Pence's eight-car motorcade ruffles feathers on Michigan's Mackinac Island, where cars are banned

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Vice President Mike Pence arrived at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island in an eight-vehicle motorcade Saturday, prompting cries of "sacrilege" on social media. Pence flew to Michigan Saturday morning before taking a helicopter to the small Mackinac Island airport.

Pence, who spoke at the Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference, traveled to and from the airport with a cluster of monster SUVs shipped to the island Friday night. It was the first-ever motorcade on Mackinac .

Cars are banned on the island, and that century-old ban is integral to its charm. When President Gerald Ford visited the island in 1975 he and first lady Betty Ford traveled by horse-drawn carriage.

To some, the Pence motorcade on the bucolic island is the latest outrage of the Donald Trump presidency. Ron Fournier, a Detroit native who covered Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama, said the motorcade was "obscene."
For Phil Anderson of Winona, Minn., who was cycling on the island Saturday, it was no big deal. Anderson said: "The wonderful president and the wonderful vice president have to get out and meet people and they can't walk from the airport."

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[Mazeltov Cocktail]

1. As the Government of Ireland said of Pence's visit...

"He was an invited guest in our home and he $h!t on the rug".

[smirkymonkey]

3. +1000

Exactly what he did. Such a disrespectful pig.

[Roland99]

2. Wanna know why he did it??

I know why #Loser @VP had to bring vehicles to #Mackinac for the first ever:

Mother, @SecondLady, couldn’t bear to see a horse’s behind while sitting next to a horse’s ass