Trump claims to wear mask during Ford plant tour

President Donald Trump says he wore a mask and goggles out of view of reporters while he was touring a Ford plant in Michigan.

"I did wear, had one on before," said Trump.

"I wore one in this back area, but I didn't want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it. But no, where I had it in the back area, I did put a mask on.

The president did not wear a face covering Thursday at the Ypsilanti plant despite a warning from the state’s top law enforcement officer that a refusal to do so might lead to a ban on Trump's return.

Trump visited the plant outside Detroit, to tour a Ford Motor Co. factory that had been repurposed to manufacture ventilators, the medical breathing machines governors begged for during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.