 Former President Donald Trump reportedly refused to wear a face mask during the coronavirus pandemic when he saw it smudged his face bronzer. Trump decided to wear a white mask for a visit to a Honeywell factory in May 2020 and asked his staffers to weigh in, according to Cassidy Hutchinson, ex-aide to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows. 'I slowly shook my head,' wrote Hutchinson in her forthcoming memoir Enough, according to the New York Post. 'The president pulled the mask off and asked why I thought he should not wear it.' Ex-President Donald Trump reportedly wouldn't wear a face mask at the height of the coronavirus pandemic when he saw it smudged with his bronzer (Picture: Getty Images) Hutchinson said she showed Trump the straps of her face mask and that he then checked his own and realized 'they were covered in bronzer'. 'Why did no one else tell me that?' said Trump, according to the former aide. 'I'm not wearing this thing.' Trump proceeded to receive approval from the 'head of Honeywell' not to wear a mask at the event, while also claiming he wore one 'for a period of time'. 'The press would criticize him for not wearing a mask, not knowing that the depths of his vanity had caused him to reject masks,' Hutchinson wrote. 'And then millions of his fans followed suit.' Cassidy Hutchinson, a top former aide to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, has a memoir coming out on Tuesday (Picture: Getty Images) Hutchinson, 27, was a star witness in hearings by a House select committee that investigated the January 6 Capitol riot. She shared an account of Trump attacking security detail who refused to bring him to the Capitol as the insurrection unfolded. Enough, to be published this Tuesday, details Hutchinson's journey from working for Trump to turning on him. In another excerpt obtained by The Guardian earlier this week, Hutchin){kind=link}
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Former President Donald Trump reportedly refused to wear a face mask during the coronavirus pandemic when he saw it smudged his face bronzer.
Trump decided to wear a white mask for a visit to a Honeywell factory in May 2020 and asked his staffers to weigh in, according to Cassidy Hutchinson, ex-aide to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows.
‘I slowly shook my head,’ wrote Hutchinson in her forthcoming memoir Enough, according to the New York Post.
‘The president pulled the mask off and asked why I thought he should not wear it.’