On a tour of a Honeywell plant that manufactured N95 respirators for healthcare employees, the president placed on protective goggles but no face mask, making good his comments that he didn't need and possibly wouldn't.
When President Donald Trump eventually left his White House quarantine on Tuesday to visit a protective equipment plant in Arizona, he refused to wear a mask, something he was hesitant to do since the outbreak started.
On a tour of a Honeywell plant producing N95 respirators for healthcare employees, the president was wearing protective goggles with no face shielding, making good on his comments he didn't need to do so and probably wouldn't.
Since the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on April 3 proposed that Americans wear face masks in public, Trump has repeatedly indicated that they are impractical, unnecessary and beneath the integrity of the free world leader.
Trump said that when wearing a mask, he couldn't see himself meeting "presidents, prime ministers, leaders, kings, queens," while diplomatic trips have been curtailed. He mocked a small business executive who had worn a mask at a White House function, asking her to put it back on before she spoke.
Vice President Mike Pence was wearing one at a General Motors plant after drawing backlash for not wearing a mask during a visit to a Mayo Clinic facility last week. He expressed remorse in a Fox News town hall on Sunday.
"I didn't think it was important but at the Mayo Clinic I was supposed to have worn a mask," he said.
Trump and Pence regularly get screened for Covid-19.
Public health experts said even before his trip to Arizona that Trump's remarks had damaged the already muddled White House policy on face masks.
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