Mike Pence somehow wasn’t “offended” by the Hamilton cast’s calls for unity

On Friday night, Vice President-elect Mike Pence decided to start enjoying some of the benefits afforded to a person whose political status has just risen unpredictably high by taking in a showing of the smash-hit Broadway sensation Hamilton. Unfortunately for Pence, he happens to have a bit of a reputation for being anti-gay and anti-education, so the rest of the Hamilton audience decided to express it’s opinion of Pence with a stream of boos and jeers hurled in his general direction. Then, after the show, the Hamilton cast stepped forward and directly addressed Pence, expressing that “the diverse America” is “alarmed and anxious” about whether or out Donald Trump’s administration will truly do its best to protect them, their children, and their “inalienable rights.”
It came across as a respectful and heartfelt plea for unity, so Trump naturally took it as a vicious attack and a grievous insult. He proceeded to spend a lot of his Saturday denouncing Hamilton and demanding apologies from the cast, but in a direct illustration of the differences between someone who has spent years as a politician and someone who has spent years yelling at C-level celebrities on a reality show, Pence himself has decided to take a more even-handed approach.