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This is a rush transcript from Tucker Carlson Tonight, April 27, 2021. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
TUCKER CARLSON, FOX NEWS HOST: Good evening and welcome to TUCKER CARLSON TONIGHT.
On Friday, Joe Biden participated in a kind of Summit with more than a dozen other world leaders. They were all there, including the guy who runs France.
The meeting itself turned out to be only marginally interesting. What got your attention was Joe Biden.
Of the 16 heads of state who were present, only Joe Biden wore a facemask. He sat there silently, nose and mouth covered in black cloth like a wrestler from an old Western, as maskless Vladimir Putin held forth on international affairs.
New York Magazine’s Olivia Nuzzi at April 12 s briefing, which was why has Biden continued to wear masks.
“Why was President Biden the only world leader at the Climate Summit Zoom who was wearing a mask,” wondered Doocy.
Contributing to an unhelpful narrative that getting vaccinated wasn’t worth it if one’s behavior can’t change, Psaki bragged that Biden and White House staff were continuing to fully adhere to mask-wearing so as to set an example (click “expand”):
PSAKI: Well, I would certainly have to ask her team about that specifically, but I would tell you also that her focus is not on the border. It’s on addressing the root causes in the Northern Triangle and that’s why the majority of her time has been spent on working with on a diplomatic level, she is going to speak have a bilateral meeting with the President of Guatemala this afternoon. She’s going to speak with the President of Mexico next week and she’s working with them to ensure there are s
28 Apr 2021
Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” host Tucker Carlson opened his program with a monologue questioning the push for individuals to wear a mask, despite having received the vaccine.
Carlson pointed to media personalities and politicians who insist on masks but offer no scientific justification for doing so.
Transcript as follows:
CARLSON: On Friday, Joe Biden participated in a kind of Summit with more than a dozen other world leaders. They were all there, including the guy who runs France.
The meeting itself turned out to be only marginally interesting. What got your attention was Joe Biden.
MS. PSAKI: Okay. Our special guest today is our Director of the National Economic Council, Brian Deese. And he will be as you may know, Brian was Senior Advisor to President Obama and previously served as Acting Director of the Office of Management and Budget. And in the Obama-Biden administration, Brian helped coordinate policy development for tax policy, housing, clean energy, manufacturing, and the automotive industry.
Brian has agreed to come despite having the unenviable task of not being able to roll out many details of our joint session speech or the American Families Plan, but we still wanted to have him here to provide some context on some of the questions you all had raised. And he’ll take will only be able to take a couple of questions.
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Joe was mocked relentlessly on social media for being the only world leader to wear a mask during a virtual climate summit. Who can forget the viral image:
Old, slow Joe Biden seems to have no idea how and when to use a mask. Here he is ALL ALONE wearing a mask on a Zoom call. Notice none of the 15 other world leaders are wearing a mask: pic.twitter.com/dUDEZirSHu
During Monday’s press briefing, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was asked about it.
“Why was President Biden the only world leader at the Climate Summit Zoom who was wearing a mask?” Fox News’ Peter Doocy asked.