Ignoring CDC requirements to the tune of “Live and Let Die” wasn’t the ideal photo opp for Trump’s first trip outside the White House in a month
Trump shortly before departing to Arizona to tour a Honey facility producing N-95 masks. Photo: AFP via Getty Images We’re committed to keeping our readers informed.
We’ve removed our paywall from essential coronavirus news stories. Become a subscriber to support our journalists. Subscribe now. On Tuesday, President Trump broke a month-long streak of sheltering-in-place in the White House to visit a facility in Phoenix, Arizona, where N-95 respirators are manufactured. His first venture outside his highly regulated and coronavirus-tested residence could have gone better: At the Honeywell mask factory, the president did not wear a mask.
It shouldn’t be a surprise that the president chose not to follow CDC recommendations that Americans wear a mask while in public. Never someone who felt particularly beholden to the rule of law or voluntary guidelines, Trump said on April 3 that “wearing a face mask as I greet presidents, dictators, kings, queens, I don’t know, I don’t see it for myself.” Apparently, he can add factory workers to that list, even though a sign at the facility advised workers to wear them during their shifts.
The administration certainly had advance notice that Trump would face criticism for not wearing a mask indoors around strangers, as last week Vice-President Mike Pence, the head of the White House coronavirus task force, was condemned for his decision not to wear one in a Mayo Clinic facility, breaking the clinic’s policy that face coverings are mandatory.
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