(
pictured in 2025), who makes a guest appearance.The contestants return to the Werk Room after
Honey Davenport's elimination from the competition. On a new day,
RuPaul greets the contestants and introduces the mini-challenge ("Why You Maddow, Tho?"), which tasks contestants with getting into "quick drag" and delivering the news while impersonating
Rachel Maddow, RuPaul's favorite
news presenter. Maddow appears as a special guest and helps introduce the mini-challenge. Contestants read fictional news from a
teleprompter, some more successfully than others. RuPaul names
Scarlet Envy the winner. RuPaul reveals the main challenge, which tasks contestants with performing in a
lip-sync musical parody of
Grease (1971) about U.S. President
Donald Trump and the women in his life and
cabinet, called
Trump: The Rusical. The
Rusical features choreography by
Yanis Marshall, who provides instruction during the episode. As the winner of the mini-challenge, Scarlet Envy assigns the following roles: •
A'keria Davenport as
Stormy Daniels •
Ariel Versace as Shandy (based on Sandy from
Grease) •
Brooke Lynn Hytes as
Ivana Trump •
Mercedes Iman Diamond as
Ivanka Trump •
Nina West as
Sarah Sanders •
Plastique Tiara as
Melania Trump •
Ra'Jah O'Hara as
Omarosa Manigault Newman • Scarlet Envy as
Betsy DeVos •
Shuga Cain as
Hillary Clinton •
Silky Nutmeg Ganache as
Oprah Winfrey •
Vanessa Vanjie Mateo as
Rosie O'Donnell •
Yvie Oddly as
Kellyanne Conway During preparations for the main challenge, Yvie Oddly reveals she has
Ehlers–Danlos syndrome, type 3, a
connective tissue disease,
Nina West describes being harassed during college in the wake of the
murder of Matthew Shepard, and Mercedes Iman Diamond (the first Muslim contestant on the show) addresses
Islamophobia and explains her previous reluctance to discuss her religion on the show. Silky Nutmeg Ganache also explains she is a registered
Republican because of party
gerrymandering and "gentrification and movement of the districts". She explains, "It's very important that people realize that if you want to stop that within the political process, get smarter than them. Register as a Republican, and they'll have to redo everything." The musical features former contestant
Ginger Minj as Donald Trump.
Ross Mathews also participates by interjecting a line from the judges panel at Ra'Jah O'Hara as Newman; Mathews and Newman competed on the
first season of
Celebrity Big Brother, a spin-off of the American reality television series
Big Brother. RuPaul welcomes fellow panelists, including guest judges
Joel McHale and
Tiffany Pollard. RuPaul then reveals the theme for the runway: "Orange Alert". Scarlet Envy, Nina West, Ariel Versace, Plastique Tiara, Shuga Cain, and A'Keria C. Davenport are declared safe. RuPaul tells Scarlet Envy she did a good job casting for the musical. Yvie Oddly, Silky Nutmeg Ganache, and Brooke Lynn Hytes receive positive feedback from the judges, while Ra'Jah O'Hara, Mercedes Iman Diamond, and Vanessa Vanjie Mateo receive negative critiques for their lack of performance in the musical. RuPaul names Silky Nutmeg Ganache the winner of the challenge. Mercedes Iman Diamond and Ra'Jah O'Hara are deemed the bottom two and lip-sync battle to
James Brown's "
Living in America". RuPaul declares Ra'Jah O'Hara the winner of the lip sync battle, eliminating Mercedes Iman Diamond from the competition. Mercedes Iman Diamond
ululates as she exits the stage. == Production ==