Former Rhode Island state Rep. Joe Trillo, a former state Trump campaign chair who is running for governor as a conservative independent, had a campaign moment straight out of "Arrested Development" over the weekend. As the Associated Press' Jennifer McDermott succinctly puts it, Trillo "had to be rescued by the Coast Guard on Sunday after his yacht hit a rock while blasting music at beachgoers to draw attention to his campaign."
In an instance of real life imitating The Onion, Trillo used the yacht, the Lady M, to approach beaches and pledge to beachgoers that he would install garbage cans so they'd no longer have to carry out their trash in bags. He would then use his "very, very big sound equipment" to play a John Philip Sousa march before leaving for the next beach. Trillo, perhaps channeling his inner Buster Bluth, explained that the Lady M hit an uncharted rock and began taking on water.
Trillo, who had done this once before without incident, says he hasn't decided if he'll continue with this strategy once the ship is fixed.