Joe Biden wore a mask to a Memorial Day event on Monday and Fox News star Brit Hume pointed out the virtue-signaling involved in the futile gesture.
According to The Daily Wire:
On Monday, presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden made his first in-person public appearance in over two months. The former VP, wearing a black mask to cover his mouth and nose, appeared alongside his wife, Jill Biden, near their Delaware home to lay a Memorial Day wreath at a veterans park.
The mask gained the attention of politicos online, some praising the former VP for setting an “example,” and others suggesting the face mask was bad optics for a potential leader of the free world and essentially useless in outdoor settings where social distancing is possible.
Fox News commentator Brit Hume did the latter, captioning a photo of a masked Biden via Twitter: “This might help explain why Trump doesn’t like to wear a mask in public. Biden today.”
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Swamped with criticism (as well as praise), Hume defended his post about Biden, hitting the Democrat for nothing more than engaging in “virtue signaling.”
This might help explain why Trump doesn’t like to wear a mask in public. Biden today. pic.twitter.com/9l1gw1ljBE
— Brit Hume (@brithume) May 25, 2020
Uh, he was visiting a cemetery and had been in quarantine for weeks. The video showed no one within six feet of him beside his wife. So what was the mask for, other than to virtue signal?
— Brit Hume (@brithume) May 25, 2020
Biden was visiting a cemetery with his wife. Both have been quarantined for weeks. So what others was protecting, pray tell? https://t.co/yR1xbI0V5Q
— Brit Hume (@brithume) May 25, 2020
.@BritHume gets it. The people criticizing him for this tweet don’t. https://t.co/AdVfHmrmL6
— Expert Scientist Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) May 26, 2020
The tweet from Hume quickly went viral.
President Trump slammed Biden earlier in the day:
Sleepy Joe Biden (mostly his reps.) went crazy when I banned, in late January, people coming in from China. He called me “xenophobic” & then went equally “nuts” when we let in 44,000 people – until he was told they were American citizens coming home. He later apologized!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 25, 2020
Nobody in 50 years has been WEAKER on China than Sleepy Joe Biden. He was asleep at the wheel. He gave them EVERYTHING they wanted, including rip-off Trade Deals. I am getting it all back!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 25, 2020
