I though the joke is that he made up a personality to pick her up

Dobrindt war als Verkehrsminister schon 'ne absolute Flasche.

Hab nix von dem erwartet als er ins Innenministerium kam, wurde trotzdem bereits mehrfach enttäuscht.

There were so many ridiculous things happening around this - aside from the fact that this was such a huge discussion in the first place.

The funniest one was the guy at one of those stupidity conglomerate "safe Timmy" protests, that was eating a fish burger. And when a reporter asked him if he is aware that the whale only got caught up in fish nets because of people like him, he wasn't even able to understand the connection.