https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/05/22/trump-ford-mask-coronavirus/ President Trump lashed out at Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel (D) in a pair of late-night tweets Thursday after she called him “a petulant child” following hisrefusal to wear a face mask at all timesduring his visit to a Ford manufacturing plant in the state earlier that day. “The president is like a petulant child who refuses to follow the rules,” Nessel said in a Thursday evening appearance on CNN. “This is no joke.” Nessel, whowrote a strongly worded letterto Trump ahead of his visit telling him that he had a “legal” and “moral responsibility” to wear a mask, unleashed on the president in aninterviewwith CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. Nessel slammed Trump for sending a “terrible message” and said that his unwillingness to adhere to Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’sexecutive orderand Ford’s company policy mandating face coverings showed that he does not care about anyone but himself. “He is a ridiculous person and I am ashamed to have him be president of the United States of America,” she said. “I hope that the voters of Michigan will remember this when November comes. That he didn’t care enough about their safety, he didn’t care about their welfare, he didn’t respect them enough just to engage in the very simple task, the painless task, the easy task of wearing a mask when he was provided one.” She continued: “I hope that we’ll have a new president soon enough who does respect people more than this president does.” The state’s chief law enforcement official also doubled down on her previous threat to take action against any company or facility in Michigan that allows Trump inside without a mask, telling Blitzer that her office is “going to have to have a very serious conversation with Ford in the event that they permitted the president to be in publicly enclosed places in violation of the order.” “The Wacky Do Nothing Attorney General of Michigan, Dana Nessel, is viciously threatening Ford Motor Company for the fact that I inspected a Ventilator plant without a mask,” the presidenttweetedshortly after 11 p.m. “Not their fault, & I did put on a mask. No wonder many auto companies left Michigan, until I came along!” Less than five minutes later, Trump fired offanother attackaimed at the “Do nothing A.G. of the Great State of Michigan.” Nessel, he wrote, “should not be taking her anger and stupidity out on Ford Motor — they might get upset with you and leave the state, like so many other companies have — until I came along and brought business back to Michigan.” Ford did not respond to a request for comment from The Washington Post early Friday. But in a statement to reporters after Trump’s visit, the company said that executive chairman Bill Ford had “encouraged” the president to wear a face covering on his tour inside the Detroit-area factory that has been repurposed to produce ventilators and masks. “He wore a mask during a private viewing of three Ford GTs from over the years,” the company’s statement said. “The President later removed the mask for the remainder of the visit.” Trump said as much to reporters Thursday after he was questioned about his decision to go without a mask. “I had one on before,” he said, standing barefaced in front of several men wearing masks and a large sign advertising the facility’s mask-making efforts. “But I didn’t want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it." Trump went on to add that he was “given a choice” about donning a face covering. “I had one on in an area where they preferred it, so I put it on and it was very nice. But they said, ‘Not necessary here,’ ” he said, later showing off a navy blue mask with a presidential seal to the cameras. When asked to confirm Trump’s comments, Bill Ford only shrugged and responded, “It’s up to him.” Trump’s disregard for the facility’s policy and Whitmer’s executive order, which requires that face coverings be worn in all enclosed public spaces, sparked widespread backlash Thursday, most notably from Nessel. Ahead of Trump’s visit, Nessel had said that the president would be asked not to come back to Michigan if he didn’t follow the state’s mask mandate. In her interview with Blitzer, Nessel said Thursday’s events were “extremely disappointing and yet totally predictable,” likely referring to past instances in which Trump has not respected mask policies — even thoseimplemented by the White House. Still, Nessel stressed that Trump’s actions are “very, very concerning.” “He’s conveying the worst possible message to people who cannot afford to be on the receiving end of terrible misinformation,” she said, noting that the virus has nowkilled more than 93,000 peoplenationwide. In Michigan alone, there are about 53,500 confirmed cases and more than 5,100 deaths, according to most recent figures. By flouting mask requirements, Nessel said Trump is essentially telling people, “I don’t care about you. … I don’t care about anyone but myself.”
Trump's like someone's who's contracted AIDS and goes around spreading it by sleeping around unprotected w/o disclosing it to their partners.