Tucker Carlson pokes fun at Biden wearing a mask on Zoom

Tucker Carlson has mocked Joe Biden for wearing a face mask on a Zoom call with other world leaders, joking that the U.S. president was concerned about catching ‘digital COVID’.

Carlson further noted that Biden, earlier on Tuesday, had announced that fully-vaccinated Americans like him could remove their face masks outdoors, in uncrowded spaces.

He, however, walked out alone from the White House wearing his face mask.

Carlson said that the White House had a ‘mask fetish’, and ridiculed Biden for what his supporters see as his commitment to public health.

‘The meeting itself turned out to be only marginally interesting,’ said Carlson, of Friday’s climate change summit.

Joe Biden (top right) was one of the only world leaders to be wearing a face mask on Zoom

Biden is pictured on Friday, at the virtual climate change summit he convened

The White House on Friday said that Biden was surrounded by other people on Friday’s Zoom

‘What got your attention was Joe Biden. Of the 16 heads of state who were present, only Joe Biden wore a face mask. He sat there silently, nose and mouth covered in black cloth like a wrestler from an old western as Vladimir Putin held forth on international affairs – but here’s the weirdest part: that meeting took place over Zoom.’

Other world leaders were at times wearing face masks, with Italy’s representative in a mask on camera.

Yet Carlson said that the United States was blindly accepting the recommendations, without questioning their rationale.

‘All precautions against COVID are considered legitimate by the American news media, no matter how self-evidently lunatic they may be,’ he said.

‘Covering your face during a Zoom call, drive to work alone with a mask on, it’s all normal, says The New York Times.’

Jen Psaki, the White House spokeswoman, said that Biden was wearing a face mask both ‘to send a message’, and also because there were other people in the room so that was their protocol.

Yet Carlson did not accept her explanation, and further ridiculed the 78-year-old, who was elected on a promise to get the pandemic under control.

Tucker Carlson on Tuesday night laughed at Joe Biden’s strict adherence to COVID protocols

Biden on Tuesday walked out of the White House, alone, still wearing his face mask out of habit

The 78-year-old took his mask off to say masks were not necessary outdoors with small groups

Thirty two million Americans have been infected by the virus – almost double the second hardest-hit country, India – and the country has the world’s worst death toll, with 573,000 having died.

‘The message is that Joe Biden is putting in place precautions, those would be sensible precautions, precautions against Zoom because it turns out COVID is digitally transmissible,’ said Carlson.

‘It travels through the fibers, the virus embeds itself among the one and zero and springs unsuspected, teeth bared and ready to strike, from any available hot spot – whether it’s at Starbucks, down in your basement rec room, even the Oval Office.

‘Digital COVID could be anywhere – where there’s an internet connection, there’s a pandemic.’