Let’s be very clear here that Mike Pence is still extremely bad. He’s a staunchly anti-gay politician who supports gay conversion ‘therapy’ and literally ran for Congress in 2000 on a platform of reversing life-saving funding to stop the spread of AIDS and support HIV-positive people.
But his response to the cast of ‘Hamilton‘ addressing him directly on Saturday night isn’t – and I mean this with the lowest possible base line to compare it to (Trump) – the worst.
The Vice President-elect told Fox News on Sunday morning that he wasn’t offended by ‘Hamilton’ star Brandon Victor Dixon urging Pence to consider “the diverse America” throughout his role as part of the Trump administration.
“I nudged my kids and reminded them, ‘That’s what freedom sounds like’,” he said, a stark contrast to Trump’s deranged tweets that the theatre should be a “safe space” for notable straight white guy Pence.
The Theater must always be a safe and special place.The cast of Hamilton was very rude last night to a very good man, Mike Pence. Apologize!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 19, 2016
“‘Hamilton is just an incredible production and incredibly talented people,” Pence continued. “It was a real joy to be there.”
None of this is unusual. This is just standard, political fluff – get called out for your shitty ethics, pretend everything is fine, say how much you liked the other guy, actually.
This is the ‘not the worst’ part:
“I know this is a very disappointing time for people that did not see their candidate win in this national election,” he said. “I know that this is a very anxious time for some people. And I just want to reassure people that what President-elect Donald Trump said on election night he absolutely meant from the bottom of his heart—he is preparing to be the president of all of the people of the United States of America.”
It says a lot about Trump that the base line for good leadership is ‘not acting like a manbaby’, but here we are.
‘Course, Pence is still a homophobic pro-lifer who shouldn’t be in charge of a chicken shop let alone a country, and Trump is basically riding these shockwaves to distract from his US $25 million settlement over the total scam of Trump University.
But… progress? Maybe?
Photo: Fox News.
