Mike Pence without a mask at the Mayo Clinic starts trending because Mike Pence is an #@&*$@#%*

Our country’s feckless leadership continues proving over and over again how and why we are in the current pandemic mess we are in. On Tuesday, there was a video of Vice President Mike Pence visiting with patients and staff at the world-renowned Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. What stood out in the video was how Pence did not wear the clinic’s required face mask. Everybody else did. Just not Mike. Was it a show of fealty to the world’s dumbest leader? Did the Lord come to Mike in a dream and tell Mike that he too is Jesus? Who knows?

After the video went around, the Mayo Clinic tweeted out that they had informed the vice president of their mask policy before his arrival. That tweet has now been deleted. The mixture of Pence’s dangerous behavior and the Mayo Clinic’s quick retraction brought #MayoClinic and #MayoClinicPence to the top of the trending lists.

PENCE flouts Mayo Clinic policy that everyone on campus wear a mask, even as he meets with staff and a patient. pic.twitter.com/kfo64KQDhU

— Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) April 28, 2020

The clinic’s response and second response, in one tweet.

In response to questions about why Pence wasn’t wearing a mask, the Mayo Clinic tweeted this earlier. Then they deleted it. So that’s normal. pic.twitter.com/7peNxMxx7t

— shauna (@goldengateblond) April 28, 2020

And then the replies came.

What was the point of @MayoClinic deleting their tweet?

To create plausible deniability that Pence, THE HEAD OF THE CORONAVIRUS TASKFORCE, DIDN'T KNOW TO WEAR A FACE MASK INSIDE OF THE MAYO CLINIC?

— Matt Rogers (@Politidope) April 28, 2020

"Mayo Clinic, you like that PPE we let you buy? Be a real shame if something were to happen to it." https://t.co/O1xQmuuC0N

— The Blackhanders (@theblackhanders) April 28, 2020

There’s a lot of evidence for this gangster-inspired theory.

Mayo Clinic is a liberal conspiracy!! Just ask @realdonaldtrump

— Conservativ (@Conservaturd1) April 28, 2020

Fair enough. Science and helping others seem to be exclusively partisan qualities these days.

the Mayo Clinic, what do they know about anything related to medicine, I'm going with Captain Clorox

— Jon Danziger (@jondanziger) April 28, 2020

Of course, there was the general bewilderment at our current administration’s mind-bending, confusing moves.

@WhiteHouse @realDonaldTrump @VP @PressSec What’s the reason behind this. He’s not wearing a mask. Despite the Mayo Clinic’s Policy. Even violating CDC Guidelines. Potentially putting others in danger. No Social Distancing measures at all. pic.twitter.com/pQncUpBLIg

— PerryLawrence (@lawrence1979Ak) April 28, 2020

And there were others who wanted to remind everyone that Mike Pence didn’t just show up yesterday. He’s been an incompetent theocrat for decades now.

Watching VP Mike Pence break the rules at the Mayo Clinic today by not wearing a mask makes it REALLY easy to understand how he botched the response to the HIV epidemic breakout in Indiana a few years ago.

He's not all that competent.

But I'm sure he'll self-congratulate. pic.twitter.com/fjN0obUaup

— Russell Drew (@RussOnPolitics) April 28, 2020

And then there was the humor we look toward to get us through this madness.

waiting for the LIBERATE MAYO CLINIC tweet from trump

— Michael Tisserand (@m_tisserand) April 28, 2020

Pence standing in the middle of the Mayo Clinic with no mask is about the most Mike Pence thing I’ve seen since pic.twitter.com/EqdNafwACq

— Angry Staffer (@AngrierWHStaff) April 28, 2020

And finally,

Pence... pic.twitter.com/Dvy593yMpx

— Karen Waldorf (@mrjoeywhiskers) April 28, 2020