President Trump on Monday said he was the person who directed White House staff to wear masks at all times after two officials contracted the…
President Trump on Monday said he was the person who directed White House staff to wear masks at all times after two officials contracted the coronavirus and one top aide admitted he was scared to go to work.
At a briefing in the Rose Garden, the president said the order came from him but fended off questions from reporters when they suggested the West Wing was not a safe place to work.
“I don’t think the system broke down at all,” Trump said after one of his personal valets and the top spokeswoman for Vice President Mike Pence both tested positive for COVID-19 last week.
The president said there were many people who worked in the cramped West Wing quarters and suggested the fact that only two people became infected was a good result.
“Everybody coming into the president’s office gets tested, and I felt no vulnerability whatsoever,” he said.
