Trump tweets the image of himself with a mask and calls him ‘patriotic’

The image appears to show Trump wearing a mask with the presidential seal on his visit to the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center earlier this month, his first and only time so far with a public face covering after months of refusing to be seen. do what. in public amid the coronavirus pandemic.

For months, attendees tried to get Trump to wear a mask, saying they could have “MAGA,” “Trump-Pence 2020,” or even the American flag printed on them. But he firmly refused and only wore a mask once in public.

But it wasn’t until a meeting with campaign aides at the White House last week, where aides bluntly told him that even internal numbers showed that the Americans did not approve of his response, which Trump relented, according to an official who attended that meeting.

Trump’s agreement to wear a mask in public on Walter Reed came after a strong “plea” by attendees, according to a presidential adviser, who urged the president to set an example for his followers by wearing a mask on the visit. But Trump was reluctant, in part, because he did not want to give in to media pressure.

But as the number of coronavirus cases grew in various states, including major Republican and battlefield states, and more Republican officials publicly endorsed the use of masks in an attempt to depoliticize it, efforts to convince Trump to support The use of a mask increased.

In early spring, Trump teased Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden for wearing a mask, and during a press conference in April, he suggested he wouldn’t look presidential.

“(S) as he is sitting in the Oval Office behind that beautiful resolved desk … I think wearing a face mask while greeting presidents, prime ministers, dictators, kings, queens. I don’t know, somehow I don’t see for myself Maybe he will change his mind, “Trump said at the time.