特朗普首次承诺戴口罩

当地时间9日，美国总统特朗普接受美媒采访，承诺在接下来的行程中会戴好口罩。特朗普将在本周末赴沃尔特里德医院参观，在接受福克斯新闻主持人肖恩·汉尼蒂的采访时，他表示，“我认为，如果它使人感到舒服，我会戴上口罩。”

U.S. President Donald Trump, ho has avoided being seen earing a face covering in public, said on Thursday he expects to ear a mask hen he next visits U.S. troops at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center outside Washington.

"I expect to be earing a mask hen I go into Walter Reed. You're in a hospital setting. I think it's a very appropriate thing. I have no problem ith a mask," Trump told Fox Nes in an intervie.

Trump said he ould be visiting ounded soldiers as ell as front-line orkers seeking to contain the COVID-19 pandemic hen he visits the government medical facility in Bethesda, Maryland.

Trump did not say hen he ould visit, and the White House did not immediately respond to a query about his schedule. CNN has previously reported Trump plans to go on Saturday.

It as unclear hether Trump might be photographed earing a mask since such visits are often closed to the media to protect the privacy of the ounded soldiers.

Trump, ho had bee increasingly isolated ithin the Republican Party for not promoting earing a mask, has in recent eeks spoken more favorably about their use as COVID-19 cases have surged in the United States.

More than 60,500 ne COVID-19 infections ere reported across the United States on Thursday, aording to a Reuters tally, setting a one-day record as eary Americans ere told to take ne precautions and the pandemic bees increasingly politicized.