Trump was asked after his tour of a Ford plant yesterday. From
the transcript:
Well, 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, but no, where I had it in the back area, I did put a mask on....
Why would you not be wearing it here, sir?
Not necessary here. Everybody’s been tested and I’ve been tested. In fact, I was tested this morning, so it’s not necessary.
But the... executives are wearing them.
Well, that’s their choice. I was given a choice and I had one on in an area where they preferred it. So I put it on and it was very nice. It looked very nice, but they said they’re not necessary here....
What about the example that it would set for other Americans to see you wearing a mask?
Well, I think it sets an example both ways. And as they say, I did have it on. Thank you.... I just liked your question so much. You know what, it was such a nice question.... By the way, here is my mask right here... and I liked it very much. I actually, honestly, I think I look better in the mask. I really did. I look better in the mask... but I’m making a speech so I won’t have it now, but I did have it on right here. And I think some of you might’ve gotten a shot. Thank you very much.
Got that? He'll
give them self-deprecation — "I look better in the mask" — he's not going to let them take the means of Trump-deprecation into their own hands. That's the "pleasure" he knows they want. The most pleasurable thing for the press would be to catch Donald Trump in something like John Kerry's worst photo op:
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Of course, the headline in the paper this morning was Maskless Trump.... as if that is a bad thing. The Press really does their best to pull down the Presidency.
The modern day press is a joke. Who gives a shit whether the President wears a mask?
Or Dukakis in a tank.
They think they are so clever, but he is wise to them.
Do you think they'll open up the lakefront in Madison if everyone just wears a mask this Memorial Day Weekend or are the fences already erected?
I would imagine Madison is pro-mask. It's pro-group think. So...no big change really.
He could dress as a fighter pilot and keep his image.
Yup. Kerry in the space suit, Dukakis on the tank. Not gonna go there.
I've thought from the beginning he would not give the press the satisfaction of photographing him in a mask. And I think he's absolutely right.
The press seems to think this is some sort of vital national concern, but outside of the bubble (aka Trump-derrangement land) nobody really cares. And of course many of them are hypocrites when it comes to the whole mask wearing thing while the cameras aren't rolling.
It's all so tedious.
I've seen the masked Trump photo. The White House totally leaked that photo. These guys are three steps ahead of the media on this stuff. It's remarkable.
Yesterday, there was a video flying around of a young African-American male nurse punching young nursing home residents in MI. It went viral last night. James Woods brought it a lot of attention and even Trump tweeted about it. Detroit Police were forced to make an arrest. Seems it was being ignored.
And then… last night… The Michigan Attorney General is on CNN freaking out over Trump not wearing a mask at the Ford Plant. She doesn’t want him to return to the State. Unfortunately we have the same executive intellect running Wisconsin. Silence from Governor Ratched.
I can understand why. After ordering nursing homes to take COVID patients, neither of them want to use the words nursing and home in the same sentence. Masks wouldn’t save the poor residents.
For about three days, CNN talked non-stop about President Trump taking hydroxychloroquine.
It's time to move on. Now CNN is talking non-stop about Trump not wearing a mask. I expect this new talk will continue non-stop through the weekend.
"The most pleasurable thing for the press would be to catch Donald Trump in something like John Kerry's worst photo op"
Biden rips Trump for not wearing mask: 'I can't walk outside my house' without one
Dylan Stableford Senior Writer, Yahoo News, May 19, 2020
Joe Biden says he wears a face mask around Secret Service
By Associated Press, May 5, 2020
Yet show me one photo of Free-Pass Joe Biden with the mask and gloves he touts wearing around the Secret Service (or a bathing suit for that matter).
The press clowns can't start losing their jobs soon enough.
The news media couldn’t sink any lower. They are a boil on the world’s ass.
It's just chicken hawk leadership at its finest. The deplorables lap it up. no one needs to take polls anymore you just need to see how many people are wearing masks to determine the relative popularity of the president in any given Town or county.
"I’m going to beat Joe Biden”
---Joe Biden, 2/22/20
https://t.co/feUIVH0uhh
"Do you think they'll open up the lakefront in Madison if everyone just wears a mask this Memorial Day Weekend or are the fences already erected?"
The lakefront is completely open.
There just aren't any chairs and tables out at the Memorial Terrace (last time I looked). There's no food service there.
Plenty of places to walk and run and picnic with your own stuff. Plenty of benches that are permanently attached and ready to be sat in.
Not that many people out and about though. You don't need a mask. I see very few people (and almost none of them are wearing masks).
He should wear one every day just for a moment, and on the front it should say "CNN is Fake News". Each day pick a different target. "Stop Badfinger Biden"
"Mr. President, there was a lot of interest about whether you would end up wearing a mask today. Could you just take us through your thought process of why you decided not to wear a mask?"
So you are a reporter following the President and you FINALLY get a chance to ask him a question that will likely be seen by MILLIONS of people! The most powerful man in the entire world and you get to ask him ANYTHING you want! You can ask about the economy, about the latest information on the virus, on international relations, Obamagate (right, who am I kidding), China, ANYTHING! Nope, this is what you choose to ask. What an idiot. This person should NEVER get to ask another question.
It is a good thing for the press that journolists aren't forced to take IQ tests. I don't think any of them would score three digits, and some of them would have an 8 as the first digit.
Wince said...
Yet show me one photo of Free-Pass Joe Biden with the mask and gloves he touts wearing around the Secret Service (or a bathing suit for that matter).
5/22/20, 9:15 AM
Yep, Biden can't be bothered to wear a bathing suit around his female SS detail, you know DAMN well he an't wearing any mask!
Not a fan of John Kerry. But never understood any issues or mocking of that photo. He's in a clean-room area. He needs to wear the stuff.
Ann, thank you for reminding me of the John Kerry photo. What a dolt he is!
If you're getting tested every day like Trump is, there's really no reason to mask up.
I'm starting to wonder why we even want to save human lives - terrible creatures. At least half of them never want to be happy, or to let anyone else be. Basically, flightless mosquitoes.
you just need to see how many people are wearing masks to determine the relative popularity of the president in any given Town or county.
Probably true, Howard. Count the pussies.
You think that photo op is worse than this classic?
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2014/08/05/article-2717030-2047F2C300000578-296_636x382.jpgs
He brought a new level of gravitas to the office of Secretary of State.
There is this refreshing thing about Trump where he avoids doing that pandering shit where you try to drive a tank or join some group of people doing something you would never choose to do, if you weren't trying to fool them into thinking you are someone you are not. He doesn't slap on some mom jeans and go bicycle riding. He doesn't do the fake accent or talking style depending on who he's talking to. He's always, just exactly who he is. He's by far the most transparent public figure I know of, and he ain't no waays tiarrrd.
The reporter who asked the questions was a judgmental asshole. An asshole who asked questions about inconsequential asshole things that matter only to fellow assholes.
The Kerry pic is hilarious because he looks like a baby being born.
Another penetrating question from the unipartyleftmediaswine. My neighbor, a Trump hater, gets her news from NYT and WaPo because “good journalism.” She won’t read/hear anything else.
JohnAnnArbor said...
Not a fan of John Kerry. But never understood any issues or mocking of that photo. He's in a clean-room area. He needs to wear the stuff.
It's not the suit, it's Kerry's Space Avenger with Constipation facial expression that makes him look ludicrous.
JohnAnnArbor said...
Not a fan of John Kerry. But never understood any issues or mocking of that photo. He's in a clean-room area. He needs to wear the stuff.
5/22/20, 9:32 AM
Because it made him look "childish". He was childish but this photo captured it for all to see. His media handlers should NOT have let him be in that pose for a photo. If he wanted/needed a photo in the clean room, there were far more dignified postures he could have struck. Just saying...
Lewis's speculation, that boris's infection was curious, is worth noting,
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/coronavirus-news-testing-antibody-uk-lockdown-deaths-track-trace/
The Trump Campaign should start distributing MAGA masks to anyone who wants one.
"Well, I think it sets an example both ways."
Correct. Three ways, actually: FU, MSM.
I don't think the issue was that he was wearing a bunny suit. I think it was that he was crawling on his hands and knees.
Had he been shot in the same suit but standing up looking at a machine. Perhaps with someone else in a bunny suit pointing something out, nobody would have thought twice.
He also does not have goggles and mask. The whole point of a bunny suit in a cleanroom is to contain any skin particles as they shed.
It's as fake a photo as the famous photo of Obama on a bicycle, supposedly enjoying a ride in the park, with a flat tire.
John Henry
Today we're going to tour the lab that has the cure for Cancer, the
answer to world hunger, and the formula to turn sea-water into gold.
"...but, but Mr. President-- about your mask--what were your thoughts
on why you wouldnt wear a mask? Your mask, are you setting a bad example
by not wearing your mask here, in thisarea of the lab?"
And now the Michigan AG is threatening to prosecute Ford for letting the President enter their plant without a mask.
Interesting Supremacy Clause issue there.
The silly John Kerry photo that I recall was of him windsurfing. I don’t know why that seemed so ridiculous....except that it was him. A rich guy. Doing a rich guy thing. In a rich guy place.
- Krumhorn
Krumhorn: "The silly John Kerry photo that I recall was of him windsurfing. I don’t know why that seemed so ridiculous....except that it was him. A rich guy. Doing a rich guy thing. In a rich guy place."
It was right around the time Kerry had sauntered into a small rural market and asked, on camera, in a fake southern like drawl, "Can I get me a huntin' license here?".
You know, like he was just one of the irredeemable deplorables.
It just showed how fake he was, similar to how he had called US soldiers in S Vietnam murderers akin to Genghis Khan and then tried to wrap himself in the Band of Brothers "Old Glory".
His fakeness was completely exposed in a way similar to the devastating ad of Li'l Mikey Dukakis getting his Alfred Neuman tank ride (with booster seat) while the scroll of key national defense systems he had opposed (basically ALL of them) rolled on the screen.
The man-hating lesbian AG says that Trump is no longer welcome to enter her State.
I just returned from the Land of the Mask People. The big city, for groceries, Home Depot, and Harbor Freight. Virtually everyone was masked. They got out of their cars with masks on. The loudspeaker in the grocery store kept repeating the same message, like something out of dystopian sci-fi: Attention citizens: For your safety, masks must be worn at all times. Stay 6 ft. away from the nearest shopper for their safety. Thank-you for your cooperation.
What struck me watching the lively zombies scurrying about was the realization these people are going to have a very hard time when it comes time to take the masks off. Brainwashed into thinking open faced breathing is a death sentence.
"The Kerry pic is hilarious because he looks like a baby being born."
It looks like he's wearing a full body condom from a bad Woody Allen movie.
3 minutes of suicidal crazy thrill seeking. More people will die in Dane County from driving than from Covid-19 this year. When you get in the car, do you tell Meade "Hold my beer"?
And now the Michigan AG is threatening to prosecute Ford for letting the President enter their plant without a mask.
And her office had a hand in creating the flooding in central Michigan because of some mussels.
Really.
Another article.
Nessel always puts politics ahead of law. ALWAYS. She dropped the cases against the bureaucrats that poisoned Flint (didn't apply the regulations correctly; it's documented and everything how they were warned), because government = good. She then tried to prosecute their consultants, because private sector = bad. She was laughed out of court. But she doesn't learn. If the law isn't on her side, she doesn't care.
Trump should wear a hat that says: "OK, Karen."
One reason I stopped wearing a mask after over a month of it, was that I noticed who was telling me too do it, and I don't respect those people's opinions. It was also giving me throat issues. I would get a really sore throat anytime I wore it all day.
There are lots of posts on YouTube about making a mask out of the heel of a sock. Somebody should make a sock-monkey face mask.
The silly John Kerry photo that I recall was of him windsurfing. I don’t know why that seemed so ridiculous....except that it was him. A rich guy. Doing a rich guy thing. In a rich guy place.
That, and the cycling, and the hunting, and especially tossing around the football at press-attended events were lame because they were so clearly staged. Just do your thing, dude.
https://dailycaller.com/2020/05/21/janice-dean-ana-navarro-defending-cuomo-brothers-cnn/
Trump isn't wearing a mask because he doesn't need to in the situation that he is in. Oudtoors, separated/distancing properly from other people, tested daily with good/negative results.
People wearing masks in public are either paranoid, have real medical issues and are acting prudently, or are doing it because the store/doctors office won't let you in other wise.
Many many more are just doing it for theater. Virtue signalling. See how GOOD I am! I am wearing a mask. Tsk tsk tsk at you for not doing the same.
Um. Yeah. Shut up Karen! (I wish Trump would say that 😀)
I love the white ventilation tube in the Kerry photo that appears to attach to Kerry's butt.
Don't you find it fascinating how wrong the experts have been? This COVID strain is ten times LESS transmissible than ordinary flu. We were told it was so virulent we had to hide indoors. Turns out sunlight kills it and we should have stayed out of doors! Where's Karen B with his great white northern advice now?
In a perverse way, Trump, by not wearing his mask, is encouraging people or, anyway, Democrats to wear a mask....I think wearing a mask makes sense in enclosed spaces or maybe even in crowded outdoor places, but a lot of it is completely unnecessary. I suppose the thinking is that too much is better than not enough. But the media should reflect that too much coverage and politicizing of trivial issues is worse than not enough. Sometimes Trump looks crass and unappealing, but I've never seen him look worse than his press critics. They really are jerks.
Jeez, the Democrats in Michigan are clearly panicked. I’d love to see the polls they’re looking at.
The mask thing is like everything else. Six months from now everyone will deny being fearful and claim to have worn a mask only where the heavy hand of government demanded it. Mask wearing will be equated with overreaction and subservience and masked politicians equated with insisting on the same.
People wearing masks in public are either paranoid, have real medical issues and are acting prudently, or are doing it because the store/doctors office won't let you in other wise.
Or, it's a simple as they are doing what they are told.
Still waiting for a confrontation so I can get them to admit they are wearing a mask "because Gretchen said so!".
I went along at first, but I'll be damned if I'm going to wear warm, moist virus/bacteria vacuum on my face because somebody demands it.
I'm sending my sister in Maryland a packet of Charmin. I'm going out there in June and she actually suggested that perhaps I should pack a couple of rolls. "Just sayin'..."
I feel like a West German sending his poor East German relatives staples of modern life.
I'm going to address it from "The Free State of Arizona".
Anyone seen Mrs B's little boy Kenny lately? Some would observe that the more success the states who are opening up have, the scarcer the Wuflu Karens like Kenny become. In fact, seems like only yesterday Kenny was adamant in the righteousness of his science and the idiocy of us total lock-down denialistas. What happened?
BTW, Kenny, we were down in Florida the past weekend for a few dinners out, a couple of rounds of golf, a haircut and a whiff of freedom. Now, we're just waiting to die.
The Media aren't asking about Masks because they're "DUMB".
They're asking because they're looking for the headline that attacks Trump. As in:
"Despite pleas of doctors, Trump refuses to wear Masks"
"Thousands die because Trump sets bad example"
"Trump denies Science, refuses to wear mask".
that's why they're asking questions. It was the same with HCQ-Zinc pack. The whole point of constantly asking questions was to have headlines like:
"Trump touts Dangerous drug that doesn't work"
"Trump uses Drug found to be useless and dangerous"
"Trump defies science, uses dangerous drug"
All these attacks are coordinated and echoed by the Biden and the Democrats.
Thank God for moderation. Otherwise, we'd have a 50 comments about John Kerry and what happened 16 years ago!
Gusty Winds said...
Yesterday, there was a video flying around of a young African-American male nurse punching young nursing home residents in MI. It went viral last night. James Woods brought it a lot of attention and even Trump tweeted about it. Detroit Police were forced to make an arrest. Seems it was being ignored.
And then… last night… The Michigan Attorney General is on CNN freaking out over Trump not wearing a mask at the Ford Plant. She doesn’t want him to return to the State. Unfortunately we have the same executive intellect running Wisconsin. Silence from Governor Ratched.
I can understand why. After ordering nursing homes to take COVID patients, neither of them want to use the words nursing and home in the same sentence. Masks wouldn’t save the poor residents.
Yeah, here is the video. Not all health care workers are "heroes".
Michigan?
He should have told the press that he removed the mask because he decided to hold his breath. For 15 minutes, or an hour, or however long it was.
Of course no one can hold their breath that long, but, the claim would give the press something to chatter about.
"The lakefront is completely open. There just aren't any chairs and tables out at the Memorial Terrace (last time I looked). There's no food service there."
Well, I looked again. And now there are fences closing the lakefront at the Terrace.
Let’s see if we can follow the logic. Trump is negative for coronavirus, and is prophylactically taking HCQ and zinc. According to published information, masks do not protect the wearer from others, they are there to protect others from the wearer. But if the wearer is negative for coronavirus then a mask would be superfluous, would it not?
Ann Althouse said...
"The lakefront is completely open. There just aren't any chairs and tables out at the Memorial Terrace (last time I looked). There's no food service there."
Well, I looked again. And now there are fences closing the lakefront at the Terrace.
Think about the result of this.
More people will stay in doors. Invariably at higher density and with less air flow.
The goals here have nothing to do with reducing COVID-19 infections/deaths.
But that has been obvious from the start.
Are you helping?
Big Mike said...
Let’s see if we can follow the logic. Trump is negative for coronavirus, and is prophylactically taking HCQ and zinc. According to published information, masks do not protect the wearer from others, they are there to protect others from the wearer. But if the wearer is negative for coronavirus then a mask would be superfluous, would it not?
Constant use of masks is actually dangerous.
Which I think is the goal.
These government regulations look to be an effort to kill as many people as possible. Famine and Depression are acceptable.
Headline at Instapundit: Senator Amy Klobuchar reluctantly admits hydroxychloroquine saved her husband’s life.
I hope the President embraces the mask and recommends it for everybody.
Then we'll finally get rid of them.
Who cares,you fools. Concentrate on that second scoop of ice cream!
The mask as sacrament.
An outward visible sign of inward invisible grace.
Or at least that's what the faith militant wearers think. See also Antifa.
Cause he is an America and can choose....weather to suck his own co2 and germs back in or breather breathe freely mask free.
No back to civic hoax news....we all are dying. Give up your rights to be saved!
""Mr. President, there was a lot of interest about whether you would end up wearing a mask today."
No, there really isn't.
Mrs. stevew and mom just left for the grocery store. On their way out MIL says, "Wait, I'll get my mask and gloves.". Her daughter says, "Don't bother mom, you aren't going in anyway.". Replied mom, "But aren't I supposed to wear them whenever I go out because of the quarantine?".
Sigh. Pause. Sigh. More pause. Daughter: "Alright, bring them if you want to.".
I love those gals!
"I hope the President embraces the mask and recommends it for everybody.
Then we'll finally get rid of them."
It would have been an awesome answer if Trump said: "Because I want you all to wear them, and we all know that we can't both do the same thing, so I make this sacrifice for you.
I always enjoyed the vain, pretentious, and traitorous John Kerry falling on his skis or throwing a football like a girl.
Yeah, he saw some sh!t in Nam for the 2 months he was there, but I never saw anyone with a video camera when I was there in 1969 with the army.
Later, in congressional testimony, he crapped on every soldier still in country by implying terrorist intent. What a POS.
FullMoon said...
Gusty Winds said...
Yesterday, there was a video flying around of a young African-American male nurse punching young nursing home residents in MI. It went viral last night. James Woods brought it a lot of attention and even Trump tweeted about it. Detroit Police were forced to make an arrest. Seems it was being ignored
!!! And that had been going on with multiple victims for MONTHS?!?
They're going to cut that guy's head off, right? Little too quick, but it's not like they do the boats anymore. They better bury that guy under the jail quick before some family member finds him. If that was my dad, the boats would be looking good to that guy right about now.
And to anybody who covered it up. Obviously there's not an intact pair of testicles left in Michigan but are arrests of his supervisors contemplated? Disciplinary action, even?
So if the virus lands on your mask you get to breathe it in for the next half hour as you stroll around the store. Nice and warm virus. Breathe in breathe out. So helpful the moist mask.
tcrosse said...
Headline at Instapundit: Senator Amy Klobuchar reluctantly admits hydroxychloroquine saved her husband’s life.
Well, now we know who will not be offered the VP gig by Biden.
"...about whether you would end up wearing a mask today."
Morbid phrasing: "end up."
Went to Home Depot yesterday. Not a single one of their employees was wearing a mask, and they haven't been since this bullshit started.
I must admit, it was a bit of a challenge to get some Roundup and deck cleaner while stepping over all their dead bodies.
I don't get it.
Is the implication that the President is concerned about his looks ?
The reporter seems more like a parent.
Also, I agree that being tested in the morning for the virus is key. The NYT had a photo of this conundrum on the front page. Talking with the mask on is muffling. When i order in McDonalds i finger point and nod. No point in talking if people can't understand what neither are saying. Then again, I order the same for 30 years at the same places. I don't know. Some sneak in phone calls with the mask below the chin, others hide while doing similar. I personally like to keep my mask on after I smoke a cigarette. Makes me wonder if Hitler kept his moustache the way he did to keep the cigar smell under his nose. Then again, I have a wild imagination, so I do not know.
One question: John Kerry ever looked good in a photo?
One comment: Trump is smarter than Kerry and the press.
Every john kerry photo op is the worst ever
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