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President Trump<\/a>, after months of refusing to wear a coronavirus face mask<\/a> in public, posted a photo on Twitter Monday of himself wearing a face mask, declaring \u201cThere is nobody more Patriotic than me.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are United in our effort to defeat the Invisible China Virus, and many people say that it is Patriotic to wear a face mask when you can\u2019t socially distance,\u201d Trump wrote. \u201cThere is nobody more Patriotic than me, your favorite President!\u201d <\/p>\n

The photo marked a significant reversal for Trump, who, until earlier this month, has largely rebuffed wearing a mask, much less issuing a nationwide mandate for one to combat the coronavirus. <\/p>\n

The president was spotted wearing a mask for the first time<\/a> while visiting the Walter Reed military hospital on July 11. <\/p>\n

Pressed by Fox News\u2019 Chris Wallace<\/a> during a Sunday interview<\/a>\u00a0as to whether he\u00a0regretted not wearing a mask from the beginning and whether he will consider a national mandate, Trump said he wants people to have the freedom to choose. <\/p>\n

\u201cI want people to have a certain freedom, and I don\u2019t believe in that,\u201d Trump said. <\/p>\n

He also said he did not agree with the Centers for Disease Control’s\u00a0guidelines that \u201cif everybody wore a mask for 4-6 weeks, we could get this under control.\u201d <\/p>\n

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\u201cI don\u2019t agree with the statement that if everybody wear a mask everything disappears,\u201d Trump said. \u201cHey, Dr. Fauci said don\u2019t wear a mask. Our surgeon general \u2013 terrific guy \u2013 said don\u2019t wear a mask.\u201d <\/p>\n

As of Monday, the United States has recorded more than 3.8 million\u00a0cases of the novel coronavirus with nearly 141,000 deaths, according to the latest figures from Johns Hopkins University<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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Trump has long insisted that a spike of cases in recent months is attributable to the nation\u2019s robust testing system. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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