CDC/CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The CDC is recommending that Americans wear a basic cloth or a fabric mask that can be either purchased online or simply made at home… So with the masks, it’s going to be, really, a voluntary thing. You can do it. You don’t have to do it. I’m choosing not to do it, but some people may want to do it, and that’s okay. It may be good. Probably will. They’re making a recommendation. It’s only a recommendation. It’s voluntary.”
-Donald Trump, “Remarks by President Trump, Vice President Pence, and Members of the Coronavirus Task Force in Press Briefing,” whitehouse.gov, Apr. 3, 2020