United States President Donald Trump pledged on Monday to resume televised coronavirus briefings and finally spoke out in favor of wearing masks, a marked change in tone as polls show him on the way to electoral disaster.
With just over 100 days until the election against Democrat Joe Biden, Trump is struggling to respond to public anger over his troublesome management of the pandemic that lasted for months.
Since the virus first came to the United States, Trump has insisted that it will simply "go away."
But that solemn claim is now very tense even among loyal supporters, as they watch COVID-19 cases emerge through populous Republican-led states like Florida and Texas.
More broadly, polls show public confidence in Trump's handling of the crisis stalemate.
At all times, he has tried to deny the seriousness of the problem, an attitude symbolized by his mockery of the masks and his refusal to endorse the doctors' recommendations for mass use.
Trump went some way to tackle that Monday with a tweeted photo of himself wearing a black mask with the presidential seal and a call for patriotism.
"Many people say it is patriotic to wear a face mask when you cannot socially distance yourself," Trump wrote. "There is no one more patriotic than me, your favorite president!"
However, his tweet fell short of backing calls for some for a national mandate to wear masks in public.
From NDTV News
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