Biden made a plea for Americans to wear masks for 100 days as cases of COVID-19 surged past 14 million.
However, the plea was met with anger and defiance from supporters of President Donald Trump as reaction to the pandemic remains a deeply partisan issue for some Americans.
One Trump supporter who has met the new mask plea with anger is Huff, who threatened Biden with a tweet reading: “Gonna have to make me @JoeBiden. Good luck.”
Although it is doubtful Biden is going to try and forcibly strap a mask to the former athlete himself, Huff tweeted at the former vice president directly.
“The first day I’m inaugurated to say I’m going to ask the public for 100 days to mask,” Biden said in an interview broadcast Thursday on CNN. “Just 100 days to mask, not forever. One hundred days.”
As of December 3, 282,829 people have died from COVID-19 in the United States, while 14,535,196 people have been infected—the most anywhere in the world.
“And I think we’ll see a significant reduction if we occur that, if that occurs with vaccinations and masking, to drive down the numbers considerably,” Biden added.
Huff has repeatedly railed against mask-wearing. On November 16 he tweeted: “I don’t wear a mask because I’m protecting you from tyranny. #COVID19 = Flu.”
Huff is not the only one protesting against this latest battle in the mask wars.
Georgia Congresswoman-elect Majorie Taylor Greene tweeted: “WE WILL NOT COMPLY!”
Author and radio host Todd Starnes tweeted: “Biden says he will ask Americans to wear face masks during the first 100 days of his administration. I’m not sure that’s enough to stifle the stench of his leftist, America-Last agenda.”
Last week, Huff made headlines for his remarks about International Men’s Day.
“Happy international men’s day to you guys who don’t like to wear dresses, drink soy lattes, or drive a Prius,” tweeted Huff, who famously wore his wife’s underwear during MLB playoffs at one stage of his career.
Huff has been retired from baseball since 2014, but frequently gains attention for his inflammatory remarks on Twitter. For example, he recently called Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenhouse “a national treasure.”
