Posted on 05/03/2020 9:15:51 AM PDT by blam
President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign is ordering red “Trump branded” face masks, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday.
Campaign organizers hope the masks, meant to guard against the spread of the coronavirus, will help Trump woo older voters who are particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 — and who are increasingly supporting Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden amid the pandemic, according to the Journal. They’ll be handed out free or provided in exchange for a campaign a donation, the newspaper reported.
The masks are an ironic touch, given that the president dismissed the threat of COVID-19 as recently as March. He also doesn’t wear protective masks and has indicated he has no intention of ever wearing one.
Vice President Mike Pence triggered controversy Tuesday when he ignored a Mayo Clinic requirement to wear a mask during a tour of the medical complex. He was the only person in sight without one as he greeted health care workers and at least one patient.
In a fact-follows-fiction twist, “Saturday Night Live” in February mocked the Trump administration’s fumbling response to COVID-19 with a sketch featuring Beck Bennett as Pence and Kenan Thompson as Housing Secretary Dr. Ben Carson pitching “Make America Great Again” masks. The masks could be purchased from the White House, but “it may take a couple months for delivery because they are made in Wuhan, China,” Thompson’s Carson cautioned.
Trump has trailed Biden nationally among voters 65 and older in four national Wall Street Journal/NBC New polls this year. Trump won 52% of those voters against Democratic rival Hillary Clinton in 2016, according to exit polls.
In another bid to woo older voters, Trump’s campaign on Sunday will begin airing a TV ad aimed at beefing up his profile as a fighter against COVID-19.
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MAGA
Good!
What “fumbling response to COVID-19”?
People would BEG us to take off those masks!
YES!
I could go for that. Only way I’m gonna wear a mask. Brilliant! Maybe grabbing a face mask off of somebody will be a felony lol
You might as well put on a face mask printed with the words: Place Punch Here. (I live in Northern Virginia)
older voters who are particularly vulnerable to COVID-19 — and who are increasingly supporting Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden ...
Would be a shame if those that plan to vote for joe didn’t make it to election day
old fools
I agree. This will end the whole we must wear mask rule. Brilliant move!!!!
Imagine lots of them showing up in all the Democrat strongholds. Target those areas.
Why are they not social distancing in the skit on the show in New York?
“You might as well put on a face mask printed with the words: Place Punch Here. (I live in Northern Virginia)”
Then wear a t-shirt that says, “I shoot back.”
Maybe those same old fools will think twice now that old Joe may have been branded #MeToo.
Country of origin tag
Made in TRUMP Country
Or
Made in ChiCom
You pick
I want one just to wear to Lowe’s.
I’m not a big mask wearer, but I’d definitely get one as a collector’s item.
“The masks are an ironic touch, given that the president dismissed the threat of COVID-19 as recently as March. He also doesn’t wear protective masks and has indicated he has no intention of ever wearing one. “
LOL!
the fact that all of their life experiences haven’t taught them anything and that they are even CONSIDERING joe makes me not care if they live or die.
The masks are an ironic touch, given that the president dismissed the threat of COVID-19 as recently as March.
What did Fauci say about coronavirus in January and February?
He also doesn’t wear protective masks and has indicated he has no intention of ever wearing one.
Me neither. Never put on a face mask in my life. Have no intention of ever putting on one.
That is the beauty of it. No one is stopping anyone from putting on face masks(unless you are trying to rob a bank). The Trump campaign is merely saying, “Hey if you feel you need to put on a face mask, we have a very nice Trump face mask for ya”.
A real legend in the profession of Journalism......Mary Fapenpuss.
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