GOP Sen: It’d Help If Trump Would Wear A Mask To ‘Get Rid Of This Political Debate’

Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) speaks to reporters while arriving for the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump at the US Capitol on January 31, 2020. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)
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Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) on Sunday said that it would “help” if President Donald Trump wore a mask to stop the political debate surrounding the matter as coronavirus cases surge in several cities.

Asked about seeing Trump rally attendees not wearing masks during a call aired on CNN Sunday, the chair of Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, said it’s up to the President to “lead more by example.”

“I don’t expect the President to tell us what to do in that sense,” Alexander said. “He has Dr. Fauci and other experts who are going to be testifying Tuesday before our committee. They’ll be wearing masks, telling people to wear masks. The health experts are the ones who can do that.”

Alexander then argued that it would “help” if the President — who has yet to wear a mask in public and has repeatedly expressed reluctance to do so — would wear a mask to “help us get rid of this political debate.”

“I’m just saying if wearing masks is important and all the health experts tell us that it is in containing the disease in 2020, it would help if from time to time the President would wear one to help us get rid of this political debate that says if you’re for Trump, you don’t wear a mask, if you’re against Trump, you do,” Alexander said.

On Sunday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said that it’s “definitely long overdue” for a federal mandate on wearing masks as coronavirus cases spike in several states

Watch Alexander’s remarks below:

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  1. GOP Senator who is retiring in six months. Whoop de do.

    Isn’t this the same guy who said during the impeachment trial that he wouldn’t vote to call witnesses because he wouldn’t vote to convict?

  2. Trump? Mask?

    HAHAHAHAAAAAAA!!!

  3. Maybe if we spray some orangey bronzer on an N95…

  4. “help us get rid of this political debate.”

    “Lamar!” Alexander apparently has little understanding of Trump.

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