Nice try, Mike Pence, you buffoon!

| 11:05 pm EDT May 7, 2020
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When Mike Pence refused to wear a mask while visiting a hospital and interacting with patients and medical professionals, it created a major scandal for him. When he tried lying about the whole thing, it just dragged out the controversy. Pence ended up having to publicly admit during a town hall that he should’t have done it.

Pence really only got off the hook when Donald Trump also refused to wear a mask during a subsequent visit to a mask making factory, thus attracting all the controversy for himself. But Pence apparently decided that he wanted to out-stupid Trump, because today Pence visited a nursing home as a stunt.

The media filmed Mike Pence pulling a few boxes of personal protective equipment out of a van and putting it inside the front door of the nursing home. Pence wasn’t wearing a mask or gloves, and did nothing to try to prevent the boxes from being potentially contaminated. Nor were social distancing guidelines followed. Then, as Pence and his people were posing for a picture, he suddenly tried to space everyone out.

Does Mike Pence not know how anything works? Rachel Maddow broadcast the embarrassing footage on her show on Thursday night, reminding everyone that Pence is a complete buffoon. The supply boxes he touched will have to be disinfected or disproved of. And this comes even as we learned today that Donald Trump’s personal valet at the White House has exposed Trump to coronavirus. Even as we wait to see if Trump gets sick, was Pence also exposed? Did he just pass it along to a nursing home? Idiots.