A week after publicly donning a face mask for the first time after months of rejection, President Donald Trump, who still opposes a national mask mandate, posted a photo of himself wearing a face mask, declaring that “many people says “he is” patriotic “to wear a mask.
“We are united in our effort to defeat China’s Invisible Virus, and many people say it is patriotic to wear a face mask when you cannot socially distance yourself,” he wrote. “There is no one more patriotic than me, your favorite president!”
In an interview with Chris Wallace of Fox News, the president, who only wore a mask publicly once and challenged the mask’s guidelines in the past, said he was a “believer in masks,” but failed to endorse a mandate. federal, saying “I leave it to the governors. Meanwhile, on Monday morning, US Surgeon General Jerome Adams literally pleaded with Fox News viewers to wear masks to stop the spread of the virus that killed more than 140,000 Americans.
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