Cassidy Hutchinson's new book Enough, published on Tuesday, recalls a trip Donald Trump made to the Honeywell mask production facility in Phoenix, Arizona May 5, 2020, as the pandemic was spreading across the world.
Trump was going to wear an N95 mask and tried on several asking his staff to tell him which looked the best.
"He was not thrilled that staff urged him to wear a mask, believing it would make him look weak and afraid of the virus," Hutchinson writes. "He decided on a white mask and strapped it to his face before asking each staffer whether or not he should wear it in front of the press pool."
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She explained she wasn't expecting Trump to ask what she thought. He made a "thumbs-up/thumbs-down gesture."
Hutchinson shook her head not to, despite Mark Meadows glaring at her.
"The president pulled the mask off and asked why I thought he should not wear it," she continues. "I pointed at the straps of the N95 I was holding. When he looked at the straps of his mask, he saw that they were covered in bronzer."
“Why did no one else tell me that,” he snapped. “I’m not wearing this thing.”
Instead, Trump put on safety goggles for the tour.
"The press would criticize him for not wearing a mask, not knowing that the depth of his vanity had caused him to reject masks—and then millions of his fans followed suit," the book continues.
She writes that she was worried Trump might be angry at her for pointing it out.
"He always checks himself in a mirror his valet carries before starting any public event, so he would have probably seen the bronzer-smeared mask before stepping in front of the cameras," she confesses.
Raw Story has full coverage of Hutchinson's book Enough here.
