{"id":21040,"date":"2020-07-19T15:01:41","date_gmt":"2020-07-19T19:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=21040"},"modified":"2020-07-19T15:01:41","modified_gmt":"2020-07-19T19:01:41","slug":"president-trump-proclaims-no-national-mask-mandat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=21040","title":{"rendered":"President Trump Proclaims: \u2018No\u2019 National Mask Mandat"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Trump: \u2018No\u2019 National Mask Mandate \u2014 \u2018I Don\u2019t Believe in That\u2019<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->JEFF POOR<br \/>\nBreitbart<\/p>\n<p>In an interview set to air on this weekend\u2019s broadcast of \u201cFox News Sunday,\u201d President Donald Trump rejected the possibility of a national mask mandate.<\/p>\n<p>Trump told Fox News Channel\u2019s Chris Wallace he was against the mask mandate because he wanted people to have a \u201ccertain freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, I want people to have a certain freedom, and I don\u2019t believe in that,\u201d Trump said. \u201cNo, and I don\u2019t agree with the statement that if everybody wear a mask, everything disappears. Hey, Dr. Fauci said, don\u2019t wear a mask. Our Surgeon General \u2013 terrific guy \u2013 said, don\u2019t wear a mask. Everybody who is saying don\u2019t wear a mask \u2013 all of sudden everybody\u2019s got to wear a mask, and as you know, masks cause problems, too. With that being said, I\u2019m a believer in masks. I think masks are good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2020\/07\/17\/trump-no-national-mask-mandate-i-dont-believe-in-that\/\">https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2020\/07\/17\/trump-no-national-mask-mandate-i-dont-believe-in-that\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump: \u2018No\u2019 National Mask Mandate \u2014 \u2018I Don\u2019t Believe in That\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}