Vice President-elect Mike Pence and his family arrived in Washington Monday and brought with them family cats Oreo and Pickle and rabbit Marlon Bundo.
Thanks to @usairforce for a great flight to Washington, DC with Karen, Charlotte, Oreo, Pickle and our rabbit, Marlon Bundo. pic.twitter.com/zKzZYcI9OE
— Mike Pence (@mike_pence) January 9, 2017
Twitter reaction to Marlon Bundo was favorable.
my goal for 2017 is to befriend the Pence family so I can get close to their rabbit, Marlon Bundo https://t.co/8b80f0uTfy
— Haley Byrd (@byrdinator) January 9, 2017
OK… I’ve been a Pence skeptic, but the fact that he has a rabbit called Marlon Bundo has softened me. https://t.co/OzXvQo87Dy
— Liz Mair (@LizMair) January 9, 2017
The rabbit’s name is MARLON BUNDO and this makes me very happy/I can’t stop laughing. https://t.co/S3oj8QVJSh
— Kate Nocera (@KateNocera) January 9, 2017
Marlon Bundo has made regular public appearances for Indiana Statehood Day since at least 2014.
Here w/ Pence pets Saphira & Marlon Bundo-they love the attention from these #statehoodday visitors! @GovPenceIN pic.twitter.com/5IK7ft8XYZ
— Karen Pence (@FirstLadyIN) December 11, 2015
It’s #StatehoodDay & First Bunny Marlon Bundo has joined 4th graders to celebrate Indiana’s 198th birthday! pic.twitter.com/NukCAt22W1
— Karen Pence (@FirstLadyIN) December 11, 2014
Though the incoming vice president has been in and out of Washington since the election, Monday’s trip “emotionally” signified “them coming to D.C.,” an aide said.
Karen Pence and daughter Charlotte each carried a cat off the plane. Marlon Bundo was carried off by aides.
Pence family moves to DC.
Aides deplaned their bunny Marlon Bundo. VP-elect’s wife and daughter Charlotte carried the cats, Oreo and Pickles pic.twitter.com/LIztFN64D0— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) January 9, 2017