Accused of ignoring the strict rules of exclusion and that does not wear a mask on the background of growth of diseases COVID-19 in the United States, Donald trump has radically changed their views.
“A lot of people say that wearing a mask Patriotic, when you can’t observe the distancing. And no one more Patriotic than I, your beloved President,” – wrote the head of the White house on Twitter, providing a message your picture in a protective mask in black. Trump is cleared in the mask with the presidential seal during his visit to national military medical center Walter reed earlier this month. It was the first and only time he was in public in a mask. The President of the United States for a long time showed an ambiguous position on this delicate issue, and appeared in public with a mask for the first time only on 11 July, a few months after the start of the pandemic, which claimed more than 140 thousand lives in the United States.
on Sunday, Donald trump refused to make the wearing of masks compulsory at the national level, stating that this decision may affect the “individual liberty” of Americans, though still three months ago, the Centers for control and prevention of diseases of the U.S. recommended its citizens to wear masks in public.
Such a radical change in the position of head of the White house protective masks caused by extremely disturbing for him by the opinion polls, CNN reported a source familiar with the President. According to the latest reports, he is lagging behind his main rival, a potential candidate in presidents from Democrats Joseph Biden by 15 points. The discontent of Americans, first and foremost, is a very dismissive position of the President in relation to the strict rules for isolation during a pandemic. For many months, the assistants tried to get trump to wear a mask, put that on the front surfaces can be printed with campaign slogans like – “Trump-Pence 2020” or even the American flag. But he resolutely refused it and put on the mask only once.
Donald trump has also announced on Monday that it will resume its regular press conference on the evening of Sunday, starting 21 July, like those he spent almost every day in the spring, when the number of daily deaths COVID-19 in the United States was the highest. According to AFP, the head of the White house is forced to admit that the situation with the incidence in the US is deteriorating again. The number of new daily cases of infection with coronavirus has increased dramatically, especially in the southern States of the country in recent weeks as the number of deaths.
According to the Johns Hopkins University, as of 5 a.m. Tuesday, July 21, in the world recorded 14 655 405 cases and 609 198 deaths. However, only in the last three days the number of infected by the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 in the world increased by almost 600 thousand people. In the US, the figures are 3 825 957 153 and 140 cases, respectively.
We are United in our effort to defeat the Invisible China Virus, and many people say that it is Patriotic to wear a face mask when you can’t socially distance. There is nobody more Patriotic than me, your favorite President! pic.twitter.com/iQOd1whktN