The Trump Administration
Pence
Pence
Michael Pence, Vice President, former Governor of Indiana
Day 789
Tuesday 19 March 2019
Pence will visit Nebraska Tuesday to survey the damage caused by historic flooding responsible for killing at least three people.
Day 768
Tuesday 26 February 2019
Senate Republicans expressed deep skepticism about Trump’s emergency declaration at a closed-door meeting with the vice president.
Day 732
Monday 21 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 31
"One of my favorite quotes from Dr. King was 'now is the time to make real the promises of democracy.' ... He inspired us to change through the legislative process to become a more perfect union. That's exactly what President Trump is calling on the Congress to do"
Day 729
Friday 18 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 28
The vice president is appalled anyone would criticize her
Day 727
Wednesday 16 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 26
On the same day that an ISIS-claimed attack killed US service members in Syria, Vice President Mike Pence declared that "the caliphate has crumbled and ISIS has been defeated."
Day 726
Tuesday 15 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 25
The form also reportedly prompts applicants to explain their stance on the “creation/evolution debate.”
Day 719
Tuesday 8 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 18
...the vice president argued that it shouldn't undermine the administration's credibility in the eyes of the American public.
Day 715
Friday 4 January 2019
Government Shutdown Day 14
The increases were the result of Congress’s failure to renew a longstanding freeze on raises for high-ranking officials and political appointees.
The pay raises for Cabinet secretaries, deputy secretaries, top administrators and even Vice President Pence are scheduled to go into effect beginning Jan. 5
Day 691
Tuesday 11 December 2018
It was the first-ever tie-breaking vote to confirm a federal judge nominee — in this case, Jonathan Kobes, whom legal experts called a competent and capable person, just not Circuit Court judge material.
Day 680
Friday 30 November 2018
QAnon is a pro-President Donald Trump deep-state conspiracy theory that incorporates everything from "Pizzagate" to "false flag" mass shootings to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Day 678
Wednesday 28 November 2018
...giving thanks “for every day Hillary Clinton is not president.”
Day 675
Sunday 25 November 2018
With the race to 2020 beginning in earnest, Trump should take a page out of his vice president's Asia playbook: Do no harm.
Day 667
Saturday 17 November 2018
Day 666
Friday 16 November 2018
Trump has repeated the question so many times that he has alarmed some of his advisers.
This week, as Vice President Mike Pence crosses Asia assuming duties traditionally carried out by the President, his boss Donald Trump remains back in Washington
Day 665
Thursday 15 November 2018
Mr. Pence didn't appear to smile during the conversation. Messrs. Bolton and Putin did a fair amount of the talking, as Mr. Pence stood and listened.
Day 663
Tuesday 13 November 2018
The United States has accused the military of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya, who are widely reviled in Buddhist-majority Myanmar.
Day 649
Tuesday 30 October 2018
Loren Jacobs, who spoke at a rally with the vice-president, was stripped of his ordination by the Messianic movement in 2003.
Messianic Judaism, which believes that Jesus is the messiah and considers the New Testament to be authentic, is not recognized as Jewish by any mainstream Jewish movement in the United States or by the Chief Rabbinate, the supreme spiritual authority for Judaism in Israel.
Day 643
Wednesday 24 October 2018
Day 642
Tuesday 23 October 2018
Pence said the 1967 treaty “does ban weapons of mass destruction in space, but it doesn’t ban military activity.”
Day 629
Wednesday 10 October 2018
How has Chief of Staff John Kelly managed to keep his job in spite of convincing and persistent rumors and reports that the president is unhappy with him, and he is unhappy in his job?
Day 626
Sunday 7 October 2018
...estimate the cost of Pence's visit -- including hotel, travel and additional security measures -- of at least $325,000.
Day 624
Friday 5 October 2018
But behind closed doors, Mr. Pence’s remarks probably left few doubts among China’s leaders that Washington was embarking on a Cold War that would force the country to dig in for a prolonged multifront battle with the United States
Day 623
Thursday 4 October 2018
Pence launched a broad attack against Beijing Thursday, accusing China of "predatory" economic practices, military aggression against the US and of trying to undermine President Donald Trump and harm his chances of winning re-election.
Day 616
Thursday 27 September 2018
But Obama’s preparations to hand over the government had been superb: the Obama administration had created what amounted to the best course ever on the inner workings of the most powerful institution on earth. What could go wrong?
It wasn’t just Christie who had been fired. It was the entire transition team – although no one ever told them so directly.
Day 614
Tuesday 25 September 2018
...following in the footsteps of Donald Trump, who last year became the first sitting president to do so.
Day 598
Sunday 9 September 2018
Vice-president says anonymous newspaper article was ‘obvious attempt to distract attention from booming economy’
Pence said that he's "fully cooperated" with Mueller's team over the past year and would be "more than willing to continue to provide any and all support" to aid the investigation.
Day 595
Thursday 6 September 2018
Day 594
Wednesday 5 September 2018
Pence was listed at 2-to-3 odds on the site MyBookie
Hours after MyBookie posted numbers, Canada-based Bovada issued its own Trump-leak odds and listed embatted AG Sessions as its favorite at 5-to-2.
Day 592
Monday 3 September 2018
...if Republicans hold Congress in November, they will indeed repeal Obamacare. That’s not a guess: It’s an explicit promise, made by Vice President Mike Pence last week.
Day 589
Friday 31 August 2018
Anti-intellectualism has a long tradition in American politics. Pence was part of its resurgence at the start of the new millennium.
Amidst all the latest melodramas—the Paul Manafort conviction, the Michael Cohen flip—Pence has rarely been seen or heard, and his name has rarely pierced the news cycle.
Day 584
Sunday 26 August 2018
Following Sen. McCain’s wishes for his funeral, widely reported earlier this year, Vice President Mike Pence — not President Donald Trump, who publicly disparaged McCain on numerous occasions — is expected to attend
Day 581
Thursday 23 August 2018
While Trump is who he said he was, the authors write, Pence’s “pious and cautious exterior hid a desire for power equal to Trump’s.”
Day 567
Thursday 9 August 2018
Day 565
Tuesday 7 August 2018
“If you and I fall into bad moral habits, we can harm our families, our employers and our friends. The President of the United States can incinerate the planet. Seriously, the very idea that we ought to have at or less than the same moral demands placed on the Chief Executive that we place on our next door neighbor is ludicrous and dangerous”
Day 550
Monday 23 July 2018
Day 540
Friday 13 July 2018
Indiana — and, to a smaller extent, Kentucky and Illinois — are still on the hook for millions of dollars to clean up more than 85 contaminated sites across the three states
Day 536
Monday 9 July 2018
Yet what distinguishes the Trump era’s turbulence is the sheer number of his deputies — many of them largely anonymous before his inauguration — who have become the focus of planned and sometimes spontaneous public fury.
Day 509
Tuesday 12 June 2018
Pence told Senate Republicans Tuesday that some training exchanges and readiness training with South Korea will continue
Day 489
Wednesday 23 May 2018
North Korea said on Thursday that it would have second thoughts about a summit meeting between its leader, Kim Jong-un, and President Trump if American officials continued to make what the North considers threats against its leadership.
Day 480
Monday 14 May 2018
While Mr. Trump remains an overpowering personality in Republican politics, he is mostly uninterested in the mechanics of managing a political party. ... So Mr. Trump’s supremely disciplined running mate has stepped into the void.
Day 470
Friday 4 May 2018
This comes after CNN reported Tuesday that Pence's doctor privately raised alarms within the White House last fall that President Donald Trump's doctor Ronny Jackson may have violated federal privacy protections for a key patient -- Pence's wife, Karen
Day 468
Wednesday 2 May 2018
Trump pardoned Arpaio last year after his conviction on a misdemeanor contempt of court charge for ignoring a federal judge’s order to stop detaining people because he merely suspected them of being undocumented immigrants. Arpaio is now a primary candidate for the Republican nomination to succeed the retiring Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.).
Day 466
Monday 30 April 2018
The episode -- detailed in three memos by Pence's physician -- is also the first documentation that has surfaced involving a specific allegation of medical misconduct by Jackson.
Day 465
Sunday 29 April 2018
"I thought giving everyone a gun was to enhance safety. Am I missing something?"
Day 446
Tuesday 10 April 2018
Trump asked that Vice President Mike Pence attend the meeting of the leaders of countries in the Western Hemisphere in his place.
Day 429
Saturday 24 March 2018
According to multiple sources, Vice President Mike Pence played a leading role in the creation of this report... Mattis actually supports open transgender service, but he was effectively overruled by Pence
Day 428
Friday 23 March 2018
“Once we had hopped through every part of the garden, we didn’t want to stop hopping. So, we hopped right inside the old, stuffy house. We hopped up and down the creaky stairs and made beautiful, creaky stair-music together.”
Day 406
Thursday 1 March 2018
Day 397
Tuesday 20 February 2018
It also adds a remarkable coda to the strange tableau during the opening ceremony of Mr. Pence sitting in a reviewing stand less than 10 feet away from Kim Yo-jong, the sister of the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, as the two stared fixedly ahead without acknowledging each other.
Day 392
Thursday 15 February 2018
We rarely have such strong evidence a politician’s claim is false. Contrary to what Pence said, U.S. intelligence agencies did not evaluate whether Russian interference affected the outcome of the 2016 election. It remains an open question whether that interference had an impact on the race.
Day 384
Wednesday 7 February 2018
Mr. Pence’s threat, delivered in Tokyo, came two days after he had signaled openness to meeting with North Korean officials at the Games, somewhat muddying the harsh message he had been sent to project.
Day 369
Tuesday 23 January 2018
The vice president's Middle East trip was originally meant to draw attention to the plight of the region's Christians, but since Trump's Jerusalem declaration, they want nothing to do with him
Day 368
Monday 22 January 2018
Government Shutdown Day 3
Mr. Pence’s statement ... follows President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital last month, a move that overturned decades of American policy and international consensus on the status of the holy city.
Day 366
Saturday 20 January 2018
Government Shutdown Day 1
The public comments were warm and friendly with no mention of the disagreements between the two countries, such as President Trump's decision late last year to formally recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and that Egypt has imprisoned several American citizens, often on questionable charges.
Day 336
Thursday 21 December 2017
The trip was Pence’s first to the war zone as vice president
Day 335
Wednesday 20 December 2017
Over nearly three minutes, Pence offered plaudit after plaudit after plaudit, praising Trump's vision, his words, his strategy and his results in light of the passage of tax cuts. By the end, Pence offered 14 separate commendations for Trump in less than three minutes
Day 333
Monday 18 December 2017
Pence was mindful that Senator John McCain, Republican of Arizona, was returning to his home state for cancer treatment, leaving Republicans with only 51 votes for the tax bill. The vice president wanted to make sure that he was in place to break a tie if it were necessary
Day 322
Thursday 7 December 2017
Day 317
Saturday 2 December 2017
Day 299
Tuesday 14 November 2017
The fact that so many on the campaign, including Donald Trump Jr., reportedly knew about the WikiLeaks communications makes it challenging, at minimum, to believe Pence had no idea.
Day 270
Monday 16 October 2017
“If Pence were to become President for any reason, the government would be run by the Koch brothers—period. He’s been their tool for years”
Pence, who had called global warming “a myth” created by environmentalists in their “latest Chicken Little attempt to raise taxes,” took up the Kochs’ cause.
In the spring of 2015, Pence signed a bill called the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which he presented as innocuous. ... Indiana residents began examining the law more closely, and discovered that it essentially legalized discrimination against homosexuals by businesses in the state.
“The one thing you could count on with Pence was interpersonal decency, which made it strange that he joined the Trump ticket, the most indecent ticket any party’s ever put together,”
When the conversation turned to gay rights, Trump motioned toward Pence and joked, “Don’t ask that guy—he wants to hang them all!”
Day 263
Monday 9 October 2017
Day 262
Sunday 8 October 2017
This means that Pence traveled from Las Vegas to Indianapolis, walked out of a football game, then traveled back to the West Coast — all in the space of 24 hours, and all using taxpayer dollars, including for the extra security at the game because of his presence.
Day 228
Monday 4 September 2017
Trump’s $1 trillion plan to rebuild America’s infrastructure may be unprecedented in size and ambition, but it mimics a controversial scheme championed by Vice President Mike Pence when he was the governor of Indiana.
Day 224
Thursday 31 August 2017
...hugging storm victims, directly offering words of encouragement, and dripping sweat as he helped clear debris.
Day 209
Wednesday 16 August 2017
“I stand with the president, and I stand by those words.”
Day 206
Sunday 13 August 2017
In his remarks Sunday, the vice president made it clear that he also had no sympathy for the groups that confronted the white supremacists as they marched.
Day 205
Saturday 12 August 2017
“He possesses the judgment to stay away from things that can create problems later”
Day 201
Tuesday 8 August 2017
Ayers had for months been quietly warning the vice president that Trump’s troubles could cause collateral damage and that he needed to take a more aggressive posture on a range of issues to ensure he enters the post-Trump era on solid ground
Day 199
Sunday 6 August 2017
Calling it "disgraceful and offensive," Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday denounced a New York Times report that he is quietly building his own shadow campaign for 2020.
Day 198
Saturday 5 August 2017
Pence’s schedule is so full of political events that Republicans joke that he is acting more like a second-term vice president hoping to clear the field than a No. 2 sworn in a little over six months ago.
Day 194
Tuesday 1 August 2017
...even though he has “concerns” about the measure
Day 192
Sunday 30 July 2017
...he came bearing a message from the president: “Russia’s destabilizing activities, its support for rogue regimes, its activities in Ukraine, are unacceptable.”
Day 169
Friday 7 July 2017
While examining a piece of "Critical Space Flight Hardware" that was labeled "DO NOT TOUCH," Pence went ahead and, well, touched it.
Day 148
Friday 16 June 2017
...he is widely viewed by Republicans on Capitol Hill as the de facto leader of the GOP—not just the safety parachute for a free-falling presidency, but a polished, respected statesman from whom members can take their cues.
Day 147
Thursday 15 June 2017
Pence’s move to hire an outside attorney could set off a scramble among other West Wing aides — many of whom are already bracing for subpoenas — to do the same
Day 139
Wednesday 7 June 2017
No explanation for the cancelation was given, despite the fact that the interview had already been promoted on the air on Tuesday.
Day 134
Friday 2 June 2017
Pence says the climate deal would have burdened taxpayers and he doesn’t understand why Democrats have made the issue a priority.
Day 120
Friday 19 May 2017
Mike Pence would like you to know that Mike Pence is not involved in any of this.
Day 118
Wednesday 17 May 2017
In the unlikely event that Trump is removed from office, Pence would assume the presidency amid a constitutional crisis. He could also be considered tainted by his past devotion to Trump.
Day 95
Monday 24 April 2017
...one of Pence's aides "cited the amount of issues on deck in Washington this week — between health care, the continuing resolution and tax reform."
Day 93
Saturday 22 April 2017
"President Trump has made it clear that we'll honor the agreement — that doesn't mean we admire the agreement"
Day 92
Friday 21 April 2017
Pence arrived in Sydney on Friday for what experts called a “reassurance mission”
Day 90
Wednesday 19 April 2017
Day 89
Tuesday 18 April 2017
“...the United States seeks stronger and more balanced bilateral trade relationships with every country, including Japan,” Pence said
Day 87
Sunday 16 April 2017
"America has always sought peace through strength, and my message here today standing with U.S. forces Korea, standing with courageous soldiers from the Republic of Korea, is a message of resolve."
Day 86
Saturday 15 April 2017
His travels to the region, including stops in South Korea and Japan beginning Sunday, come amid indications that North Korea is potentially preparing its sixth nuclear test in a decade
To be sure, the program isn’t perfect, they say. But they overwhelmingly give more positive reviews than not.
Day 71
Friday 31 March 2017
Vice President Pence appeared to notice the mistake, turning back to grab materials off the president's desk and leaving the room with them.
We have a president who brags about grabbing women by the pussy — and a vice president who won’t even have dinner with them. These are two sides of the same coin
Day 70
Thursday 30 March 2017
Pence and Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson, who is recovering from back surgery and used a walker inside the chamber, were dramatically summoned to the Capitol to help pass the measure by a razor-thin margin.
“It just would not be right for me to sit here alone with a woman-shaped container, particularly one as shapely as this.”
The reaction was swift and extremely polarized. Many on the right quickly interpreted the tweet as the media somehow being shocked — shocked! — that a conservative Christian couple would establish such boundaries. ... On the left, meanwhile, the Pences' arrangement was one that reeked of sexism and a bygone era
Day 53
Monday 13 March 2017
...if you’re looking at the White House’s motley crew and assuming that Mike Pence is the honest one of the bunch, you may be grading on an overly generous curve.
Day 43
Friday 3 March 2017
The thing about email is that it’s extremely easy to fake.
Day 42
Thursday 2 March 2017
Cybersecurity experts say the emails raise concerns about whether such sensitive information was adequately protected from hackers ... In fact, Pence's personal account was hacked last summer.
Day 37
Saturday 25 February 2017
...there's one problem: that's not Israel's flag. The person tweeting used the Nicaraguan flag in both tweets, which vaguely resembles the Israeli flag
Day 35
Thursday 23 February 2017
Thousands of people will attend the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) right outside of the nation’s capital this week
Day 33
Tuesday 21 February 2017
Day 32
Monday 20 February 2017
But nobody is quite sure if these surrogates truly speak for Mr. Trump or whether, even if they do, Mr. Trump might soon change his mind.
Day 18
Monday 6 February 2017
Pence’s answer was straight out of the fascist playbook. First came the Putinesque emphasis on “action,” “decisiveness,” and “leadership.” [...] Next came the appeal to “safety and security.” [...] Then came the scorn for “niceties”
Day 16
Saturday 4 February 2017
A final vote is expected Tuesday, and as it stands, Vice President Mike Pence is expected to be summoned to the Capitol to push DeVos over the top.
Day 8
Friday 27 January 2017
I was homeschooled and my parents were part of a subculture called Quiverfull, whose aim is to outbreed everyone for Jesus.
Vice President Mike Pence and Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway headlining this year’s event