It bothers me too, but I don't think he has a choice. It is not the time to expose the scam. Trump telling frightened people (and there are a lot of them in the Deplorables as revealed by all the mask wearers at his rallies) is a sure loser. Further, I am convinced there is some kind of environmental trauma (not a virus) that is triggering something called COVID-19 even with all the inflation of numbers going on. 5G is a likely cause similar to the way the advent of world-wide radio was the likely cause of the 1918 Spanish flu.