President Donald Trump flew by helicopter to Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre in far-off Washington to meet injured service members and health care providers caring for Covid-19 patients. As he left the White House, he told reporters: “When you’re in a hospital, especially … I think it’s a great thing to wear a mask.”
President Donald Trump wore a mask over a visit to a military hospital on Saturday, the first time the president has been seen in public with the type of facemask cover suggested by health officials as a precaution against distribution or spreading the coronavirus.