FRANKFORT, Ky. — Gov. Andy Beshear said he wishes President Donald Trump and those around him who have contracted the coronavirus well as they recover from the illness.

“We all ought to want each other to get better. And I’d say to anybody out there, if you’re feeling differently about it, it’s frustration, it’s other emotions,” Beshear said. “Let’s get back to a place where we all want everybody to get better, and I want them to get better.”

Beshear said he saw a few positives in the way President Trump handled his diagnosis, including how the president was public about it.

“I don’t know the road to get there, but I believe that that allowed people to see that anybody can get the virus,” Beshear said.

But the governor also saw some negatives, including the president’s reluctance to wear a mask before he was diagnosed.

“I’ve been begging for months to have this president wear a mask in public. I sure hope that we will see that now every day, all the time, when he’s not up speaking and can put it on and take it off,” Beshear said. “There are people that I believe that aren’t wearing a mask in our country right now that will start if the president will, and that’s a way to protect a lot of people out there.”

Beshear bashed the president for leaving the Walter Reed Medical Center, where he was hospitalized, to greet supporters outside Sunday, albeit in his car. Beshear said it put the president’s security at risk and reminded him of when he had his own coronavirus scare in August.

“I didn’t want them 20 feet from me. I wanted to make sure that I did not put them in harm’s way,” Beshear said. “What they do every day for my family is something really special, and I don’t think I could live with myself if I was cavalier with their safety in those instances.”

Beshear also worries the president is leaving the hospital too early.