Trump says he looks like Lone Ranger in a mask and likes it

After long resisting wearing a mask in public, President Donald Trump said Wednesday he thinks it makes him look like Lone Ranger — and he likes it. “I’m all for masks. I think masks are good,” Trump told Fox Business in an interview. “People have seen me wearing one.” Trump’s comments came a day after Republican lawmakers suggested that president wear a mask in public to set a good example for Americans. “If I were in a tight situation with people, I would absolutely,” Trump said in interview.

Trump has long resisted being photographed in a mask. In early April, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued a recommendation that people wear cloth face coverings in public settings where or social distancing measures were difficult to maintain.

Trump immediately undercut CDC guidance by flatly stating that he wouldn’t be following it, suggesting it would be unseemly for commander in chief to wear a mask as he meets with hes of states. On Wednesday, he sounded a different tone, saying, “I h a mask on. I sort of liked way I looked. OK. I thought it was OK. It was a dark black mask, and I thought it looked OK.

“It looked like Lone Ranger,” he continued, a reference to fictional law-and-order character from American Old West who wore a black eye mask. “I have problem with that, and if people feel good about it, y should do it.” In recent days, many Republicans and members of White House coronavirus task force team have been more outspoken in vocating for Americans to wear face masks in public settings as infections have surged in huge swaths of South and West.

White House senior viser Kellyanne Conway on Wednesday ted that Trump is regularly tested for coronavirus, as are his aides. White House visitors and members of media who are in close proximity to him and Vice President Mike Pence are also tested. “I’ve said wear m, first ly has said wear m, president’s ministration has said wear m,” Conway said.