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First Photo of Trump Wearing Protective Face Mask Emerges on Web, Despite His Reluctance

© REUTERS / LEAH MILLISU.S. President Donald Trump holds a protective face mask with a presidential seal on it that he said he had been wearing earlier in his tour at the Ford Rawsonville Components Plant that is manufacturing ventilators, masks and other medical supplies during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Ypsilanti, Michigan, U.S., May 21, 2020
U.S. President Donald Trump holds a protective face mask with a presidential seal on it that he said he had been wearing earlier in his tour at the Ford Rawsonville Components Plant that is manufacturing ventilators, masks and other medical supplies during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Ypsilanti, Michigan, U.S., May 21, 2020 - Sputnik International
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US President Donald Trump is notoriously skeptical of wearing a face mask as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 coronavirus and has never worn one in public, claiming that it affects his perception by others as a leader.

During a tour of a Ford manufacturing plant in Michigan that had been reconditioned to manufacture desperately needed ventilators for COVID-19 patients, Trump admitted to having worn a face mask, but demanded that he not be photographed wearing it. 

"I wore one in this back area but I didn't want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it", he told reporters.

Someone nonetheless gained that pleasure, apparently taking a picture without the president's knowledge. The first photographic evidence that POTUS wore a mask immediately caused Twitterati to offer an opinion, with many pondering what will happen when Trump sees the photo he was so reluctant to have.

Many people liked Trump's epidemiologically required accessoire.

​Some noticed a few lovely cinematic parallels in the image.

​It turned out that not everyone agrees with Trump's fear that the mask would affect his image as a leader.

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