Not even Donald Trump’s ego was sturdy sufficient to get him to put on a masks throughout the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic, based on one former staffer.
Throughout Thursday’s episode of “The View,” co-host and former White Home official Alyssa Farah Griffin recounted how she tried unsuccessfully to make use of flattery to get Trump to placed on a protecting face overlaying.
“I remember telling him he looked cool in the mask,” Farah Griffin advised the day’s visitor, Dr. Anthony Fauci.
“I remember, yeah!” replied Fauci, who was the director of the Nationwide Institute of Allergy and Infectious Illnesses throughout the Trump presidency.
“I thought that might appeal to him, and he might be like, ‘OK, fine, I’ll wear it,’” Farah Griffin stated. “Didn’t work.”
“Nice try, Alyssa,” Fauci remarked.
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Trump often refused to masks up throughout the early components of the pandemic, regardless of his personal well being officers endorsing masks as a simple methodology to scale back the chance of publicity to the virus.
“I’m choosing not to do it,” the forty fifth president was quoted as saying in April 2020.
“It’s a recommendation, they recommend it,” he added. “I just don’t want to wear one myself.”
After bristling on the concept of masks for months, Trump was hospitalized with the coronavirus in October 2020, simply days after his first presidential debate with Joe Biden.
Whereas on “The View,” Fauci remembered Trump’s stance on masking as a “missed opportunity” to advertise easy public well being protocol to his leagues of supporters.
“He has millions and millions of followers who are very loyal to him,” the physician stated. “All he had to do was say, ‘The CDC is recommending masks, we know it’s going to save lives, do it.’”
