US presidential candidate Democrat Joe Biden, in an interview with CNN, hit back at President Donald Trump over wearing a mask and noted that Trump is an 'absolute fool'

"This macho stuff, for a guy -- I shouldn't get going, but it just, it costs people's lives. It's costing people's lives," Biden said. Trump's position amounts to "stoking deaths," he said.

He added: "Presidents are supposed to lead, not engage in folly and be falsely masculine."

Earlier, Fox News political analyst Brit Hume tweeted a photo of Biden in the mask and glasses and captioned it: "This might help explain why Trump doesn't like to wear a mask in public." Trump later retweeted Hume.