Kayleigh McEnany Applauds NBC’s Peter Alexander For Asking Biden Why He Wore a Mask Outside Alone

President Joe Biden gave a speech outdoors today discussing new CDC mask guidelines which say that fully vaccinated people can safely resume outdoor activities without wearing a face mask.

Following the speech, he took a couple of questions from reporters before suggesting that he would “be in trouble” if he took any more and dashing off.

NBC’s Peter Alexander was one of the reporters who was able to ask Biden a question and he asked the president, who is vaccinated, “You chose to wear a mask … Sir, you chose to wear a mask. You chose to wear a mask as you walked out here. What message were you sending by wearing a mask outside, alone?”

Biden gave what can only be described as on odd response where he said, “And watching me take it off, and I’ll put it back on till I get inside.”

Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany tweeted a video of the exchange and applauded Alexander calling it “an EXCELLENT question.”

“What message were you sending by wearing a mask outside alone?”

This was an EXCELLENT question from NBC’s @PeterAlexander… pic.twitter.com/H4KyTo5rjH

— Kayleigh McEnany (@kayleighmcenany) April 28, 2021

This isn’t the first time Alexander has been critical of Biden over a Coronavirus related situation.

From Mediaite:

NBC News White House correspondent Peter Alexander took the initiative to compose a statement that President Joe Biden could use in order to give former President Donald Trump some credit for the success of the vaccination program that’s currently underway.

Several news outlets, including ABC News and The New York Times, criticized President Biden’s address to the nation on the anniversary of the Covid pandemic shutdown for failing to credit Trump.

At Friday’s White House daily briefing, Alexander asked Press Secretary Jen Psaki about that aspect of the speech, and went a step further by reading his own version of what Biden could have said to credit Trump.

Alexander said that Biden “spent a lot of time touting the success of vaccines, yet there was no mention of the president under whose administration these vaccines were developed,” and asked, “Does former President Trump not deserve any credit on vaccines?”

Psaki noted that the President and his team have praised the development of vaccines as “a Herculean incredible effort by science and by medical experts. And certainly, we have applauded that in the past, and we are happy to applaud that again.”

“But, I would say there is a clear difference, clear steps that have been taken since the president took office, that have put us on a trajectory that we were not on when he was inaugurated,” she added. “And leadership starts at the top, it includes mask-wearing, it includes acknowledging it is a pandemic, it includes getting a vaccine in public.”

Psaki went on to say that most of the infrastructure to vaccinate people was not in place when Biden took office.

Alexander conceded some of Psaki’s points, and said: “But on the development of the vaccines, it was Operation Warp Speed that was invented, executed, initiated under the former president.”

“So in the spirit of bipartisanship and unity last night, as opposed to the first comments which were about the denials in the first days weeks or months, why not just say, ‘With credit to the previous administration and the former president for putting us in this position, we are glad that we have been able to move it forward?’” Alexander asked.

“That is an excellent recommendation as a speechwriter,” Psaki said with a smile, then restated much of her previous answer, and told Alexander the purpose of the speech, as she saw it.

“And, in fairness, as he said, to bring all Americans together, which is why I asked,” Alexander chimed in.

“Of course it is, but I would say that Americans are looking for facts, details, they’re looking for specifics, and I don’t think they’re worried too much about applause from six months ago when the president has already delivered that publicly,” Psaki said.

Former Trump and current Biden Covid task force expert Dr. Anthony Fauci has said that while the prior administration helped to develop and ship vaccines, “the actual plan of getting the vaccine doses into people’s arms was really rather vague.”

He said of the Trump administration’s effort “You can’t say it was absolutely not usable at all.”