Fox News’ Brit Hume posted a photo of Joe Biden wearing a protecting mask Monday, comparing the presumptive Democratic nominee to President Donald Trump — who refuses to publicly wear one — and getting criticism in the process.
“This might help explain why Trump doesn’t like to wear a mask in public. Biden today,” tweeted the network’s senior political analyst below a photo of a masked Biden at a Delaware veterans’ memorial for Memorial Day.
Trump retweeted the sentiment.
When he was met with pushback — specifically the argument that Biden was wearing the mask to “protect others” as well as himself amid the coronavirus pandemic — Hume wrote, “Biden was visiting a cemetery with his wife.