Although this may seem like a fairly measured response, your newly elected Tweeter-in-Chief did not see things that way.

This isn't the first time that Donald Trump has offered a verifiably false version of events that borders on the absurd, but it might be the most disingenuous. Mike Pence attended a show that prominently and proudly features talented performers that he would send to gay conversion therapy if he had his way. Those plaintively protesting that the vice president-elect deserves more "respect" than this are conflating respect with dissent and repudiation of bigotry. Many, many people do not care for Donald Trump and Mike Pence, and the fact that the pair won the election does nothing to eviscerate anyone's right to make those feelings clear.

Sending Pence to Hamilton, the inner sanctum of the godless liberal mecca that is New York City, seems crazy, but maybe it's crazy like a fox. So far, Trump's transition from bombastic candidate to chief executive has been characterized by embarrassing infighting and genuinely stunning reports of how alarmingly unprepared he is for the task of governing. Just yesterday, the president-elect of the United States had to settle a state-initiated fraud lawsuit against him for $25 million. It's probably not the start he envisioned, to say the least.