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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPence served Thanksgiving dinner at Military base while Trump dined at Mar-A-Lago
http://www.newsweek.com/mike-pence-karen-pence-thanksgiving-military-donald-trump-721243
While President Donald Trump and his family prepared to sit down for a holiday feast at their Florida mansion, Vice President Mike Pence and his wife, Karen, were headed to a military installation to dish one out.
With the president at his 20-acre Palm Beach estate, the Pences spent Thanksgiving at Naval Air Station Meridian in Mississippi, where their son, Michael, is training to be a Marine aviator. They were there to serve, not be served.
Pence's dedication to marking the holidays with a salute to the military isn't new. Nor is the often sharp contrast of the optics of his public appearances with those of Trump, whose Thanksgiving in Florida marked the 100th day of his presidency he's spent at one of his private properties.
Twin States News posted a Facebook photo of Pence wearing an apron and gloves and giving a thumbs-up to his wife beside him. A second picture showed the couple smiling alongside uniformed servicemembers.
While President Donald Trump and his family prepared to sit down for a holiday feast at their Florida mansion, Vice President Mike Pence and his wife, Karen, were headed to a military installation to dish one out.
With the president at his 20-acre Palm Beach estate, the Pences spent Thanksgiving at Naval Air Station Meridian in Mississippi, where their son, Michael, is training to be a Marine aviator. They were there to serve, not be served.
Pence's dedication to marking the holidays with a salute to the military isn't new. Nor is the often sharp contrast of the optics of his public appearances with those of Trump, whose Thanksgiving in Florida marked the 100th day of his presidency he's spent at one of his private properties.
Twin States News posted a Facebook photo of Pence wearing an apron and gloves and giving a thumbs-up to his wife beside him. A second picture showed the couple smiling alongside uniformed servicemembers.
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Pence served Thanksgiving dinner at Military base while Trump dined at Mar-A-Lago (Original Post)
Miles Archer
Nov 2017
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dalton99a
(81,488 posts)1. The snake is trying to put together a presidential photo album
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)3. Of course...it's all about the "optics"...
...like Paul Ryan "washing" already-clean pots and pans in that soup kitchen a couple of years ago.
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)2. Pence is working so hard to appear Presidential
Too bad his little Kabuki theater will mean nothing when it is revealed that he wasn't as "clueless" about Russia as he claims...
It doesn't work for me....I am not buying this act...
Irish_Dem
(47,070 posts)5. I know, he wants the job so bad he can taste it. What a fake wad.
Hope Mueller has Pence in his sights.
Though Mueller may figure he cannot get both the Pres and VP.
Has to leave one of them standing.
shanny
(6,709 posts)4. Proving that he has more political instincts than cheeto.
There's a shocker! and also too not difficult. Still a puke tho.
Upthevibe
(8,051 posts)6. dt's an idiot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)7. Pence had better be careful
Some of his Christian friends won't like that. Although it would be even worse if he was serving the poor.
fierywoman
(7,683 posts)8. I guess there were no bigger and better homeless shelters in Palm Beach
for f-ing moron & family to serve at to out-do the Obamas.