“I thought she was overreacting,” he wrote alongside a selfie from the roof of City Hall, saying it was another example of why “we should always listen
to mothers.”
The efforts clash with comments from Mr. Trump, who emphasized that the C.D.C. recommendation was voluntary and that he didn’t plan to follow along.
“Somehow sitting in the Oval Office behind that beautiful Resolute Desk — the great Resolute Desk — I think wearing a face mask as I greet presidents, prime ministers, dictators, kings, queens, I don’t know,” he said. “Somehow I don’t see it for myself. I just don’t.”