I believe…you believe this…and that’s what is truly sad.
Let’s see it. What has Trump said over and over about masks? He’s been consistent.
You don’t believe that there are millions of Trump supporters who only believe him, and think everything else is fake news? You don’t believe that it is only Trump supporters who have made mask wearing a partisan issue? You don’t believe it is only Trump supporters who have claimed the virus is a hoax? You don’t believe it is only Trump supporters who doubt that 150,000+ Americans have died from COVID, or that we are on pace to have over 300,000 dead by the end of the year? You don’t believe Trump’s own administration has attacked Fauci and Birx and Redfield and Giruir, every single time they say something that is not in line with Trump’s narrative? You seriously think these things have not occurred, and it is just a fever dream on my part?
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Explain California.
How many people do you estimate would have died if Trump were not President?
4.5 million people voted for Trump in California in 2016. California isn’t comprised entirely of people who hate Trump.
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I believe everyone should do their own research and make up their minds accordingly. I believe most, if not all of what you posted above is grossly misrepresented.
No doubt. Where’s Trump?
Hiding in a bunker?
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And Clinton won by that same number. And they’ve had 4 years to reassess their decision.
San Diego County was 57% Clinton.
No, they’re not all people that hate Trump. Neither are all the people in the major cities. So why are we blaming Trump? Are we claiming Trump lovers are infecting Trump haters?
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No. If he was in Biden’s basement, we would have seen him hovering over him, walking into the frame behind him, and occasionally blurting out “wrong” into the microphone during his interviews.
I have no doubt about that. If Clinton had advised the country to wear a mask, there are people out there who would do the opposite because of their hatred of her. However, Trump probably could have reached those people in a way Clinton never would have.
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So two Presidents?
I’ve long thought that the protests were going to be a bad idea. I can’t blame them for being upset about police murdering people for petty crimes.
Can you blame them for spreading COVID by being choosing that manner to demonstrate their upset?
Consistently inconsistent.
Trump’s mockery of wearing masks divides Republicans
A growing chorus of Republicans are pushing back against President Trump’s suggestion that wearing cloth masks to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus is a sign of personal weakness or political correctness.
They include governors seeking to prevent a rebound in coronavirus cases and federal lawmakers who face tough reelection fights this fall, as national polling shows lopsided support for wearing masks in public.
The comments come as Trump continues to treat face masks as something to mock, refusing to wear one in public and joining his staff and family in ridiculing his Democratic rival Joe Biden for doing otherwise. White House staff members are required to wear masks in the building, though Trump is exempted from that rule.
The president retweeted a picture of a masked Biden taken Monday during a war memorial visit. The caption: “This might help explain why Trump doesn’t like to wear a mask in public.”
Donald Trump Jr., the president’s son and campaign surrogate, who traffics in zingers meant to anger liberals, posted a similar image on Instagram, calling the face mask “a muzzle so Joe can’t sniff anyone.” Dan Scavino Jr., the deputy chief of staff at the White House, shared doctored footage on Twitter on Monday that makes it appear as if Biden wore a face mask while eating.
A poll this month by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 89 percent of Democrats and 72 percent of independents report wearing a mask every time or most of the time when they leave home, compared with 58 percent of Republicans.
Three recent public polls have found that between 64 and 72 percent of the public says Trump should wear a mask. Between 38 and 48 percent of Republicans say Trump should do so.
Trump has said previously that he supports the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommendations that face masks be worn by everyone “in public settings where other social distancing measures are difficult to maintain.” But he has also said, “I don’t think I am going to be doing it.”
On a visit last week to a Ford plant in Michigan, he wore a mask during a private tour but removed it to speak to the news media, saying he had been tested for the virus that morning, so he did not pose a danger, and he “didn’t want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it.”
Male Republicans, a key part of Trump’s base, were more skeptical of mask wearing than other groups in the recent Kaiser poll.
How about this one?
On his way to the hospital, Trump stopped to tell reporters that he was not endorsing the sort of routine mask-wearing mayors and governors have been begging Americans to embrace to curb the spread of Covid-19, as the death toll neared 135,000.
Masks, the president said as he left the White House, “have a time and a place.” Specifically, Trump explained, “when you’re in a hospital,” as he would be, “talking to a lot of soldiers and people that in some cases just got off the operating tables.”
Cool. Wear a mask at the hospital when you’re talking to people that just got off the operating table. That’s real leadership and a consistent message on mask wearing, right? This was just 3 weeks ago.
How about here, where he says that masks could be counterproductive? Consistent messaging? Nope.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-talks-juneteenth-john-bolton-economy-in-wsj-interview-11592493771
Paywall…
Here is the quote though…
But his most stunning comments about masks, arguably, came last week. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal’s Michael C. Bender, Trump went so far as to suggest that masks could be counterproductive .
“Masks are a double-edged sword,” he said. “People touch them. And they grab them and I see it all the time. They come in, they take the mask. Now they’re holding it now in their fingers. And they drop it on the desk and then they touch their eye and they touch their nose. No, I think a mask is a — it’s a double-edged sword.”
Here are some more quotes from Trump out of the above article. So strikingly consistent, right? 
Here’s a rundown of what he has said since early April, with key parts in bold :
- “Just about everybody has a face mask on. They’ve learned about face masks — the good and the bad, by the way . It’s not a one-sided thing, believe it or not.”
- On the example he could set by wearing a mask: “Well, I think it sets an example. I think it sets an example both ways .”
- Of whether he’d recommend masks at his rallies: “ I recommend people do what they want . I’m okay with that. If people want to wear masks, I think that’s great. I won’t be. Not as a protest but I don’t feel that I’m in danger.”
- “You know, there was a time when people thought it was worse wearing a mask. I let people make up their own decision .”
- “The job the governor of Florida has done, it’s incredible, the numbers they’re doing. You’ve got to open it up, and you do social distancing and you wear masks if you want and you do things — you can do a lot of things.”
- On whether he would wear a mask in Michigan: “A lot of people have asked me that question. I want to get our country back to normal. I want to normalize .”
- “I wore one in this back area, but I didn’t want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it .”
- “Should I speak in a mask? You’re going to have to tell me if that’s politically correct . I don’t know. If it is, I’ll speak in a mask.”
- “In light of these studies, the CDC is advising the use of nonmedical cloth face covering as an additional voluntary public health measure. So it’s voluntary; you don’t have to do it . They suggested for a period of time. But this is voluntary . I don’t think I’m going to be doing it .”
- “So with the masks, it’s going to be, really, a voluntary thing. You can do it. You don’t have to do it. I’m choosing not to do it, but some people may want to do it, and that’s okay. It may be good. Probably will. They’re making a recommendation. It’s only a recommendation. It’s voluntary.”
- “It’s very simple to do. I won’t be doing it personally. It’s a recommendation . Okay?”
Are you ready to concede that he has been anything OTHER than consistent in promoting a unifying mask wearing position?
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Yes, remarkably consistent. The touching the face came from Fauci. Practically the same wording. In fact all of it did.
4,483,810 Trump voting Republicans
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