Donald Trump has defended his decision to flout official social distancing guidelines to play golf during a long weekend to remember America's war dead, saying his "little exercise" had been portrayed as "a mortal sin". Mr Trump drew criticism after he was pictured without a mask and shaking hands while playing golf in Virginia on Memorial Day weekend as the US coronavirus death toll approached 100,000. In a tweet on Monday, the US president wrote: "Some stories about the fact that in order to get outside and perhaps, even a little exercise, I played golf over the weekend. The Fake & Totally Corrupt News makes it sound like a mortal sin - I knew this would happen!" He went on to add that it was his first game of golf in almost three months. Meanwhile Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential candidate, made his first in-person appearance in more than two months on Monday as he marked Memorial Day by laying a wreath at a veterans park near his Delaware home. Mr Biden opted to wear a mask, in contrast to Mr Trump. "I feel great to be out here," Mr Biden told reporters through his black cloth mask. His visit to the park was unannounced and there was no crowd waiting for him.
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