Posted on 07/21/2020 5:01:47 PM PDT by VictoryGal
In his first official press briefing on the coronavirus pandemic since April, President Trump on Tuesday admitted that the public health crisis is likely to worsen as cases surge across the country and asked all Americans to wear masks in public.
While Trump hailed his administration’s response to the pandemic and the work toward developing a vaccine, he bluntly disclosed what many Americans already know: that the crisis is likely to spread more before it can be contained.
“It will get worse before it gets better,” Trump said of the pandemic that has infected close to 4 million Americans. “That’s something I don’t like saying but it is.”
Trump’s comments come after weeks where he either downplayed the virus’ continued spread or focused on other issues – from unrest over racial injustice in American cities to the removal of Confederate statues – despite cases of COVID-19 surging, particularly, in parts of the south and southwest.
Noting the concerns among many of his supporters that facial coverings impinge on their personal freedoms, Trump pleaded with Americans to wear masks out in public to help prevent the spread of the coronavirus.
“We’re asking everybody when you’re not able to socially distance to wear a mask,” Trump said.
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It was great to hear POTUS talk about vaccines. I know some here are anti-vaccine but I think having one for the chinavirus is key to beating it. I'd love to see it in record time like he is saying.
I feel like he’s been duped.
DJT has drunk the kool aid.
Masks are less than useless.
Reverse psychology?
He’s hoping the Left starts to be against masks if he is for them?
I didn’t hear any ‘pleading.’
That depends on our location on the log normal epidemic curve. We could be near the peak in some of the hot spots.
That depends on our location on the log normal epidemic curve. We could be near the peak in some of the hot spots.
OK I will wear the dam mask.
I want my life back.
I did not think he was pleading.
Friggin fake news.
Exactly. If he is FOR masks, the media and the left will be AGAINST masks......
He’s just getting the Dems to say Don’t Wear Masks ,LOL
I think he’s been duped too. All of a sudden, it’s MASKS everywhere - Melania has one, Trump LIKES them, every protester in the news has one on, every journalist at the WH. It’s like Trump is Gullivered by a thousand tiny ropes and can’t get free. I don’t like it.
He wasn’t wearing his mask. He clearly said if you feel like wearing it or in close contact wear it. If in an elevator wear it.
Oh for goodness sakes
He’s asking. Nothing wrong with that. He’s not telling us to or making it a law.
I am concerned about the vaccine being rushed without being tested enough. I thought it took quite a while before a vaccine came to market safely.
Gee, I hope that is right, 4D chess again.
But I doubt it.
Like A.C. said above, I fear he has been duped. Or to put a brighter face on it, maybe he says this, as a sop to the leftists, thinking it a small thing to try to get the economy running again
POTUS knows mask theater won’t end before November 4th. Better to join the parade than get run over by it.
You posted: “I feel like he’s been duped.”
I agree.
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