April: Trump says he will not wear mask

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1. May: Wearing a mask would send the wrong message

May 7, 2020, 10:35 AM EDT / Updated May 7, 2020, 11:26 AM EDT
By Associated Press

WASHINGTON ... Within minutes of the CDC announcing its updated mask recommendations last month, the president said, “I don’t think that I’m going to be doing it.”

Trump has told advisers that he believes wearing one would “send the wrong message,” according to one administration and two campaign officials not authorized to publicly discuss private conversations ...

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-tells-allies-his-wearing-mask-would-send-wrong-message-n1202001

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2. May: Mocks Reporter For Leaving On His Mask During Press Availability

By Ted Johnson
May 26, 2020 4:19pm

President Donald Trump took issue with a reporter who asked him a question yet declined to remove his mask during a press availability at the White House, accusing him of wanting to be “political correct.”

The reporter, Reuters White House correspondent Jeff Mason, began to ask a question before the president, seeing him in a mask, said, “Can you take it off, because I cannot hear you.”

“I will just speak louder,” Mason said.

“Ok, because you want to be politically correct,” Trump said.

“No sir, I just want to wear the mask,” Mason responded ...

https://deadline.com/2020/05/coronavirus-donald-trump-masks-jeff-mason-1202943810/

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3. May: Takes his war on masks to new lows

Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN
Updated 11:09 AM ET, Wed May 27, 2020

... Trump and his White House are mocking presumptive Democratic 2020 rival Joe Biden for wearing a mask in public as conservative commentators brand the practice as elite liberal fear-mongering ...

https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/26/politics/donald-trump-covid-masks-politics-health/index.html

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4. June: Says some Americans wear coronavirus masks to signal disapproval of him

PUBLISHED THU, JUN 18 20202:48 PM EDT
UPDATED TUE, JUL 14 20201:36 PM EDT
Berkeley Lovelace Jr.

President Donald Trump said some Americans might wear face masks not as a way to prevent the spread of coronavirus but as a way to signal disapproval of him ...

Trump has often been seen without a mask despite recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization that people wear them as a way to slow the spread of the virus. Scientists say the virus can spread through respiratory droplets that pass when an infected person coughs or sneezes. Studies suggest the masks may serve as a helpful barrier ...

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/18/trump-says-some-wear-coronavirus-masks-to-signal-disapproval-of-him.html

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5. July: Just hours after mask tweet

President Trump tweeted a rare photo of himself in a face mask after struggling in the polls, but just hours later he was seen in public without one.
https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/07/21/trump-video-mask-photo-tweet-nr-vpx.cnn

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6. nice sequence of events struggle

this is yet more valuable campaign fodder.

He's now said it's patriotic to wear a mask.

So as it turns out WE'RE the patriotic ones.

And if it's so patriotic, why has he declined to do so for so long?

As easy as it is to tear down trump with his own words and actions, I still fear the underhanded ploys republicans no doubt have in store between now and November to steal the results, no matter how much the country prefers Biden.