President Trump, who has now tested positive for coronavirus, has a history of playing down coronavirus risks and scoffing at the need for precautions.
At the debate in Cleveland on Tuesday night, President Trump mocked former Vice President Joe Biden for wearing a mask in public as a precaution against the coronavirus.
A little more than 48 hours later, the president announced that he and first lady Melania Trump had tested positive for COVID-19. The White House said Friday that they both have mild symptoms and will quarantine for an undetermined period of time. Hours before his diagnosis was announced, Trump, in a pre-taped message, told guests at the annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner that"the end of the pandemic is in sight."
"You know it's very hard, when you're with soldiers, when you're with airmen, when you're with the Marines, and the police officers, I'm with them so much. And when they come over to you it's very hard to say, 'Stay back! Stay back!' It's a tough kind of a situation," the president said.
"You’re going to have to take that off, please," Trump told Mason."You can take it off. How many feet away are you?”
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