The Daily Beast reports:
Ex-aide Cassidy Hutchinson claimed the president snapped during the pandemic when she told him his classic orange shade got all over the straps of his white face mask.
When he looked at the straps of his mask, he saw they were covered in bronzer.” Trump sharply responded, “Why did no one else tell me that” and swore “I’m not wearing this thing.”
“The press would criticize him for not wearing a mask not knowing that the depth of his vanity had caused him to reject masks – and then millions of his fans followed suit,” Hutchinson wrote.
The Guardian reports:
Donald Trump and his chief of staff Mark Meadows joked about the then US president having Covid on Air Force One after the first debate with Joe Biden in 2020 – an event at which Trump was not tested but three days before which, Meadows later confessed, Trump had indeed tested positive.
On the flight, on 29 September 2020, Trump speculated about his health, saying he thought his voice had sounded “a little bit off” at a rally in Duluth, Minnesota. But he also said he did not want the media to “accuse me of something ridiculous, like having Covid”. Meadows “laughed and promised him that we would handle it if it happened”.
Donald Trump refused to wear a mask during the height of the pandemic because it messed up his makeup, according to former WH Aide Cassidy Hutchinson.
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