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© 2020 AFPTrump says he finally wore a mask and 'it looked very nice'
By Brendan Smialowski YPSILANTI, Mich©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
108 Comments
oldman_13
What a farce.
bass4funk
This is just so stupid, the media must be bored to death and nothing to report if they have make this front headline news. Who cares if the man wears a mask or not, I could care less. Not everyone can wear a mask, some people have difficulties breathing with it or other issues. In Denmark the majority of people don’t wear masks and think it’s not necessary to wear them as long as you practice serious and safe social distancing and hygiene practices it should be fine and Trump has always been an obsessive OCD freak so I’m sure the man is taking the utmost care to avoid catching this virus.
PTownsend
See comments above. Right-wing Americans and other right-wingers around the globe.
Strangerland
If Putin decided to require people wear masks, I don’t think he’d care whether you support him or not. On anything.
Silvafan
Just like you can't force people to expose themselves to potentially infected individuals. It is no difference than smoking policies. No smoking indoors! You want to smoke then stay home or get away from people who don't want to inhale another person's smoke!
The other analogy is no shirt, no shoes then no service.
The reason is the same for all 3: it is a risk to public health!
Same rules apply to non mask wearers.
bass4funk
But it’s ok for left wing politicians to force people to wear masks when some people can’t? Great of the so called tolerant group.
Serrano
Enjoy -
Trump delivers hopeful remarks at Ford Motor Plant
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJzGehT_F5c
Silvafan
EX: Delaware Manufacturer Refused to all trump to visit their plant because he didn't wear a mask.
President’s Visit to Delaware County Plant Cancelled Due to Health Safety Concerns
https://montco.today/2020/05/trump-visit-to-marcus-hook-plant-cancelled-due-to-health-safety-concerns/
bass4funk
No, you could have other respiratory problems, I know people with extreme allergies that can’t wear masks, you don’t have to be obese in order to have breathing or anxiety problems wearing a mask.
Numan
That makes no logical sense and is off topic. How do you know? Where are the examples!
Serrano
Impossible to believe, why no photo?
"I had one on before. I wore one in this back area but I didn't want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it," he told reporters and photographers covering his visit.
Numan
Then they can find face masks made from alternative materials, make their own, or stay at home. Their allergy doesn't give the them the right to put other people at risk around them.
bass4funk
Don’t deflect, my point is, liberals are pushing so hard that everyone including the President have to wear a mask, I am saying, some people can’t and if they can’t, then the only thing they can do is practice social safe guidelines, but if they can’t because of some respiratory condition, then they just can’t.
lucabrasi
bass4funk
Liberals think they know a lot about healthy people.
That has nothing to do with anything, none of us our kids, I look up to my parents, not the President, he’s just the leader of the nation. When it comes to social behavior, I don’t look to any leader for that.
David Varnes
To modify what Silvafan wrote right above this particular post... if 'No shirt, no shoes, no service' is not only normal but expected, then it can also be made normal for 'No shirt, no shoes, no mask, no service.'
I mean, some people have severe cotton allergies. Or rubber allergies. Or artificial fabrics allergies. Why must we force these people to wear clothes at all to go shopping, right?
Or are you just making an absurd argument to try and have an axe to grind?
Numan
@Bass
I am deflecting by telling you to stay on topic?! That makes no sense once again and illogical.
Again where is the evidence?
I find it so ironic that you and others are willing to put so many lives at risk by not requiring people to wear face masks, and your excuse is wearing a face mask puts someone that you know life at risk.
Wow!
The Avenger
https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2020/05/20/trump-michigan-coronavirus-nessel-mask/5230085002/
He always flips out when a woman tells him to wear protection.
bass4funk
I understand, but that has nothing to do with obstructing your breathing, some people just can’t wear a mask, I know a few that just can’t and this was before the virus hit. Before you clothes, you need to breath, once that stops, nothing else will matter.
Right back at you.
Silvafan
That makes no logical sense and is off topic. How do you know? Where are the examples!
bass4funk
Yes, where is that you have to? If you can’t then what?
I find it shameful and repugnant that you insist that think regardless if you can breath or not you have to wear a mask and that’s ridiculous.
And forcing some people to wear a mask even if they have severe respiratory problems, you want to put their lives at risk.
Wow
Serrano
How does answering another reader's question by posting the relevant sentence from the article get +0 / -4?
Silvafan
@Numan
Piggybacking off of you.
I also find it ironic that @Bass understands the severity of some person who is allergic to facemasks, but who was also supporting the argument that the common flu is more dangerous than COVID-19, and we should send everyone back to work and risk lots of lives.
bass4funk
You can make that same argument about liberals that want the mandate to stay in place and that don’t care about lowering premiums, if people can’t pay the premiums and they can’t afford healthcare, it kind it takes the word out of “affordable.”
Again, that depends on the person, if the president believes he can’t wear or he doesn’t need it and given the fact that he is a obsessive germ phobia freak, then he should be OK.
Silvafan
@Zichi
It comes from learning from the super duper best orator and the most stable genius in the Republican party.
Trump: 'I tested very positively in another sense — so this morning, yeah. I tested positively toward negative, right. So I tested perfectly this morning — meaning I tested negative.'
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-tested-very-positively-another-192747673.html
And yes! That is the real title and direct quote!
bass4funk
I don’t know, where you are getting that from, of course the country needs to go back to work, people need to pay bills, people need to eat both liberal and conservative, atheists, nonbelievers, religious people, everyone needs to go back to work and make money and we cannot continue to write relief checks and the amount gets higher and higher, we don’t have that kind of money anymore. We don’t have revenue coming in and this is completely unsustainable, people should be left with the choice to go back to work and the president and others are right, some people die that as a matter fact and some people are more susceptible of getting this virus and others are not, but you cannot completely turn off the economic engine of a nation. For those people that are more susceptible and in the high-risk category, they need to be exceptionally careful and should stay away from the public as much as possible and for those that are not in the high-risk category, they should be able to be screened and with careful precaution be allowed to go back to work as long as we follow all the social and safety guidelines.
Silvafan
@Bass
100,000 people haven't died from being allergic to wearing face masks. That many have died from a pandemic that trump has mismanaged. Your priorities for a non existent issue and willingness to stay off topic is amazing.
WOW!
ulysses
The fake media is again making fake claims.
Thry claim ‘ people look up to the president for guidance’
No one looks up to the president for anything , in fact we, the right wing, do the exact opposite of what he does.
However we still love our president because he supports our agenda of an old-fashioned America.
bass4funk
Please relax. I never said he had respiratory problems, for the record and once again slowly. I am saying we don’t know the reason and some people do have respiratory problems and cannot wear a mask, that’s just a matter of fact.
Did they interview or to 100,000 people that couldn’t wear masks? How do you know out of all these people who had a mask and who didn’t?
That actually came from China to be more specific.
PTownsend
Both statements above are correct.
Silvafan
@Bass
The current social and safety guidelines are to wear face masks in public!
So your friend and anyone else who can't wear a face mask should simply stay away from everyone else. Then your point about wearing face masks is a non issue.
So why were you trying to deflect again?
Silvafan
@Burning Bush
Some people are wearing full face masks! You can also buy them online. The concern is that if the demand is to great then first responders and essential workers won't have enough!
You are supporting the cause! See how understanding logic can either help or hurt your argument?
plasticmonkey
Yes, we do. Trump said it was because he “didn’t want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it.”
That is a pretty childish reason to endanger other people. The man is only concerned about himself.
bass4funk
The bottom statement is more accurate.
You never know.
https://www.foxnews.com/health/dr-marc-siegel-opens-up-about-his-father-96-and-his-use-of-hydroxychloroquine
bass4funk
Yes, you are right, but some people can’t.
I agree.
No, because we are talking about The President of the United States and as a leader and especially given the position he’s in where he goes, he has a right to decline wearing a mask if he so chooses as long as he follows the safety guidelines, should he wear a mask I think so, but if he doesn’t then he must have a valid reason for it and who are we to say or judge the man if we don’t know the underlying reasons.
Not my style.
bass4funk
Exactly! So getting back to what I was saying, the man doesn’t need to wear one
With all due respect, you don’t know what the reason is, you are just speculating.
I don’t know, the majority of governors give him high marks, so that means according to them he did a very good job and these are liberal governors, Democrats.
plasticmonkey
The reason was stated by Trump, as I also reminded you above.
Blacklabel
he has no reason to wear a mask in front of the media. Already knowing what they will use any pictures to attempt to create yet another untrue narrative.
Strangerland
Sure he does. He's just not a very good leader, so he doesn't see that reason.
bass4funk
But it doesn’t matter and whatever the reason is, he has the right to decide that for himself and no one in the media or the Democrats or the Republicans can make him wear a mask, he evidently has his reasons, so debating this is actually stupid in many ways because he’s a president that he can make that choice for himself.
Blacklabel
the media just needs that one picture to go with the narrative they have already written. He wont give it to them.
Strangerland
A competent leader would have never politicized the issue in the first place.
plasticmonkey
Trump broke Michigan law. Are you OK with that?
Blacklabel
every single thing has been and will be politicized by the left and their media because they didnt expect to lose in 2016. You really claiming that Trump politicized as this? he has no reason to, as he won the job vacancy.
Blacklabel
You said Trump politicized it. now you immediately flip flopping into justifying why your team politicized it. Which is what I said. the left and the media purposely politicize everything.
you just agreed with me that they do it, its intentional for reasons and explained justifications why.
Great, thanks for the explanation and the confirmation that I am correct.
Toasted Heretic
It's my shiny new toy and I'm not going to share it with anyone.
I don't believe him.
Toasted Heretic
Confusing liberals with doctors.
sunfunbun
It isn't even getting or not getting the virus by not wearing a mask, it's being considerate to other people, as you could have the virus and spread it, unknowingly. Whether Trump has the coronavirus or not isn't the issue, he needs to be the prime example for others. Unfortunately, he isn't considerate and is stupid in his ways, showing how big a buffoon American's can be.
And if 'freedom of choice' is the issue, it doesn't mean selfish choice is the priority. Don't be like that idiot at Costco, make the right choice. Everyone can, if they act accordingly like an adult should, think and do their bit to help the fight against the virus.
sunfunbun
Ya'll more than just hypocritical when you go the narrative route as you don't believe in truth, don't care for science, don't read to be fact informed, believe lies and consequently don't critical think, leading to Fox to be known for swimming in its own soup of narrative for years and having the demagoguery of Trump. Remember, Trump has lied 18,000 times in office, and you don't care he did.
Simply, conservatives drown in their own narrative so much, using the word narrative by them is meaningless because it lacks credibility.
bass4funk
A lot of doctors are liberals.
Toasted Heretic
Which, I guess, is why the far right trust a man with no medical expertise, whatsoever, over said doctors.
Sounds legit.
sunfunbun
Uh, I don't know about that, but so what?
A lot of doctors are conservatives. WTF does that mean? Nothing. Why do you even bother?
cleo
I'm sure he did look good in it.
The more of his face he covers, the better he looks.
Invalid CSRF
bass4funk
Yes, it does.
https://www.foxnews.com/health/dr-marc-siegel-opens-up-about-his-father-96-and-his-use-of-hydroxychloroquine
bass4funk
Yeah, that’s one doctors opinion.
stormcrow
How many people could have been saved had Trump demonstrated Basic Leadership Skills 101 by wearing a mask?
Thousands? Tens of thousands?
Also, how much of a negative effect has Trump's poor leadership had on the economy? By not taking proper action sooner, Trump hurt the economy.
Universities should offer a new class based on the Trump administration: Failure in Leadership 101
Hopefully Trump'll lose this November and the cleaning up can begin.
Busby
More evidence that what Mattis said is so true - he "has the understanding of a fifth or sixth grader"...
Acts like one too...
The same Dr Siegel on Fox News that said; "We don't have a vaccine for it, but there's no reason to believe that it's actually more problematic or deadly than influenza."
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/12/media/fox-news-coronavirus/index.html
Sure, he's real "legit"...
Blacklabel
"There's no reason to be walking around with a mask," infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci told 60 Minutes.
While masks may block some droplets, Fauci said, they do not provide the level of protection people think they do. Wearing a mask may also have unintended consequences: People who wear masks tend to touch their face more often to adjust them, which can spread germs from their hands.
Sneezy
Wearing motorcycle helmets at all times would absolutely make everyone safer. Not just from germs, but from head injuries.
Sadly, motorcycle helmets are vastly more expensive when compared to masks, and make it more difficult for people to move in small spaces. For both the costs and the practicalities, it isn't feasible to demand that everyone wear them.
If you personally insist that everyone you come across wear them, then that's your personal choice. The solution is: you should make arrangements for someone you know who has a helmet to do your grocery shopping for you and deliver it to you while they wear that helmet.
And you should stay inside.
Sneezy
Remember when you said that people shouldn't listen to Trump, but instead Fauci, a man you said you'd always loved and admired after following his career for decades, and that we could trust his judgement?
I do, because it was like three weeks ago.
starpunk
If I was the plant foreman I'd tell Diaper Don not to come and stick it where the sun don't shine. And he can claim about wearing a mask all he wants when some other object over his motormouth would look better!
Sneezy
Oh! You didn't link to the article this time! Are you gunshy after I pointed out the last time you linked to it that it was outdated, and that the article itself said "the CDC now recommends that everyone wear a mask"?
Blacklabel
Why would I care what they say now? We all know now that he was wrong. very wrong.
I only care what he said when it could have prevented people from getting the virus and when he supposedly knew more than everyone else. When it mattered in March, he said masks were not needed.
Blacklabel
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/preventing-coronavirus-facemask-60-minutes-2020-03-08/
Sneezy
Ah, so he was wrong to say that masks were unnecessary. Okay! So mask wearing is necessary, yes?
bass4funk
Siegel said his father, who lives in Florida, recently complained about weakness, shortness of breath and feared that he was going to die. Siegel said that his father’s cardiologist prescribed hydroxychloroquine and antibiotics and the combination proved effective. "He got up the next day and was fine,” Siegel said. While scientists are suggesting hydroxychloroquine could be an effective treatment, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, cautioned against jumping to any conclusions without thorough research.
In other words there’s a good chance that we can do more good than harm.
Sounds legit to me.
bass4funk
I never said that. I respect the doctor, but I do agree with Rand Paul and that he is not a guard and he is just a medical advisor he is not a policymaker and as a doctor and as a man of research he is bound to make mistakes which he has. I trust his judgment sometimes, and I trust my own.
So do I and?
Sneezy
I'm sure it does. As legit as a 35-year journalist with 25 years of experience that spanned a whole decade.
Sneezy
You did. You even admit laer in your post you remember saying it.
Rand Paul, as an eye doctor, is not qualified to comment on pandemics.
No-one said he was policy maker.
You are not a medical professional and your "judgement" has no basis.
Blacklabel
If it wasnt necessary in March as Fauci said, I am not so sure it is critical in May.
Did what Fauci said in March as reasons why it was unnecessary become untrue in the 2 months since?
Or are those reasons still true but just dont match the current narrative? I never really heard Fauci admit he was wrong in March and explain why.
Blacklabel
Fauci had no such caution about jumping to conclusions without thorough research for the other drug.
"Dr. Anthony Fauci says Gilead’s remdesivir will set a new ‘standard of care’ for coronavirus treatment"
Sneezy
Well, clear this up for me.
You're saying that Fauci saying that masks were unnecessary in March was wrong. You say we needed them in March, presumably because they prevent the spread of disease.
I agree with this. Masks were necessary in March, and the advice he gave wasn't right. That's why the CDC corrected this advice in April.
NOW you're saying that masks are not necessary today... because they don't stop the spread of disease?
You're so tied up in trying to 'own' someone who doesn't even know you exist, and defending a president who wouldn't spit on you if you were on fire, that you've arrived at a conclusion that masks are mystical: effective when convenient for your narrative and inconvenient when not.
Peter14
So funny. He considers himself a world leader when in fact he is a world loser. He leads nothing.
bass4funk
No, not like that.
he’s an ophthalmologist, which means he does surgery, so he would have some knowledge, of course because he does have to study medicine to become an eye surgeon
Thank you, I rest my case.
I’m not a medical professional, but I don’t need to be. I do what I want and I go where I want and no one will stop me from making my own personal decisions that are good for me or my family.
bass4funk
Fauci is all over the place.
PTownsend
Those who question the claims of another poster get banned, so I won't write anything.
Sneezy
Yes, like that. Don’t make me link to your posts.
None of this makes him qualified to comment on pandemics.
You do to make informed judgements on Coronavirus safety procedures if you refuse to listen to the professionals.
When you finally do make a good decision, let us know.
Toasted Heretic
But you'll happily put others at risk, yes?
LOL. Has he recommended bleach yet?
bass4funk
Please.
Yes, he can, that’s like a boxer being not qualified to having a robust debate with martial artists or MMA fighters, come on now...
Because I can. In my home, I am head of the house and if I want to go out, I do, I have and will continue to do so.
Blacklabel
yet no one blames Fauci or the CDC with the same amount of vitrol they blame Trump for....whatever it is they are blaming Trump for.
This guy said for over one month that a mask was not necessary. is he not responsible for the people who followed his "expert advice"?
he has never fully explained why he decided masks are necessary now when they werent before. Was he just wrong, did "the science" change or did he find out he was on the wrong side of the new narrative?
Toasted Heretic
What does this mean?
You need to be mindful of facts, though. You've previously claimed the pandemic has killed "millions".
Toasted Heretic
With or without a mask and a care for your fellow citizens?
Busby
I definitely remember him saying that - the exact quote was; "Everyone should calm down and listen to Dr Fauci"....
He praised him in numerous posts...
But that was then - before the flip-flop...
bass4funk
Siri is a joke.
I always wear a mask in public, but I’m not the President, big difference.
bass4funk
Yes, but that doesn’t mean, he’s the anointed one....
I don’t praise, I respect the guy....to a point, he’s been around since I was in high school so....
None whatsoever.
Strangerland
CDC - scientists, giving scientific opinion.
Trump - rambling old man, blaming it as a hoax on the democrats, pushing unproven drugs, and dumping all responsibility on the states instead of taking leadership.
Yeah, there's a really, really, REALLY good reason why we don'T blame Fauci or the CDC like we blame Trump. Because you'd have to be a moron to think he's not a moron.
Toasted Heretic
You don't think he should lead by example? Why is he frightened of wearing a mask, do you think?
Strangerland
Or even just lead?
plasticmonkey
Yes, I remember that clearly as well. But fortunately for bass4funk, JT removes articles and comments pretty quickly. JT also removes comments that hold to account bass4funk's outlandish claims.
@bass
I still haven't heard what you think about Trump breaking Michigan law by not wearing a mask in public. Is that OK? Is your answer going to include some irrelevant reference to Obama, Holder, or liberals?
Blacklabel
whereas I would blame someone claiming to be an "expert" more than I would someone who is not.
But I guess whatever narrative leads to Trump being blamed for Cuomo's decision to put COVID patients in nursing homes with healthy people. Plus any other narrative that absolves Fauci and the CDC of blame for their previous failures, yet still forces us to do what they say now.
Busby
Trump cutting down a tree with a chain saw; "I wore goggles and gloves but removed them because I didn't want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it"....
Trump sitting on the WH front porch during a tornado; "I went to the basement but came back up because I didn't want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it"....
Trump sitting in a capsule getting his first launch into space; "I was wearing a space suit but took it off because I didn't want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it"....
Earth to Trump - we get no pleasure seeing you - period.
Strangerland
This is where you differ from your Dear Leader, who blamed Obama when two Americans died of Ebola (yes 2, not 200 or 2000), and said he should resign.
Obama, who actually lead. Unlike this incompetent moron who is quick to criticize, and quick to find anyone else to take responsibility.
Basically the utter dredge of society. The least useful of human beings.