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https://www.rawstory.com/2017/10/trump-tweet-confirms-pence-nfl-walkout-was-premeditated/
President Donald Trump confirmed that he ordered Vice President Mike Pence to leave Sundays game between the Indianapolis Colts and San Francisco 49ers if any players protested during the National Anthem.
Some of them did, so the vice president walked out.
Social media users werent fooled, and called out Pence for attending the game at taxpayer expense for what appeared to be a political stunt.
The president confirmed their suspicions a short time later in his own tweet.
Donald J. Trump ?Verified account
@realDonaldTrump
I asked @VP Pence to leave stadium if any players kneeled, disrespecting our country. I am proud of him and @SecondLady Karen.
11:16 AM - 8 Oct 2017
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D_Master81
(1,822 posts)w/ their base. everything they do is about their base.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)Irish_Dem
(47,115 posts)And all these two idiots can do is devise a plot to walk out of football games?
rufus dog
(8,419 posts)PR in chaos.
Mass shooting in LV.
White Supremacist Nazis march on American city.
Health Care
North Korea
Russia
... let's talk about kneeling.
Irish_Dem
(47,115 posts)nocalflea
(1,387 posts)procon
(15,805 posts)What did it cost us this time to provide Pence with airfare, milk money, and security, so he could create a big photo op scene as he flounced out of the stadium in a fake snit? Is this all we got for the ticket price?
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)Did he leave alone? If so, good.
underpants
(182,825 posts)The VP can't just pop in and out of places. There is a serious hassle to everyone and added costs so he could do this.
Welcome to th outside world Pence. Just like when you went to Hamilton you got it thrown back in your face.
Initech
(100,079 posts)smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Look at Fat Bastard in that photo, doing his best Al Capone impression. He's such a disgusting POS.
spanone
(135,842 posts)Major Assholes
HAB911
(8,902 posts)was told to stay in the van in the parking lot and that @VP would leave the game early
Link to tweet
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,330 posts)I wonder if Trump is trying to take credit for Pence's stunt?
remember:
dalton99a
(81,513 posts)underpants
(182,825 posts)Rightwing, hanging out with that Poppa John's asshole (they are good friends), a friend of Hannity too. I didn't like him at Tennessee or anywhere. His father didn't have enough sense to get the hell out of New Orleans and play for a team that any shot of winning. Oh and I can't stand his brother Eli either.
Rhiannon12866
(205,467 posts)renate
(13,776 posts)This is worse than the private jets. Taxpayers paid for the security and logistics for a PR stunt while people are desperate and starving in Puerto Rico. Its vile.
Rhiannon12866
(205,467 posts)He had the unmitigated gall to complain to the hurricane victims about "his budget," yet he - and his entire extended adult family - spend hundreds of thousands in taxpayer money for their business and entertainment travels - including security details - without a second thought!
Rhiannon12866
(205,467 posts)malaise
(269,024 posts)LOCK THEM UP!
mcar
(42,334 posts)Left stadium and flew directly to LA. What did this idiotic stunt cost us? How much water, food and medicine could it have bought for PR?
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Solly Mack
(90,769 posts)Most people aspire to great heights, but not Trump. He digs down deep in search of the lows. He's happy in the gutter but happier still to explore what's under the sewer, beneath the shit silt soft ground - where he wallows in ecstasy.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,492 posts)It's too coherent. Written by his minders, but with his approval.
Good thing Pence left the game and relieved the fans or that stench.
DinahMoeHum
(21,794 posts)Link to tweet
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Choreographed horseshit - and our tax dollars paid for it.- Dave Zirin
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Blue Owl
(50,393 posts)What a man of weak moral fiber the #VPOS is... Disgusting...
Phoenix61
(17,006 posts)that Twitler is telling Pence what to do. He's got to be in charge of someone.