President Trump mocked Joe Biden for wearing a mask and asked a crowd in Pittsburgh why the Democrat would spend ‘all that money on the plastic surgery’ to cover up his face.
Trump had his predominantly mask-less audience laughing, as he poked fun at Biden for mask-wearing on the same day that marked more than 200,000 Americans dying of COVID-19.
‘He feels good about the mask,’ Trump riffed. ‘I wonder in the debate, it will be him and I the stage, is he going to walk in with a mask?’
‘I’ll be honest, he feels good about that mask, and that’s OK,’ Trump said of his rival.
He then paused, waiting to drop his next line.
‘I mean honestly, what the hell did he spend all that money on the plastic surgery if he’s going to cover it up it up with a mask,’ Trump said.
Trump continued down this path, asking his supporters: ‘The question is will he leave it on during the debate?’
Biden and Trump are slated to go head-to-head on the presidential debate stage a week from today in Cleveland, Ohio.
‘It makes him feel comfortable,’ Trump said of mask-wearing, snickering at Biden for sometimes letting his mask ‘hang down on his ear.’
Trump’s personal punch at Biden’s looks came as he vowed to take the ‘gloves off’ with just 42 days before the presidential election.
In a recent profile of Joe Biden in New York magazine, reporter Olivia Nuzzi noted that, supposedly located behind the ear of Biden, is a scar that is rumored to be the result of a facelift.
Nuzzi wrote that Trump has privately marveled at the ‘work’ he claims was done on Biden’s smooth 77-year-old face, calling it a ‘minor obsession’ of Trump.
Of course, there has been speculation about Trump’s hair and fake-tan orange skin color for years.
A startling photoshopped picture of Trump shows the former reality TV host without his signature orange-hued tan and infamous comb-over hairstyle to show what he would look like ‘au naturale’.
People say the “real” Trump looks like everyone from former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes, to Russia President Vladimir Putin, to Daddy Warbucks in the movie Annie.
“I guess this is what Donald would look like if he was a normal man,” wrote New Zealand-based photographer Jordan Rivers on Facebook.
Rivers said he changed the president’s appearance by using the skin color around his eyes as reference for Trump’s natural skin tone.
“I wanted to see what would happen if I took the natural skin color from around his eyes and applied it to the rest of his face and took away the comb over and hair dye,” wrote Rivers. “So I guess this is what Donald would look like if he was poor.”
The stark contrast of the side-by-side images sparked an incredible response on both Facebook and Twitter.
The social media posts amassed more than 100,000 ‘likes’ and thousands of comments, varying in nature presumably depending upon the author’s political allegiance.
The various ‘shades’ of Donald Trump through the decades.
Rivers, learning a bit about the current state of American politics, said it didn’t take long for Trump supporters to attack him personally for posting the picture online.