The Trump campaign on Monday halted the sale of face-to-face market coverage, months after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) first recommended masks as a way to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
The campaign store has a red mask that has the word “Trump” on it, and a blue mask with “MAGA” printed on it, a reference to the slogan of the president’s campaign. Each costs $ 15.
The masks provide supporters “with new ways to show their support President Trump
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The Trump campaign’s decision to capitalize on masks follows presumptive Democratic nominees Joe Biden
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Some Republican organizations have already sold brand masks. In early May, the Texas GOP began selling campaign-themed masks.
The president had long opposed the use of masks in the early months of the pandemic. He mocked a picture of Biden wearing a mask after a Memorial Day event, and mocked the idea of wearing one himself, after the CDC first recommended them to Americans who could not distance themselves socially.
Trump has shifted his public comments on the use of masks in recent weeks as case numbers and deaths in the United States continue to rise and as he seeks to recreate himself as the face of the government’s reaction to ‘ and pandemic.
Trump wore a mask on camera for the first time in mid-July during a visit to Walter Reed Medical Center. He has been doing this a few times since. At his almost daily coronavirus briefings, Trump typically urges Americans to “wear a mask when distance is not possible.”
The president held a few outdoor games on Monday in which some supporters wore face masks while others did not. The attendees sat close together.
Updated at 8:42 p.m.
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