President Trump’s reelection campaign has begun selling face masks after he started encouraging supporters to wear the coverings.
The line of $15 masks comes in a variety of colors, including camouflage. Some of the masks feature Trump’s name in all capitals, some read “Trump-Pence 2020,” and others include “MAGA,” the acronym of Trump’s “Make America Great Again” campaign slogan. The campaign is also selling similar “face/neck covers” for $18.
The Trump campaign said in a Monday email that the new offerings were intended to provide “supporters with new ways to show their support for President Trump’s reelection while taking safety precautions during the coronavirus outbreak.”
“President Trump has been leading the nation through the crisis, taking a whole-of-America approach to fight coronavirus, using the best of public and private resources to slow the spread in the United States,” the email continued. “The President urges all patriotic Americans to wear a face cover when they are unable to socially distance.”
Early in the pandemic, Trump refused to be seen in public wearing a mask and was photographed publicly wearing one for the first time in early July while he was visiting Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Since then, the president has been more vocal about wearing masks, including a July 20 tweet that appealed to the patriotism of those who wear the coverings.
A recent poll found that 82% of U.S. voters either “strongly” or “somewhat” support a national mask mandate, including some two-thirds of GOP voters.
“I don’t love wearing them either. Masks may be good, they may be just okay, or they may be great,” Trump told supporters in a campaign email earlier this month. “They can possibly help us get back to our American way of life that so many of us rightfully cherished before we were so terribly impacted by the China Virus.”
