President Donald Trump just accidentally gave Vice President Mike Pence a new last name, and it’s already starting to stick.
While speaking Thursday evening at the annual Republican retreat in Baltimore, Trump pronounced Vice President Mike Pence’s last name as “pounce.”
America, meet… Mike Pounce.
People on Twitter reacted by mocking the president — and wondering whether the obsequious Pence might change his name to cover up Trump’s error.
"Mike Pounce" pic.twitter.com/k6uo1YInwg
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 13, 2019
Mike Pounce sounds like someone who guest MCed a Beastie Boys track.https://t.co/lNvGtOeLHs
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) September 13, 2019
“Dementia, party of one, please be sedated.”
— Spiro Agnew’s Ghost (@SpiroAgnewGhost) September 13, 2019
yall know mike gonna tweet tomorrow that he has legally changed his name to mike pounce right? https://t.co/R1XczWsAL6
— m i t h (@ManlnTheHoody) September 13, 2019
Mike Pence and Mike Pounce pic.twitter.com/zen0vYgJXJ
— Jeva Lange (@Jee_vuh) September 13, 2019
meanwhile the president just called his Vice President Mike Pounce so everything is fine
— Kate Bennett (@KateBennett_DC) September 13, 2019
The day after he will claim his name has always been Mike Pounce.
— Marc Wilson (@sparcus87) September 13, 2019
Lol!!! Mike Pounce, bigoted anti-gay cat! #MikePounce https://t.co/IkiPe85k1V
— RickeG (@ricketiki) September 13, 2019
Tomorrow, VP's legal name change paperwork will submitted and photoshopped Trump/Pounce 2016 signs will be spread across the internet.https://t.co/Dp02hxxXH6
— Average Joe (@Fight4Goodness) September 13, 2019
— Yasrama (@Abiondi04) September 13, 2019
Mike Pounce is a great name for a book series about an ultraconservative cat. https://t.co/8vlbrChJJk
— James Oliphant (@jamesoliphant) September 13, 2019
Mike Pounce, Scott Free, Tim Apple, Marillyn Lockheed, Pleasure not Paradise, Moon of Mars, Kidney in the Heart, Frederick Douglass’ great things, Covfefe, hamberders, wheel that is older than the wall, people being massacred in Bowling Green, smocking guns. All good, right?
— Trent Capelli (@TrentCapelli) September 13, 2019
