Donald Trump took to Twitter on Monday to refer to himself as the “most patriotic” person in the country because he finally decided to wear a mask. Just hours after that tweet was posted, Trump was caught at a fundraiser at his Washington, D.C. hotel walking through a crowd without wearing one.
“Video emerged late Monday night of the president walking through Trump International Hotel, which is less than a mile from the White House, as he participated in a roundtable with supporters of a joint fundraising committee,” reported Katelyn Caralle and Nikki Schwab of Daily Mail. “Also in tow, not adhering to D.C. masks guidelines, were Republican South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and the president’s personal attorney and former Mayor of New York City Rudy Giuliani.”
“The video specifically showed a moment the president, and his entourage, stopped to speak with Madison Cawthorn, the 24-year-old who won the Republican primary for Meadows’ seat in North Carolina’s 11th district, which he vacated when he joined the administration,” continued the report. “The president made an introduction between Cawthorn and Giuliani, who had a black mask pulled below his chin during the interaction and jokingly said ‘Don’t touch me’ when the candidate approached him for a handshake.”
As many have assumed, Trump’s tweet of him wearing a mask is more than likely just an attempt to improve his poll numbers.
