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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks between U.S. Vice President Mike Pence and First Lady Melania Trump during a 2018 Hurricane Briefing at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Headquarters on June 6, 2018 in Washington, DC. (Photo: Yuri Gripas - Pool/Getty Images)
'Funny, But on Another Level, Oh So Disturbing': Watch Mike Pence's Horrifying, Sycophantic Water Bottle Moment
"It's probably one of his 'signals' with Pence: 'If I put my water bottle on the floor that means I hate what they're saying—if you agree, put your water bottle on the floor.'"
Jun 07, 2018
Vice President Mike Pence seeeth. Vice President Mike Pence doeth.
In a moment that quickly went viral and became the source of laughter (as well as concern), Pence was captured in an extreme sycophantic moment as he robotically removed a water bottle from a conference table after President Donald Trump--for no good reason that anyone on Earth has yet thought of--did so first.
Watch:
In response, Twitter howled:
As others observed, Trump has a thing about moving items around while seated at a conference table:
Might be hard for Pence to keep up with all that.
Meanwhile, in more significant news and during the same FEMA meeting, Pence also did this:
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Vice President Mike Pence seeeth. Vice President Mike Pence doeth.
In a moment that quickly went viral and became the source of laughter (as well as concern), Pence was captured in an extreme sycophantic moment as he robotically removed a water bottle from a conference table after President Donald Trump--for no good reason that anyone on Earth has yet thought of--did so first.
Watch:
In response, Twitter howled:
As others observed, Trump has a thing about moving items around while seated at a conference table:
Might be hard for Pence to keep up with all that.
Meanwhile, in more significant news and during the same FEMA meeting, Pence also did this:
Vice President Mike Pence seeeth. Vice President Mike Pence doeth.
In a moment that quickly went viral and became the source of laughter (as well as concern), Pence was captured in an extreme sycophantic moment as he robotically removed a water bottle from a conference table after President Donald Trump--for no good reason that anyone on Earth has yet thought of--did so first.
Watch:
In response, Twitter howled:
As others observed, Trump has a thing about moving items around while seated at a conference table:
Might be hard for Pence to keep up with all that.
Meanwhile, in more significant news and during the same FEMA meeting, Pence also did this:
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