President Donald Trump Eschews Leadership Role, Flouts Michigan Mask Rule | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer talks with Rachel Maddow about her disappointment, though not surprise, that Donald Trump did not fulfill the responsibility of his leadership role to model behavior for the sake of public health and instead chose to flout the state's mask rule while touring a car factory where everyone was wearing a mask. Aired on 5/21/2020.
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President Donald Trump Eschews Leadership Role, Flouts Michigan Mask Rule | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

45 comments

  1. Trump: “Sure, I could have worn a mask, but as the patron saint of petulant man-babies around the world, I didn’t want to give the press the satisfaction of seeing me do the right thing for once. Phuck that!!!”

    1. Effectiveness of Surgical and Cotton Masks in Blocking SARS–CoV-2: A Controlled Comparison in 4 Patients: Both surgical and cotton masks seem to be ineffective in preventing the dissemination of SARS–CoV-2 from the coughs of patients with COVID-19 to the environment and external mask surface.
      https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/M20-1342
      A cluster randomised trial of cloth masks compared with medical masks in healthcare workers: The results caution against the use of cloth masks. Moisture retention, reuse of cloth masks and poor filtration may result in increased risk of infection.
      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4420971/#__ffn_sectitle
      Carbon Dioxide Rebreathing in Respiratory Protective Devices: Influence of Speech and Work Rate in Full-Face Masks: The results showed that phonic respiration and low work rates contributed to significantly higher levels of CO2 rebreathing.
      https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23514282/

    1. Phillip MJ Bacon… families divided and in cages, Muslim ban, Dreamers, abandoning the Kurds, “hard stop” for National Guard 1 day before they qualify for benefits…. seems quite accurate.
      A view from the outside world

  2. Insecure little Donnie is afraid wearing a mask in public will hurt his reputation, unlike the lies and crimes he has been impeached for.

    1. @Bud Fudlacker Impeached is still the accurate term. Only three Presidents have been impeached and none of those three were removed.

  3. This is typical of the republican mentality : wearing a mask is being weak. They do not care about science…they only care about their dear leader’s propaganda

    1. @Bud Fudlacker pud Wacker now you’re using the return question by trump cultist to evade the truth. Can’t you morons come up with thoughts of your own? You ain’t got the brains you were born with no use trying to educate you.

    2. @Bud Fudlacker same old subterfuge. Again can’t you think of anything new? Pud Wacker you are not answering the question. Physiology 101 isn’t working. Once a moron always a moron. Put the shoe on its your size wear it well.

    3. Republicans never have any respect for Americans lives. They, with their “Leader and king” Donald Trump pursue the objective of killing as more Americans as possible specially the elderly population in order to save millions of dollars been paid for their retirement and medical plans,etc

  4. 1:36 – “This is about public health, not one person’s or another. *This is about all of us”*
    _Donald J. Trump has left the chat_

  5. Trump acts like a twelve-year-old girl who refuses to wear her glasses out in public because she thinks they make her look ugly.

  6. Any woman who can withstand four crises at once — economic, medical, aquatic, and political — without losing her mind is presidential material.

  7. Trump: ‘I’ve been robbing people for over 50 years without a mask so why wear one now?” SAD!

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