Trump told WSJ Covid-19 testing is overrated and some people wear masks to signal disapproval of him

[highplainsdem]

https://www.politicususa.com/2020/06/18/trump-testing-masks.html

Trump sat down for an interview with The Wall Street Journal who reported:

The president said testing for Covid-19 was overrated and allowed for the possibility that some Americans wore facial coverings not as a preventative measure but as a way to signal disapproval of him.

….

“I personally think testing is overrated, even though I created the greatest testing machine in history,” Mr. Trump said, adding that more testing in the U.S. led to an increase in confirmed cases that “in many ways, it makes us look bad.”

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[OrlandoDem2]

1. This means no one will wear the mask they are handed in Tulsa.

[Faux pas]

2. Yep

every time I mask up I'm thinking 'take that hump!'

[Solly Mack]

3. I hear him encouraging his followers to not wear a mask

in a show of support for him. Making those of us in a mask the enemy, so act accordingly.

Just another way for Trump to encourage attacks on people who don't support him.

[Merlot]

4. So now trumpft has given his followers the "open season on mask wearers" signal

[soothsayer]

5. Is he stopping his unreliable Abbott testing

For everyone at the WH?

Didn’t think so.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Yep, everything in the entire universe is just about him!

[spanone]

7. That's a twofer for wearing a mask

[greenjar_01]

8. It's clear that his ability to make everything about himself is pathological

It's also extremely weird at this point - like an extreme case even within a narcissist pathology. The idea that almost everyone who wears a mask is doing so to protect themselves and others doesn't register for him, because he simply can't conceive of the existence of other consciousnesses.

I wish some reporter would say "That's the most narcissistic things I've ever heard. How are you making EVEN THIS about yourself first?"

It's absurdity.

[ibegurpard]

9. Right i go to the grocery store

As late at night as i possibly can to avoid crowds and wear a mask and gloves just to signal my disapproval of Trump.
Fuck off.