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Joe Biden called President Trump an ‘absolute fool’ for mocking the former Vice President’s mask-wearing appearance when he wore a mask in public on Memorial Day.

‘He’s a fool. An absolute fool to talk that way,’ Biden said today in his first sit-down interview since the coronavirus pandemic hit in full force.

Biden, who wore a black mask and sunglasses Monday as he paid respects at a veterans cemetery along with his wife, Jill, accused Trump of engaging in ‘macho stuff’ and compared him to a high schooler who posed as a tough athlete.

‘This macho stuff, for a guy — I shouldn’t get going, but it just, it costs people’s lives. It’s costing people’s lives,’ Biden told CNN in a sit-down interview conducted outside his Wilmington home.

‘Presidents are supposed to lead, not engage in folly and be falsely masculine,’ Biden said.

‘I mean, every leading doctor in the world is saying we should wear a mask when you’re in a crowd, and especially when you know you’re going to be in a position where you’re going to inadvertently get closer than 12 feet to somebody. I know we’re 12 feet apart, I get that,’ Biden said.

He referenced people from his school days. ‘They walked around with a ball in their hand but they didn’t like to hit very much,’ Biden said.

Asked what wearing a mask projected, Biden responded: ‘Leadership. What it presents and projects is leadership. Presidents are supposed to lead, not engage in folly and be falsely masculine. It reminds me of the guys that I grew up with playing ball. They’d walk around with a ball in their hand, but they didn’t like to hit very much.’

 

 

Trump at the White House today denied he was making fun of Biden for wearing a mask, when a masked reporter asked him about it. Trump said he couldn’t hear and asked the reporter to remove it.

‘You want to be politically correct,’ Trump said. ‘No. I just want to wear the mask,’ the reporter responded.

While he’s not wearing a mask, anyone visiting the White House is required to.

 

People look on as President Trump speaks during an event in the Rose Garden at the White House.

 

Trump retweeted a post on Memorial day by Fox News commentator Brit Hume that pictured Biden in a black mask.

‘This might help explain why Trump doesn’t like to wear a mask in public. Biden today,’ Hume wrote.

‘I thought that was fine. I wasn’t criticizing him,’ Trump insisted, despite having retweeted the message.

Trump didn’t wear a mask on a tour of a Michigan factory last week, although he did wear one when he was away from the media.

White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany today called it ‘peculiar’ that Biden wore a mask in public but not in his home.

‘It is a bit peculiar, though, that in his basement, right next to his wife, he’s not wearing a mask. But he’s wearing one outdoors when he’s socially distant. So I think that there was a discrepancy there,’ she said.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends wearing cloth face coverings in public settings where social distancing measures are hard to maintain.

The guidelines do not suggest wearing masks at home.

McEnany said Biden’s choice to wear a mask did not strike Trump as “a very data-driven decision.”

 

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