Wearing a mask during weekend visit to Walter Reed Medical Center (frame grab from his own Twitter feed)

So Trump Wore A Mask, Wow

Honestly, we kind of hate that we’re writing about this. Because common sense shouldn’t have to be a headline.

But that was the big headline all weekend. Getting even more space than Florida recording a record single-day number for anywhere in the U.S. of new COVID-19 cases: 15,300. (Because of course, that was more of an inevitability). And it outplayed by a big margin Trump’s unpardonable commutation of political dirty-trickster Roger Stone’s prison sentence after he covered for Trump, (at least as far as our social media feeds are concerned.) Meaning Trump “wins” that news cycle.

And it is kind of astounding how quickly people who were so opposed to masks because the President was, did a 180. And that does underline a big difference between the Right and Left. Because while we’ve seen a fair number of Trump supporters who in the blink of an eye changed their views on masks as soon as the President wore one (and until then thought they were defending him by aggressively not wearing one), we haven’t seen one Liberal who says they now aren’t going to wear a mask because the President just did.