United States President Donald Trump signs up with West Point cadets throughout the Army-Navy football video game at Michie Stadium on December 12, 2020 in West Point, New York.
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President Donald Trump did not use a mask for a long time while standing carefully to West Point cadets and Naval Academy midshipmen — all of whom used masks — at the Army-Navy football video game on Saturday.
Trump, who was hospitalized in early October after contracting the coronavirus, likewise did not use a mask when he commanded the coin toss prior to the video game at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York.
Neither did the video game’s referee throughout the coin toss, which Navy won by properly calling tails.
The 121st conference on the football stadium in between the 2 service academies was played after coronavirus deaths set a one-day record of 3,309 Americans, pressing deaths this year from the pandemic in the U.S. to more than 297,000. On Saturday, the variety of coronavirus cases to date in the U.S. this year reached 16 million.
After the coin toss, Trump strolled into the stands on the Army side of Michie Stadium, where he was surrounded by cadets using masks.
The lame-duck president placed on a mask eventually throughout the video game’s very first quarter while he remained in the stands, where he stood not far from a cadet worn an Army mule mascot attire.
But the president, who on Friday night promoted the emergency situation usage approval of a coronavirus vaccine, had actually removed his mask by the time he went out of the stands.
And he did not use a mask when he entered into the stands and stood with the Navy midshipmen. With Trump in the stands was White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, who likewise was not using a mask. Meadows was detected with the coronavirus in early November.
U.S. President Trump stands amongst U.S. Army cadets as he goes to the yearly Army-Navy college football video game at Michie Stadium, in West Point, New York, U.S., December 12, 2020.
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Twitter users condemned the leader in chief for not setting a fine example for the cadets and midshipmen at the video game, the 121st football conference in between the 2 service academies.
“Trump was the only person at the Army Navy game not wearing a mask! Protect our troops damn it!,” tweeted someone.
Another composed, “He cares for no one but himself.”
Trump’s failure to use a mask regardless of federal health authorities advising all Americans to do so follows his near-constant rejection to place on a facial covering throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, even as lots of individuals in his orbit have actually checked favorable for coronavirus.
In addition to Meadows, Trump’s better half, his boys Barron and Donald Trump Jr., project supervisor, the White House press secretary, the Housing and Urban Development secretary, and the Republican National Committee’s chairwoman are amongst those who had Covid in current months.
Trump’s individual legal representative Rudy Giuliani, who is supervising his project’s messed up legal efforts to reverse Joe Biden’s win in the governmental election, was launched simply days back from a Washington, D.C., healthcare facility after checking favorable for the coronavirus. Before that, Giuliani’s child Andrew, who is a White House unique assistant to Trump, had coronavirus.
Trump left the video game early, prior to the 2nd quarter had actually ended.
He is anticipated to leave the White House on Jan. 20, regardless of his frenzied legal and rhetorical efforts to reject a Biden triumph on Monday in the Electoral College.
Biden is forecasted to win 306 electoral votes, 36 more than required to clinch the governmental race.
As Trump was en path to West Point Saturday, a federal judge threw out his suit looking for to revoke Biden’s win in Wisconsin’s popular election.
On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to let Texas’ chief law officer file a claim straight to that court that looked for to reverse the election results revealing wins for Biden in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
