Trump news – President boasts about playing golf ‘very fast' as Florida records biggest single-day increase in coronavirus cases
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Your support makes all the difference.As the number of coronavirus infections in the US surges for the third day in a row to more than 69,000 cases, President Donald Trump has appeared for the first time in public wearing a face mask, at a medical facility outside Washington.
Mr Trump has eschewed the wearing of face coverings in public, previously saying he “didn’t want the press to get the pleasure of seeing it”. But with Covid-19 infections and deaths rising across the country, the president made an abrupt U-turn earlier this month and claimed he is “all for masks”.
On Saturday, Mr Trump appeared to express confidence in rapper Kanye West, who recently announced plans to run for the White House and distanced himself from the president.
Retweeting an article in which one of his own campaign advisers mused that Mr West may be trying to take black votes away from Democrat candidate Joe Biden, Mr Trump added: “That shouldn’t be hard. Corrupt Joe has done nothing good for Black people!” He added nothing further to the theory.
The president is back at the White House after another "VERY fast" game of golf
Playing the victim
Chris Stevenson writes:
Donald Trump has taken back a bit of control – or at least that is what he will want his supporter base to think.
After a few weeks where pressure has been building over America’s response to the coronavirus and the effect it will have on the economy, the commuting of Roger Stone‘s prison sentence gives the president a chance to do two things he likes – show his power and portray himself as a victim waging a one-man war against the enemies of the nation.
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