Washington: President Donald Trump accused former Vice President Joe Biden for politicizing the coronavirus outbreak and rejected his call for a national mask mandate to combat the pandemic. Trump, who resisted calls to wear masks for months, now endorses the idea, although he favors allowing governors to decide on whether to require them at the state level.
“It’s a shameful situation for anybody to try and score political points while we’re working to save lives and defeat the pandemic,” Trump said during a White House press briefing.
Governors from both Democrat- and Republican-led states across the country have mandated the use of masks or have rolled back reopening plans as cases have surged primarily in the Midwest and Sun Belt. However, Trump claimed that Biden “wants to shut down our economy, and close our schools and grind society to a halt.”
