July 11
Ballbag wore a mask when attending Walter Reed hospital.
In early April when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued voluntary guidance to wear masks Trump said, “This is voluntary. I don’t think I’m going to be doing it. I don’t know, somehow, sitting in the Oval Office behind that beautiful Resolute Desk – the great Resolute Desk – I think wearing a face mask as I greet presidents, prime ministers, dictators, kings, queens, I don’t know. Somehow, I see it for myself. ”
In May when Ballbag couldn’t hear a journalist’s questions he said she was wearing a mask to be “politically correct.”
When he was at the Ford plant to May he wore a mask but not where there were press. Already he was saying that he “didn’t want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it.”
In early July he noted of Joe Biden of wearing a mask, “got the largest mask I think I have ever seen. It covers up a big proportion of his face.”
There is an argument to be made that with regularly daily testing of White House Staff the President didn’t need to wear a mask and it projected strength and confidence to the American people.
White House Staff did test positive however and Trump’s actions politicised the wearing of masks.
With a few strong comments Trump could have ended but he didn’t.
Then the COVID numbers went up him in the heartland and Republican politicians started wearing masks.
So with poll numbers down and it being identified as a simple and necessary move – he did it.
-Lloyd Marken
At his age, he is, of course, flirting with disaster!
Ballbag knows he’s safe. Unless they’re protectors outside the White House then he scurried away to “check out” the bunker.
History will judge the politicisation of the virus, I’m imagine, as a terrible mistake….
It is, in a crisis people expect you to make mistakes but they expect you to prioritise whatever will save lives. If you don’t, you can go to help as far as I’m concerned.
He is so sick in the head it is criminal something isn’t being done about it. His best protection as prez is his VP, Pence. He would make things worse only in a sneaky kind of way.
I’ll take him, at least Pence doesn’t say stupid shit to journalists asking simple questions. But it’s not up to me.
He won’t give them a straight answer either, For being such a ‘Good Christian’ he doesn’t respect the oath he swore to on his bible.
The thing that always strikes me is that despite everything he has said and done, he actually has a 50/50 chance of reelection in November.
Best ishes, Pete.
Amazing eh?