(Credit: AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File) When Vice President Mike Pence walked out to express his dissatisfaction with NFL players’ national anthem protests, he was executing a plan that had been orchestrated with his boss, President Donald Trump. Journalists who joined Pence and his wife, Second Lady Karen Pence, were told by a staffer that they should stay in their vans because “there may be an early departure from the game,” according to CNN.