Mike Pence is often the butt of jokes. The vice president is spoofed almost weekly on Saturday Night Live as a buttoned-down square and prude. Late-night host Stephen Colbert has described Pence as “a manila envelope taped to a beige wall.”
In the age of Donald Trump, a vice president like Pence often gets little attention. After all, Pence, the former governor of Indiana, did not have the national profile that Trump had attained as a reality TV star. Even after Trump put Pence in charge of the administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, the president, for better or worse, was still the one who garnered all the attention.
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