Pictures show Donald Trump wearing mask after Ford factory row
President says he did not want to ‘give press the
pleasure’ of seeing him in face mask
Amy Walker
and Joanna Walters
Fri 22 May
2020 09.56 BSTLast modified on Fri 22 May 2020 10.29 BST
Pictures of
Donald Trump wearing a face mask while on a visit in Michigan have emerged.
In a video
published by Sky News, the US president can be seen wearing a navy blue mask.
The images
emerged after a state attorney general called Trump a “petulant child” because
he allegedly refused to wear the covering during a tour of a plant belonging to
the Ford car company.
Surrounded
by Ford executives who were wearing masks, Trump told reporters he had put one
on earlier in the visit.
“I had one
on before. I wore one in the back area. I didn’t want to give the press the
pleasure of seeing it,” he said.
Trump
toured a plant belonging to Ford in Ypsilanti, Michigan, which has been recast
to produce ventilators and personal protective equipment to use in the
coronavirus crisis.
When asked
whether Trump was told it was acceptable not to wear a mask in the plant, the
Ford executive chairman, Bill Ford, said: “It’s up to him.” The company had
indicated prior to the visit that the president should wear a mask at the
factory.
The
Michigan state attorney general, Dana Nessel, had written to the White House
saying it was the law in Michigan that everyone should wear a mask in such a
setting – an indoor venue with many people in attendance.
“The
president is like a petulant child who refuses to follow the rules. This is not
a joke,” she told CNN, adding that Trump’s behaviour was “extremely
disappointing” and that thousands of people in Michigan had died from
coronavirus.
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