CORONAVIRUS/COVID-19/PRESS SECRETARY: “The President has always been consistent on this: that masks, according to the CDC, are recommended but not required. He has said that he would wear one in the case he couldn’t appropriately socially distance… He’s been consistent, even going back to March 31st, when he said then, ‘My feeling is, if people want to do it, there’s certainly no harm to it.'”
[Reporter: “But he hasn’t done it, Kayleigh. He hasn’t worn a mask. And so it’s sending — is it not mixed signals?”]
“The President wore a mask in May. The president wore a mask at Walter Reed, out of an abundance of caution. But as I’ve made clear from this podium, the President is the most tested man in America. He’s tested more than anyone, multiple times a day. And we believe that he’s acting appropriately.”
-Kayleigh McEnany, “Press Briefing by Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany,” whitehouse.gov July 21, 2020