The Trump project sent an e-mail to fans on Wednesday prompting them to wear face masks in public, stating doing so was “patriotic”– after the president invested months demeaning making use of face coverings as a political act versus him.
” We are all in this together, and while I know there has actually been some confusion surrounding the use of face masks, I think it’s something we ought to all try to do when we are not able to be socially distanced from others,” the email, generally sent to request contributions, stated. “I don’t enjoy using them either.
The missive doesn’t note that President Donald Trump himself had till recently contributed to that confusion even as the coronavirus pandemic rose around the country following a spate of reopening steps. The president has at times mocked presumptive Democratic candidate Joe Biden for wearing a mask and initially said in April that he just didn’t “see it” for himself when the Centers for Disease Control and Avoidance recommended that masks be used in public.
Trump wore a mask in public for the first time last month during a check out to Walter Reed N