Trump: ‘I didn’t want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it’
President Donald Trump declined to wear a protective face mask in public Thursday during a visit to a Ford manufacturing plant in Michigan that is turning out ventilators and masks for use in the coronavirus pandemic, despite a request from the carmaker that he wear one and an executive order from the state’s Democratic governor requiring them.
Trump is encouraging the quick end to restrictions on movement and commerce amid a steep economic decline, including the highest unemployment in decades, making masks part of a time period he is trying to leave behind. Trump is tested for the coronavirus daily, which he says means he does not need to wear a mask. Trump had said earlier Thursday that he “tested perfectly this morning, meaning – meaning I tested negative.”
“While my Department will not act to prevent you from touring Ford’s plant, I ask that while you are on tour you respect the great efforts of the men and women at Ford – and across this State – by wearing a facial covering,” Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, a Democrat, wrote in an open letter addressed to Trump.
Appearing maskless with a group of African-American business and community leaders, Trump said his pandemic response had made governors “look good,” but claimed that some Democratic governors now think it is good politics to keep their states on lockdown.
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