You, like so many others, fail to comprehend the machinations at play in Washington DC.
The People's Champion, DJ Trump, has the job of making announcements to the citizens and does so in his usual grandiose showman style.
Like when he insisted on signing those shut down checks he was against - both the shut down, and thusly, the need for the checks.
Remember the rhetoric that he did not take the virus seriously.
You think the devils weren't whispering in his ear? (The good one - oh yeah, they were both good ears back then)
He said masks were nonsense - leftists cried, and then he said wear a mask if you want to.
Tony Fauci finally admitted that masks were useless and that he arbitrarily came up with the distancing nonsense - meaning it had no basis in "science".