The president says he wore a mask at the Ford plant--but in an area that was not visible to the press.
The president told reporters that he did, however, wear both a mask and goggles in an area where Ford executives"preferred it," but which was not visible to the press.The Ford plant, like all other manufacturing facilities in Michigan, requires that everyone in the facility must wear a mask. In-person visits have also been suspended in the state, but the ban has been waved for Trump's visit.
A mask-less President Donald Trump tours the Ford Rawsonville Plant with Ford Motor Company executives on May 21, 2020.In anticipation of his visit, Michigan State Attorney General Dana Nessel wrote a letter to the White House asking the president to wear a mask because of his exposure to COVID-19. Before leaving the White House Thursday morning, Trump said he didn't know if he would wear a mask at the factory."We're going to look at it. A lot of people have asked me that question. I want to get our country back to normal. I want to normalize," he said.
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