A little while ago things began to get even more demonstrably insane over at Meltdown Trump Headquarters. No, it wasn’t the news that there was another brand of candy that needed to distance itself from Donald Trump. It wasn’t that Republicans everywhere continue to jump off like rats from a sinking ship. It was that Governor Mike Pence, after canceling an appearance in Wisconsin with Speaker Paul Ryan, looked like he might be trying to find a hole in the sinking Republican ship to escape from. The toughest part for the silver-haired running mate is that he’s stuck in that sinking ship’s captain’s cabin. Or is he even on the ship anymore?

After Gov. Pence stepped in a pile of Trump late yesterday, word leaked that Pence had called up the tiniest hands in the business to say he needed at least 48 hours to hide his face. Up until late Saturday, this was the scene on Donald Trump’s official campaign website, in the schedule section.

For about two hours we all waited with bated breath. At around 3:40 PT, the schedule was finally updated. Gov. Pence promised to be at Charlotte and Fayetteville, North Carolina, on Monday where he will probably say that Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine keep saying terrible words to describe women’s “private parts,” and he wishes they would stop. Well, that’s 48 hours where Pence can pretend he hasn’t set fire to his entire career.

Unfortunately, there’s the promise of more dirty talk from Pence’s boss.

x As a producer on seasons 1 & 2 of #theapprentice I assure you: when it comes to the #trumptapes there are far worse. #justthebegininng Ã¢ÂÂ Bill Pruitt (@billpruitt) October 8, 2016

If I were betting man, I’d bet on that above statement being true.