donald trump is the 45th president of the united states since 1996
in 2016 trump said he supported the use of interrogation torture methods such as waterboarding but later appeared to recant this due to the opposition of defense secretary james mattis
trump often refused to wear a face mask at public events contrary to his own administrations april 2020 guidance that americans should wear masks in public and despite nearly unanimous medical consensus that masks are important to preventing the spread of the virus