President Donald Trump has finally done one thing to lead by example: He is wearing a face mask and telling his supporters it’s patriotic to do so – although not asking or telling them to wear one. After months and months of refusing wear a mask, even when he announced the CDC’s new guidelines that called for mask-wearing to help slow the spread of the coronavirus, Trump finally realizes his re-election is at stake.
It was April 3 when he declared, “I won’t be doing it personally.”
Trump wore a face mask when visiting Walter Reed on July 11.
But as recently as his Fox News Sunday interview that aired yesterday, Trump was adamant about not mandating mask wearing, claimed they “cause problems,” and that he wants Americans to have the “freedom” to not curb the spread of the virus.
Monday afternoon, Trump posted this tweet, just 25 hours before he will resume the daily coronavirus briefings:
Many are asking what took so long, noting the racism in his tweet, and some are saying it won’t take long for him to backtrack: