Conservative commentator George Will has made a “horrifying” discovery about the Trump administration.
No longer is President Trump the “worst person in government.” That honor is now given to Vice President Mike Pence, Will wrote in his latest column for the Washington Post.
Though he still has no love of Trump, who trashed Will’s intellect during the 2016 campaign and paved the way to Will parting from the Republican Party, Will said unlike his unwieldy boss, Pence is a more of a threat.
“Trump is what he is, a floundering, inarticulate jumble of gnawing insecurities and not-at-all compensating vanities, which is pathetic,” Will stated at the end of his column. “Pence is what he has chosen to be, which is horrifying.”
Will also said that Trump, “with his feral cunning, knew.”
“The oleaginous Mike Pence, with his talent for toadyism and appetite for obsequiousness, could, Trump knew, become America’s most repulsive public figure,” Will wrote.
Focusing on Pence, Will portrays the VP as being a self-righteous, calculating individual who is willing to make a scene.
Taking aim at Pence’s decision to leave a Colts game after 20 minutes last October, Will said, “Pence and his retinue flew to Indiana for the purpose of walking out of an Indianapolis Colts football game, thereby demonstrating that football players kneeling during the national anthem are intolerable to someone of Pence’s refined sense of right and wrong.”
Pence’s speech in Arizona last week also irked Will. There, Pence, “oozing unctuousness from every pore, called Arpaio ‘another favorite,’ professed himself ‘honored’ by Arpaio’s presence, and praised him as ‘a tireless champion of … the rule of law,'” wrote Will.
That salute was widely covered by the media. Arpaio was pardoned by Trump last year. The ex-sheriff was convicted of criminal contempt related to his hard-line tactics dealing with illegal immigrants.
Will noted that Republican Sen. John McCain, who was at his Arizona home nearby recovering from treatment related to brain cancer, could “teach Pence — or perhaps not — something about honor.”
