Not Rico's vice president

The Washington Post has an article by Jenna Johnson about a dumb move by a dumb guy:

It was the sort of photo just begging to be hilariously captioned, mocked on Twitter, and photoshopped. During a visit to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Vice President Pence solemnly reached out and touched the Orion spacecraft's titanium forward bay cover, placing his full palm just below a sign that read: Critical Space Flight Hardware 'DO NOT TOUCH.'
Mike Brown, a photographer for Reuters, captured the moment and his photo was soon devoured by the Internet, eventually forcing NASA to release a statement saying that it was okay for Pence to touch the space hardware, and prompting the vice president to post a self-deprecating response on Friday afternoon.
The tweets and photoshopped pictures started slowly Thursday night, and became a full-blown meme by midday Friday. Several people compared the photo to one of Trump touching a glowing orb during his visit to Saudi Arabia:

 

An iOS developer noted that the three bolts below Pence's hand formed “an appalled face”. Thanks to Photoshop, Pence was suddenly spotted in an Indiana Jones scene, stroking the belly of a reptile, and next to a sunbathing New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie and touching MC Hammer as the Hammer song U Can't Touch This:

Several people tied the photo to reports that Pence calls his wife “Mother” and that he never dines alone with women. Early Friday morning, writer and Twitter personality Shauna Wright tweeted the photo with this thought: “Suddenly I understand why he won't have dinner with a woman who isn't his wife”. Hours later, author Jason Miller of Nashville tweeted this caption: “Pence looked left, then right. Mother wasn't anywhere around. He smiled to himself. He would touch.” The popular Twitter personality @nycsouthpaw jumped in to note that “in Pence's defense, 'DO NOT TOUCH' is in quotes.”
Friday afternoon, Pence got in on the joke and joined the mocking. He tweeted a blurred version of the photo that highlighted Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio and circled the senator's face, along with this message: “Sorry @NASA …@MarcoRubio dared me to do it!” He then followed up with a photoshopped picture showing him petting a porcupine with the caption: “Okay, so this isn't exactly the first time this has happened.”

Rico says maybe we should not have Trump whacked, if this is what we get afterwards... (And what idiot pets a porcupine, anyway?)