Donald Trump’s failure to lead by example amid the national pandemic is displayed daily by his aversion to wearing a simple protective face mask. The president has made not only wearing a mask political but the raging coronavirus, too. Trump has let us know that we’re on our own amid a string of crises that he lacks the mettle to deal with.
Health experts and elected leaders want Governor Chris Sununu to require event attendees to wear face-coverings at Trump’s rally in Portsmouth on Saturday, but so far, that advice has fallen on deaf ears.
“Science says wear a mask or we’ll end up like Tulsa,” Portsmouth City Councilor Deaglan McEachern tweeted this week in reference to the spike in coronavirus cases linked to the recent Trump rally in Oklahoma. “[Governor Sununu], your job isn’t only staying safe yourself, it’s keeping NH safe. Do your job.”
The Superspreader in Chief is apparently pleased that Sununu isn’t requiring MAGA supporters to wear a mask, according to CNN’s Manu Raju, who tweeted that Trump said in response to the Republican governor’s apparent plague enthusiasm, “Good.”
Trump, told by radio host Howie Carr today that NH Gov. Chris Sununu doesn’t want to require rallygoers at his Portsmouth rally on Saturday to wear masks, responds: “Good.”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) July 10, 2020
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Sununu isn’t even planning on attending the rally.
“I’m going to go and greet the President as the governor,” he said. “I will not be in the crowd of thousands of people, I’m not going to put myself in the middle of a crowd of thousands of people if that’s your question specifically. I try to — unfortunately, you know, I have to be extra cautious as the governor, I try to be extra cautious for myself, my family.”
While states that aren’t seeing a spike in COVID-19 cases are working to keep people safe, Republican governors and the president seem to be intentionally sabotaging efforts to flatten the coronavirus. Other countries must be horrified at how the United States is handling the pandemic. At Trump’s sparsely-attended Tulsa rally, social distancing was not practiced, and few masks were seen in the crowd. And now, unsurprisingly, Tulsa sees a spike in coronavirus cases following Trump’s rally.
And Mr. President, wearing a mask is “good.” Not wearing one is bad. Really, really bad.
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