Sunday’s NFL game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Indianapolis Colts was scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. Eastern time. By 1:24 p.m., Vice President Mike Pence’s official Twitter account had posted this.
“I stand with @POTUS Trump, I stand with our soldiers, and I will always stand for our Flag and our National Anthem.
- Vice President Pence (@VP) October 8, 2017”
A graphic - complete with the appropriate social media information - was the tail end of a thread of tweets that conveyed the same message. The thread began at 1:08 p.