President Donald Trump’s refusal to set an example by wearing a face covering, despite growing evidence that it may be one of the most effective ways to slow America’s increasingly disastrous coronavirus pandemic, was always a political statement.3 https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/02/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-masks-politics-joe-biden-election-2020/index.html

On Wednesday, he downplayed the edict and mused that maybe blanket testing wasn’t necessary as states move to reopen. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/29/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus-messaging/index.html