured numerous marquee comedy acts including Jon Stewart, Amy Schumer, The Lonely Island, Trevor Noah, John Mulaney, Tiffany Haddish and many others.
Australian-born comedian Jim Jefferies, who hosts ‘The Jim Jefferies Show” on Comedy Central performs inside the Bill Graham Civic Auditorium at Clusterfest. (Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)‘The Daily Show’ correspondent Roy Wood, Jr. emcees karaoke at Clusterfest as the first singer, Em Rodenski of Concord gets ready to perform ‘Semi-Charmed Life’ by Third Eye Blind. (Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)Marine biologist turned stand-up comedian Forrest Shaw performs onstage inside Bill Graham Civic Auditorium at Clusterfest. (Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)
There were five themed interactive attractions spread across the festival, including the Trump Twitter library. The other four were all based off of beloved television shows: a county fair based off of Comedy Central’s “South Park,” a chance to relive Nickelodeon’s “Double Dare” show from the 1980s and 1990s, a recreation of Paddy’s Pud from FX’s “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” and a Bluth’s Frozen Banana Stand from the Netflix’s “Arrested Development.”
Tina and Nick Bravo (R-L) from San Jose at the ‘South Park’ county fair at Clusterfest. They said the highlight of the festival for them was the outdoor games such as balloon darts. (Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)The ‘Kill Kenny’ balloon darts, one of several activities at the ‘South Park’ county fair at Clusterfest. (Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)Festivalgoers play Skee-Ball at the ‘South Park’ county fair at Clusterfest, one of five themed interactive attractions at the festival. (Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)Festivalgoers relax at Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco during Clusterfest. The festival premiered in June 2017, and organizers said more than 45,000 people attended over its initial three-day run. (Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)Marc Summers, the original host of ‘Double Dare,’ the game show that premiered in 1986 on Nickelodeon, pulls a string to slime Brad Koelling of Dublin, California, at Clusterfest. (Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)Brad Koelling from Dublin, California, emerges from a tank after being slimed, his prize for beating out a dozen contestants on an obstacle course from ‘Double Dare,’ the classic ’80s and ’90s television show on Nickelodeon at Clusterfest. (Sheraz Sadiq/KQED)
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