Trump clashes for the second time with journalist Mason over the muzzle
US President Donald Trump raged with a White House Reuters reporter at a news conference in North Portico on the open air on Monday, and Trump asked journalist Jeff Mason to remove his mask before posing his question to him, saying, "You'll have to first take this off, just take it off."
Pointing to the journalist's mask.
Trump added, "How many feet are you away from me?"
"If you don't take it off, your voice will be very muffled, and if you take it off, it will be much easier," he said.
Mason replied, "I'm going to speak much louder," and raised his voice without taking off his mask, saying, "Is this better?"
Trump responded with an annoyed voice, "Yes, this is better, this is better," leaving Mason asking a question related to a report published last week by The Atlantic magazine alleging that Trump described the soldiers who died in World War I as "idiots" and "losers."
It seems that this confrontation has become familiar between the president and this journalist, because a similar confrontation also occurred between them in a press conference at the White House on May 27, and the phrases were almost identical.
Trump asked the reporter to take off his mask when the reporter asked him, "Can you take it off, because I can't hear you?"
Mason replied, "I will speak louder, sir."
Trump replied, "Well, you are politically correct, please."
Mason replied: "No, sir, I want to be wearing my mask."
Either way, Mason kept the face mask as he posed his question to the president.
Despite the two reactions, the president's tone regarding face masks has changed somewhat since May.
While Trump spent months before refusing to wear face masks in public and underestimating their effectiveness, he eventually wore one in public for the first time in July.
Later that month, he claimed wearing face masks was a patriotic act.
But his tone was not consistent.
In one of his campaigns in Pennsylvania on Thursday, Trump mocked Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden for regularly wearing a face mask.
"Have you ever seen a man who loves a mask like he does?" He asked, in front of a crowd of his supporters.
Biden means.
"It gives him a sense of security," the president added. "If I was a psychiatrist, I would say this man has some big problems."
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