Marlon Bundo Is Complicit
PoliticsThere aren’t many bunnies out there with the attention-grabbing skills of Marlon Bundo Pence, a soft rabbit belonging to the second family. Then again, as demonstrated in the new children’s book Marlon Bundo’s a Day in the Life of the Vice President, there aren’t many bunnies with the audacity to use their good looks and pleasant demeanor as a fluffy tool of mass obfuscation.
Marlon Bundo’s a Day in the Life of the Vice President, out today under conservative publishing house Regnery Publishing, was written by Second Daughter Charlotte Pence and illustrated in watercolor by Second Lady Karen Pence, an art therapy advocate and craft enthusiast. A portion of the proceeds will go to charity. Bundo, also known as BOTUS, is a uniquely long-lived member of the Pence family menagerie, which also includes Australian shepherd Harley, the kitten Hazel, the recently deceased cats Pickle and Oreo (RIP), the recently deceased beagle Maverick (RIP), and 30,000 bees.
But Bundo is no mere pet, content to hop and poop and sniff things. With nearly 18,000 Instagram followers, he has become a living symbol of the second family—and one whose mass appeal outperforms other plausible family symbol options, such as a small wooden cross clutched in a bleeding white fist, or the word “Mother” spelled out in corroded oil pipelines, or Mike Pence.
Bundo, according to the book jacket, “is sure to hop right into your heart!”
This may be true over at the Washington Post, but I disagree in the strongest terms. Marlon Bundo is cute, I’ll admit, but it is an indisputable fact that underneath his huge blinky eyes and nice fat tummy lies the twisted heart of a dirty trickster. Does he really think he can pull the wool over our eyes? Or fur, I guess? Who does Marlon Bundo think he is, Jennifer Lawrence in the critically panned spy film Red Sparrow? I would ask him, but it seems that he can only communicate in verse.
A Day in the Life of the Vice President is a quick read, yet the questions it raises are legion. Bundo’s “big job,” the book’s press release tells us, is to give readers “a bunny’s eye view of the special duties of the vice president.”