‘Queen of alternative facts’: Twitter demolishes Kellyanne Conway’s nonsensical voting-cupcake analogy

05/28/2020 10:52 am ET • Amy Penn

'The Pinocchio Presidency is suffering from disassociation from reality': Twitter has a meltdown at Kellyanne Conway's bizarre voting-cupcake analogy

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While defending President Trump’s stance on mail-in voting, his senior White House advisor Kellyanne Conway likened standing in line to vote with queuing to buy a cupcake.

Speaking to reporters on the White House lawn, Wednesday, Conway argued that if people can stand in line at the usually-bustling Georgetown Cupcakes in D.C., they can turn up to vote in person.

“People very proudly show up and go to the polls. They really are…I mean they wait in line at Georgetown Cupcake for an hour to get a cupcake. So I think they can probably wait in line to do something as consequential and critical and constitutionally significant as cast their ballot.”

Her remarks come a week after she called Biden a frat boy for wanting a female VP. But this time, Twitter wasn’t having it for equating Americans’ constitutional right to buying cupcakes.

‘Delivery only’

Wisconsin Second District’s Rep. Mark Pocan drew attention to facts. He even used Conway’s own reasoning to show why it’s time that the U.S. gets national vote-by-mail.

To be clear, Georgetown Cupcakes in D.C. right now is delivery only.

So if that's your arbitrary standard Kellyanne, I think it's time that our country has national vote-by-mail. https://t.co/AyNttIxJTC

— Rep. Mark Pocan (@repmarkpocan) May 27, 2020

The cupcakery in question repeated that they were open for delivery and shipping only.

I'm so here for the Georgetown Cupcake subtweet https://t.co/NWLIvdaXrh

— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) May 27, 2020

More access to cupcakes

A hand holding a cupcake with teal frosting

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Others used the analogy to show how access to cupcakes (you can buy them online or make them at home) is easier than voting.

The fun thing about KellyAnne Conway's cupcake analogy is that, yes, we can stand in line for cupcakes, but we can also buy cupcakes online. We can even make cupcakes at home.

Basically, Republicans think you should have more access to cupcakes than your right to vote.

— Nick Jack Pappas (@Pappiness) May 27, 2020

Some Twitter users also noted that it couldn’t be the same because, unlike voting, there isn’t a day when all adult Americans stand in line to buy cupcakes.

Remind me which day of the year all adult Americans stand in line to buy cupcakes? https://t.co/GMuLmEUOuK

— Devin Nunes’ cow 🐮 (@DevinCow) May 27, 2020

‘Listen Cupcake Queen, don’t f*ck with our rights to vote’

Others on the social media platform were genuinely furious.

Queen of alternative facts @KellyannePolls equated our constitutional right to vote with buying cupcakes. The Pinocchio Presidency is suffering from mental illness & disassociation from reality. Listen Cupcake Queen, don't f-ck with our rights to vote.pic.twitter.com/ybhnnd7qfC

— Fred Guttenberg (@fred_guttenberg) May 27, 2020

Some others pointed out that while voting is a constitutional ‘right’ that’s afforded to all, eating fancy confections is a privilege. Summary: It’s not the same.

Voting is a constitutional right.

Eating fancy cupcakes is a luxury

There’s a big difference Kellyanne

But you knew that already. pic.twitter.com/gyOBX2FKFC

— Andrew Weinstein (@Weinsteinlaw) May 27, 2020

Some even wielded sarcasm as a weapon to say that, out of voting and cupcakes, one of them is constitutionally protected, and it’s not cupcakes.

1) You can pry my cupcakes out of my cold, dead hands.
2) None of you bastards told me that cupcakes were constitutionally protected.

Kellyanne Conway says if you can stand in line for a cupcake, you can stand in line to vote pic.twitter.com/msboTu9Dhu

— Holly Figueroa O'Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan) May 27, 2020

‘There have not been a lot of cupcake lines lately since there are 100k dead’

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One Twitter user pointed to a grim statistic: With more than 100,000 deaths from coronavirus in the U.S., there aren’t long lines anywhere anymore.

What a silly thing to say. Comparing getting a cupcake with the centerpiece of our democracy — voting. If you have not noticed @KellyannePolls there have not been a lot of cupcake lines lately since there are 100k dead. https://t.co/fHjQemahw2

— Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) May 27, 2020

As coronavirus peaked unemployment and deepened the hunger crisis in the U.S., some of them didn’t forget hungry Americans outside food banks as they stood in lines that were miles long.

They also dubbed her Marie Antoinette, the one other person in history that asked people suffering to eat cake.

In these days Americans don't stand in line for a cupcake, but stand in food lines for miles and miles across the US to get to the food banks – because they go hungry. Marie Antoinette couldn't have been any despicabler than Kellyanne: "Let them eat cupcakes". https://t.co/JJPixbsqrx

— George Puluj (@GeorgPuluj) May 27, 2020

Things didn’t stay sweet

It got real mean, real quick as voters decided to reiterate who they were voting for.

Kellyanne Conway: “If you can stand in line for a cupcake, you can stand in line to vote.”
Dear @KellyannePolls,
And if you can lick Trump’s ass, YOU can lick a stamp.
I’m voting for @JoeBiden on #ElevenThree. By mail.

— Ken Olin (@kenolin1) May 27, 2020

Her intelligence was also questioned.

I’m going to go on a limb and guess that the analogy section of the SAT was not Kellyanne’s forte. https://t.co/OyZtA2UEeh

— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) May 27, 2020

Either way, if Kellyanne is nicknamed “cupcake” henceforth, there’s one explanation.

So we all agree that if we henceforth address Kellyanne Conway as “Cupcake” it’s not a sexist slur but a reference to her latest “let them eat cake” ridiculousness, right? pic.twitter.com/DjWVTNj4Za

— Kathleen Smith (@KikkiPlanet) May 28, 2020