Trump spotted wearing a coronavirus mask during post-golf visit to hospital: reports

[turbinetree]

Source: Raw Story

Published 23 mins ago on July 11, 2020
By Bob Brigham



President Donald Trump has resisted advice to wear a mask during the COVID-19 pandemic, but was spotted wearing a mask during a visit to Walter Reed Hospital on Saturday.

Trump made the trip after spending Saturday at Trump National Golf Club.

“Visiting military hospital, Trump wears a mask in public for first time during pandemic,” the Associated Press reports.

Trump has reportedly feared his base turning on him over the question of mask wearing.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/2020/07/trump-spotted-wearing-a-coronavirus-mask-during-post-golf-visit-to-hospital-reports/

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The "brass told him that if he didn't wear one they would put in the corner without getting his milk and cookies................he's still a fucking traitor ................what about the fucking Russian bounties how many of the brass where thinking of that......................

[groundloop]

1. If he'd have set an example by wearing a mask in February we wouldn't be in this mess

What a fucking idiot, his imagined need to keep his 'macho' image has cost us untold thousands of lives and trillions of dollars.

ALL he needed to do was admit that this pandemic is serious and that people should practice social distancing and wear a mask in public. THAT'S IT. That tiny little bit of leadership back in February would have prevented so much of this mess.

[soothsayer]

3. This

[Kid Berwyn]

7. He also woulda started ramping up...

...if only he knew how important it would be today, the testing, the masks, the etc. Except, he hasn’t and it isn’t and they aren’t.

But the lives. Many if not most all of 130,000 Americans would still be alive had Donald Trump acted like a President.

[soothsayer]

2. It's not really the first time

We’ve seen that other brief appearance of the mask

[JudyM]

4. Just as ugly a mug even when half-covered.

Thought if his mouth was covered it’d be better.

And of course his mask has to have the presidential seal because, you know, he’s the king.

[hamsterjill]

34. I noticed that.

Vain to the core. He sickens me - just the sight of him sickens me.

[duforsure]

35. He looks like a bank robber

Looking for the right teller to hand his note to.

[cstanleytech]

5. Why is he wearing a mask for a hoax virus?

[groundloop]

6. We liberals made him do it.

Obama.

Hillary's emails.

Hunter Biden.

[Javaman]

17. He has bent to our will!

Will the extreme right wing racists think he’s a tool now?

Probably not, they will explain it away as some secret message that only the rightest of the right wing racists can decipher.

[paleotn]

12. You're thinking. Stop it....

You can't understand Trumpmania logically. You just have to feel it....or...something like that.

I don't know how the faithful will deal with this revelation, but they have been known to handle half a dozen contradictory beliefs in their heads at one time without any noticeable damage. Cognitive dissonance is their super power.

[dhill926]

8. son of a bitch shouldn't even be allowed in there...

[Mr.Bill]

9. Looks like maybe

he didn't paint himself orange today. Can't have that crap getting all over the inside of the mask.

[patphil]

10. This is the first time he, and his posse, are all wearing masks.

Of course, he says he always believed in masks, just not at certain times and certain places...like everywhere before this photo.

[Efilroft Sul]

11. He's wearing a mask because he thinks nobody can tell he's lying when his lips are moving.

[denem]

13. Not enough.

He needs a whole of face mask.

[alittlelark]

14. Hypocrite!! He says the virus is a liberal Hoax - Cowardly mask usage.

He should STAND BY HIS PRINCIPLES !!!

[Marie Marie]

15. " Trump has reportedly feared his base turning on him over the question of mask wearing."

Of course, it's all about his re-election.

[PSPS]

16. And looking angrily at the camera. He had them put the presidential seal on it too.

[Blue_playwright]

32. It's that weird squinty thing he does...

... I’m not sure what he thinks he looks like, but I hate to tell him he just looks stupid and like he needs to put his damn glasses on.

[mpcamb]

18. Sniveling conniving little twirp being guided by election polls...

[stillcool]

19. he was visiting wounded troops

does he do that often? ever?

[Dem2theMax]

22. He needed a photo op.

Couldn't have his rally so he decided to go infect the troops. Haven't they been through enough?

[warmfeet]

20. May he suffer greatly,

and for a very long time. Fuck tRump. Fuck everyone that ever supported this demented asswhipe.

[BlueStater]

21. Fucking asshole.

If he had worn masks from the very beginning, many of his idiot followers would have worn them too.

Instead, he cost an untold number of lives and created massive headaches for innocent retail employees with his unwillingness to do the right thing.

Shitbag.

[NoRoadUntravelled]

23. I can think of three reasons for him to wear a mask to visit troops

1. Not respecting our troops enough to wear a mask would make him look bad and hurt November chances.

2. If any of our troops became ill after his visit it will make him look bad and hurt November chances.

3. A recent study indicates correlation between non-compliance with social distancing/mask wearing and lowered cognitive abilities. Not wearing a mask makes him look bad.

Link to study:
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/07/09/2008868117?fbclid=IwAR0UMkiZCM1Q8CohIk0TX00VSGENHPRK8qK4kAmhzD9HtmftND3KUQcSZxo

[regnaD kciN]

27. But he's always said wearing a mask would make him look "weak"...

...and it probably does, but only because he's insisted for so long that he didn't need one.

[bucolic_frolic]

24. Double the bleach injections!

The mask could be contaminated!

[Yeehah]

25. Is that the presidential seal on his fucking mask?

What a lame loser!

[regnaD kciN]

26. Hopefully, the MAGAts will be disillusioned...

...because Their Hero wearing one can mean only one of two things:

1) he turned out to be a scared little snowflake just like the rest of them, or
2) the pandemic really is serious, and not just the "COVID cold" so many of them joke about.

In either case, they might start wondering if they have to worry, and whether he was putting them at risk all along.

[oldsoftie]

31. They'll excuse it because he was at a hospital.

[Solly Mack]

28. So? Too little, too late. Pure PR. His "optics" - pretending

to give a fuck about the troops.

[hay rick]

29. Doing the right thing for the wrong reason.

He's wearing the mask because he has bad polling numbers. The mask makes him look like the Lone Pussy Grabber.

[LudwigPastorius]

30. Hey, it only took 4 months, 3 million+ cases, and 137,000 dead before he started doing...

the right thing.

At this rate of improvement, he'll have a normal human conscience by...

Nah, who am I kidding?

[Lasher]

33. He's turned mask wearing into a divisive political issue.

His followers won't wear masks and that's Trump's personal fault. He'll get no credit from me for finally putting one on.

[Journeyman]

36. I hope this is the beginning of a new policy for his Administration . . .

If his wearing a mask, even in limited but very public instances, helps to get MAGAts into masks then we will all benefit.

And should the MAGAts turn against him over masks, as he evidently fears, then we'll all benefit from that as well.

I prefer we benefit medically, but I'll take a political benefit if that's what we get.

[moondust]

37. Walter Reed?

Did he show the hospitalized troops his rubles?

[truthisfreedom]

38. Corrected headline "America's Leader Joe Biden Shames presidunce into Wearing PPE"

[Maxheader]

39. If enough of the media laughs at stumpy..

Maybe the mask would come off...just saying...

[llmart]

40. What's the most dangerous about all this...

is that the news media has now made a headline story out of a freakin stoopid jerk finally putting a mask on. It's like a mother who has to make over the first time her toddler makes a poopie in the toilet. "Yeah, look what you just did! Aren't you just a big boy now?"

F*** him and the news media making such a big deal over it. Besides, he was made to wear one here in Michigan, albeit only for a brief time, by our strong, female Governor Whitmer.

[karin_sj]

41. He's probably doing it to protect himself

Jerk

[Hip2bSquare]

42. Control that news cycle

That is one thing the orange goo is good at and that's knowing the news cycles. What better way to change the narrative from the "Hey, I, the self proclaimed 'law and order' president just freed a convicted felon...oh and please ignore the fact that I'm ok with putin killing American troops".

He'll get his 15 minutes of oohs and ahs for his mask, but the mask can't cover that he is a completely loathsome human being.

[jmowreader]

43. We'll know if he's changed the next time we see him

There's a decent chance the Walter Reed commander informed the White House, "I don't give a fuck who he thinks he is, if he doesn't have a mask on when he arrives, he isn't getting in."

[not_the_one]

44. "spotted wearing a mask". Are they serious? BULLSHIT It was nothing more than a photo opp.

Once again the spin by the media is that this was an effort on his behalf of showing concern.

He doesn't give a shit about ANYTHING except what is good for his re-election.



edit to add...

Do you notice how he is looking STRAIGHT AT THE CAMERA? He's thinking, "DAMN! This will look good in a campaign ad".