“I am all up for Masks”, said President Donald Trump in an interview with Fox Business Network on Wednesday. He further assured that he has no problem in wearing masks in public and said that people have seen him wearing one when he’s surrounded by a group of people and cannot maintain a 10 feet distance. He further reassured that it doesn’t happen since he’s the president and everyone has to get tested before they meet him.
During his visit to the Ford plant in Detroit in the month of May, the president said that he was wearing a facial covering but took it off before facing the cameras because he “didn’t want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it”. “It was a dark black mask and I thought it looked okay. Looked like the lone ranger”, he added in his interview with Fox Business news.
Over the past few months, even after being reiterated and suggested by the World Health Organization, President Trump has always accentuated that choosing to wear a mask is a personal decision. After not obliging to the suggestion of wearing masks by the US Center for Disease Control, he said that “he doesn’t see himself doing it while meeting the Presidents, Prime Ministers, Kings or Queens”.
Trump’s resistance to wear a mask has been evident by his ‘mask-less’ public appearances. On June 5, the Republican president chose to not wear a mask while visiting a medical swab manufacturing plant in Maine, reports Al Jazeera.
In the past few months, the resistance has not only been showcased by Trump but the general public as well when some Florida’s residents labelled the mask mandate as ‘political dogma’. They claimed that enforcing the wearing of a mask is a threat to their ‘liberty to breathe’ as reported in a video released by The Telegraph.
As per BBC News, Donald Trump’s supporters who will be attending the July 3 independence day celebration at Mount Rushmore, will not be forced to wear any masks.
On June 6, the World Health Organization revised its recommendation and said that masks should be worn in public places where social distancing cannot be followed. They also said that the mask is one of the tools from a range which could regulate the transmission of the Coronavirus.
