{"id":42818,"date":"2020-05-22T02:28:13","date_gmt":"2020-05-22T02:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42818"},"modified":"2020-05-22T02:28:13","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T02:28:13","slug":"the-mask-looks-good-mr-potus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42818","title":{"rendered":"The mask &#8216;looks good,&#8217; Mr. POTUS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=masks%20%23POTUS%20%23pandemic%20%23coronavirus&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/don-mask.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-42819\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/don-mask-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/don-mask-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/don-mask-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/don-mask-768x403.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/don-mask.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump went to a Ford Motor plant today to look at how the automobile factory has been repurposed to manufacture ventilators to help the nation fight the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>FMC has a policy requiring everyone to wear a mask. Trump didn&#8217;t want to be seen wearing a mask. Then he said he donned a mask out of camera view. His idea was that he wanted to &#8220;look good&#8221; in front of the media.<\/p>\n<p>Sheesh. Mr. President, the issue is much larger than looking good. It deals with being a positive example.<\/p>\n<p>Then we saw the picture of Trump wearing that mask. To be honest, I didn&#8217;t give a single thought to how it looked on him. In fact, I found the image to be somewhat reassuring that Donald Trump saw fit to do what the Ford Motor higher-ups said he should do \u2026 not that it changes my view of his total unfitness to lead this country during the worst health crisis in a century.<\/p>\n<p>Looking good ain&#8217;t the issue that should concern Donald Trump. Setting a positive example in this time of dire peril is of paramount importance.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=masks%20%23POTUS%20%23pandemic%20%23coronavirus&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump went to a Ford Motor plant today to look at how the automobile factory has been repurposed to manufacture ventilators to help the nation fight the coronavirus pandemic. FMC has a policy requiring everyone to wear a mask. Trump didn&#8217;t want to be seen wearing a mask. Then he said he donned a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42818\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The mask &#8216;looks good,&#8217; Mr. POTUS<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[9236,9366,9261],"class_list":["post-42818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-coronavirus","tag-ford-motor-company","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42818"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42818\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42820,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42818\/revisions\/42820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}