Donald Trump certainly tries to pass himself off as a fighter, a patriot, and a badass, but he’s none of those things. Instead, Trump only cares about Trump while the United States is left without a leader amid multiple national crises. As the coronavirus pandemic rages on, Trump acts as if the disease has miraculously disappeared while Americans are dying. Now the president is being called out by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for refusing to wear a protective face mask to lead by example.
Pelosi called the president “cowardly” for not wanting to wear a face mask during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to NPR.
“I totally agree with Joe Biden,” Pelosi said. “As long as we’re faced with this crisis, masks should be mandatory. In fact, the reason the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) hasn’t made it mandatory is because they don’t want to embarrass the president, or insult the president, whatever it is.”
Pelosi noted the selfishness of the president refusing to wear the protective mask.
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“And not wearing a mask himself as an example to the country? How cowardly is that?” she said. “It’s not about protecting yourself, it’s about protecting others.”
Pelosi has called out the president before for being a “weak leader.”
“Leaders take responsibility. So I said he’s a weak leader,” she said. “He doesn’t take responsibility. He places blame on others.”
It’s not just Trump. Vice president Mike Pence, who leads the coronavirus task force, has failed to be consistent in wearing a simple face mask. On Friday, he took to the podium to feed the country false information on the raging pandemic.
“We flattened the curve,” Pence falsely said. The curve is not flattened at all. More than one hundred and twenty-seven thousand Americans are dead from COVID-19. Yet the vice president said there “may be a tendency” among Americans to think “we’re in a time of great losses and great hardship on the American people” like we were two months ago, but in reality, “we’re in a much better place.”
I’m pretty sure all of the dead Americans’ grieving families don’t think we’re in a “much better place.”
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