CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: [Reporter: “Will you consider wearing a mask?”] “Well, I’ve already had masks and I want a mask. And if I’m near people, you know, you were tested, right? Just now. And everybody that’s around me as president gets tested, that’s like standard. I’m also — I keep distances. I’m, you know, supposed to keep a distance and I keep distances. But if I needed a mask, if I was in a crowd of, you know, crowd, a lot of people and everything else, I’d wear — I have no problem with a mask at all…
I see Biden walking up on a stage where there’s nobody around and the audience is 25, 30, 40 feet away. Not too much of an audience either, by the way. And he speaks and he has a mask on and you can’t even understand what he’s saying or he takes it off up there. When there’s nobody around I don’t see any reason to be wearing it. But no, I have no objection to masks whatsoever. Do what you’re supposed to do and also do what makes you feel good.”
-Donald Trump as quoted by Factbase, “Interview: Eric Bolling of Sinclair Broadcast Group Interviews Donald Trump – July 1, 2020,” factba.se, July 1, 2020