After long resisting wearing a mask in public, U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday he thinks it makes him look like the Lone Ranger -- and he likes it.
"I'm all for masks. I think masks are good," Trump told Fox Business in an interview. "People have seen me wearing one."
Trump immediately undercut the CDC guidance by flatly stating that he wouldn't be following it, suggesting it would be unseemly for the commander in chief to wear a mask as he meets with heads of state. In recent days, many Republicans and members of the White House coronavirus task force have been more outspoken in advocating for Americans to wear face masks in public settings as infections have surged in huge swaths of the South and West.
"When there's nobody around, I don't see any reason to be wearing it," Trump said in a separate interview Wednesday on "America This Week.""I think we are going to be very good with the coronavirus. I think that, at some point, that's going to sort of just disappear, I hope," Trump said on Fox Business.
Trump also told Fox Business that people have seen him wearing a mask. But only one image has surfaced of the president wearing a mask. He donned it for a behind-the-scenes tour of a Ford facility in Michigan in May. Reporters were not allowed to accompany Trump on the tour.
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