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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I soooo want one of those!
You might as well put on a face mask printed with the words: Place Punch Here. (I live in Northern Virginia)
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You live in exactly the right location to wear the mask, and any rat thug who throws a punch should be beaten to a pulp. Man up and resolve to live like a person of courage and not like a slave.
Saw I guy at Lowe’s yesterday wearing a home made “End the Lockdown Now” t-shirt.
Yahoo “news” and the juvenile, leftwing Saturday night Live.
What a combo.
This from yahoo news, and FReepers, people that know better are actually taking the article seriously. UNBELIEVABLE!
Forget it Jake......it’s yahoo news.
“Where would we be without him?”
No doubt well one our way to being a communist country
That’ll put paid to this facemask crap posthaste.
Joe Biden, not wanting to be left out of the loop- has created a new mask too
“Make Burisma Great again”
I'm carrying my bike helmet around in the truck just in case I'm ever "required" to wear a face mask while inside a store. I'll voluntarily wear it just to freak people out. Should be fun...
I just hope POTUS takes it seriously.
It’s a terrific idea.
Very quick!
As POTUS once said, “There’s a reason you’re Yahoo news”.
Though there have been protests.
Opinion, not news. Pravda at work.
I would suggest moving if at all possible.
Bolivar Peninsula near Galveston Texas has a daily parade of Trump supporters on the weekends. It is so fun. You would love it.
I want one to go along with my Trump shirt, Trump hat, Trump underwear and Trump socks.
You need to move.
;)
Did I say I wouldn’t wear one. . .I’m just saying. . .get ready. . .I been wearing my MAGA hat since 2016. . .I speak from EXPERIENCE, dude. . .don’t need your behind the computer screen self righteousness!
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