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President Donald Trump told The Wall Street Journal that he believes that some Americans are wearing masks during the coronavirus pandemic not to protect others but simply to show that they disapprove of him.
Trump's interview with The Journal's Michael C. Bender was published on Thursday, a day after troubling accounts — contained in a bombshell book by John Bolton, his former national security adviser — emerged of Trump's handling of foreign affairs and competence.
Trump also told The Journal that his issue with masks was that people sometimes touch them, increasing the risk of infection.

Masks will be optional at the Tulsa Rally...there will be no 'social distancing'

Originally Posted by Newsweek

....partitions in some areas and regular cleaning throughout the event.
Masks will also be available at the event to every attendee. But Trump is not urging people to wear them, despite advice from the country's top infectious diseases expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, that people should have them on at large gatherings.
"If people want to wear masks I think that's great. I won't be. Not as a protest but I don't feel that I'm in danger," Trump said, describing masks as "a double-edged sword."
"I recommend people do what they want."
Protesters are expectedto voice their opposition to Trump at the event, which was postponed by a day so as not to coincide with Juneteenth, a day that marks the official end of slavery in 1865.
On Friday, Trump suggested on Twitter that any demonstrators could expect the police to use force, saying "protesters, anarchists, agitators, looters or lowlifes" would not be treated "in the same way" as they had been in New York, Seattle, Minneapolis: "It will be a much different scene!"
Trump reiterated that he feels safe to hold the Tulsa rally despite the background of a rising number of new coronavirus cases in Oklahoma and other states nearby.
"I don't feel that I'm in danger," he told Axios. "I've met a lot, a lot of people, and so far here I sit."