Joe Biden attacked President Donald Trump on Tuesday for belittling him for wearing a mask, an issue that has become a partisan flashpoint during the coronavirus pandemic.
The Democratic Party’s presumptive 2020 presidential nominee had a series of choice words for the Republican incumbent, telling CNN in his first in-person interview since March that Trump has become increasingly erratic.
The interview, conducted in Biden’s garden and with social distancing measures in place, followed Memorial Day ceremonies Monday in which Biden wore a mask and Trump was bare-faced. Trump retweeted a photograph of Biden and an accompanying message that mocked the former vice president for wearing a mask.
“Every leading doc in the world is saying you should wear a mask when you’re in a crowd,” Biden said.READ ALSO:“It presents and projects as leadership,” Biden said. “Presidents are supposed to lead, not engage in folly, and be falsely masculine.”Trump has refused to appear in public wearing a mask, and many of the Americans who are bare-faced at demonstrations calling for states to immediately reopen are supporters of the president.
Biden said he did not want to engage in name-calling with a president who is all-too-willing to do so, but he did not hesitate to point out Trump’s apparent anxiety over slippage in the polls.On Tuesday Biden changed the profile image on his Twitter feed to a photograph of him wearing a black mask.
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