Trump Confirms Pence’s NFL Walkout Staged, Twitter Blasts Them for Costing American Taxpayers

“Be The Kind of Person Who Makes Mike Pence Leave”

Following Mike Pence’s departure from Sunday’s NFL game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Indianapolis Colts, Donald Trump confirmed the walkout was pre-meditated—a political stunt at the American taxpayers’ expense.

“I asked [Vice President] Pence to leave stadium if any players kneeled, disrespecting our country,” Trump tweeted not long after Pence’s clearly-planned infographic tweet on the matter. “I am proud of him and [Second Lady] Karen.”

Prior to his walkout, Pence had tweeted a photo of he and Karen Pence “at the game.” Following his walkout, however, Twitter noted that the photo was actually from November 2014. Though he did, some suggested, change the filter:

Others on Twitter took issue with paying for the vice president’s political stunt, or for encouraging division in America:

Activist Nick Jack Pappas may have said it best:

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