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In her upcoming memoir, "Enough," former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson details what it was like to work in close proximity to the former president during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Recounting a visit to the Honeywell mask-making factory in Phoenix, Arizona, in May 2020 — after which Trump was criticized for, ironically, not wearing one — Hutchinson claims that his excuse that he "did not wear it after consulting the company chief executive," was not entirely accurate.

According to The Guardian's coverage, Hutchinson writes that Trump "decided on a white mask," then asked staffers for their thoughts on the matter.

"I slowly shook my head," she writes. "The president pulled the mask off and asked why I thought he should not wear it.

"I pointed at the straps of the N95 I was holding. When he looked at the straps of his mask, he saw they were covered in bronzer."

"Why did no one else tell me that," he snapped. "I'm not wearing this thing."

"The press would criticize him for not wearing a mask," Hutchinson furthers, "not knowing that the depth of his vanity had caused him to reject masks – and then millions of his fans followed suit."

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[–] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 154 points 2 years ago (1 children)

She should have said this shit 3 years ago.

Fuck her and her attempts to profit off this shit after the fact.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago

How many deaths are on her hands?

[–] stopthatgirl7@kbin.social 146 points 2 years ago (4 children)

We live in the stupidest timeline.

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Everyday, I’m reminded of the lyrics to the theme song of a podcast I adored while it was still running.

“Everything is so dumb, everything is so dumb, and it’s gonna get dumber”

[–] Kalothar@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Worst Year Ever. News podcast for 2020 and a bit beyond hosted by Behind the Bastards host Robert Evans and Some More News hosts Cody Johnston and Katy Stoll

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've just recently got into BTB and it's kind of my first dive into listening to podcasts and I love it, WYE sounds like it would have been right up my alley because I loved all those people when they were on Cracked.

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It’s very focused on current events but there are still some banger episodes in there, the Cracked Alum are national treasures

Edit: it might have originally been on BtB but Robert had both Katy and Cody on to read his book The War on Everyone which if you like the rest of his work is gonna be something you want to listen to

[–] iamtrashman1312@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I miss WYE, even if it didn't really give me much in the way of positivity

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

There's also Very Stupid by Negativland. I think of it often these days.

[–] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

You say that now. Just wait till this necrotic ass gets re-elected

[–] UsernameIsTooLon@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

We live in the current smartest timeline. It's so smart, it allows us to see all the dumb through a portable slab of glass

[–] ZeroCool@feddit.ch 51 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

"The press would criticize him for not wearing a mask," Hutchinson furthers, "not knowing that the depth of his vanity had caused him to reject masks – and then millions of his fans followed suit."

Well I guess it’s kind of neat to confirm it but plenty of us knew from the start that was why he wasn’t wearing a mask. It wasn’t exactly a mystery that it was vanity and almost certainly related to his clown makeup.

[–] jonne 22 points 2 years ago

I think a lot of the 'bombshells' that are coming out in various books and indictments is stuff that was called by basically anyone with common sense. The thing you initially suspected is always true.

[–] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well this is the first time I heard it. I just thought it was art of his 4d chess moves.

[–] z500@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

Turns out it was 1D checkers all along. Shocker.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 48 points 2 years ago

This is their masculine god.

[–] ghostBones@lemmy.world 44 points 2 years ago

This is such an incredibly stupid timeline. If somebody had told that insolent toddler that he looked like a badass in a black mask, hundreds of thousands of people would not have died.

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] FoundTheVegan@kbin.social 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Both unbelievable, and on the same note tragically believable. I don't doubt for a second this is the exact reason he railed against mask mandates. Which lead to all the anti Vax BS, which lead to countless needless deaths.

Because he refused to not be orange.

[–] paddirn@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago

Orange is the new Black Death

[–] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 22 points 2 years ago

She's a scumbag just like everyone else in the party.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.one 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Could have just got orange masks...

[–] deaconblue@kbin.social 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

He doesn't just roll in Cheetos dust?

[–] macrocephalic@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Yes, but the staff have to call it bronzer as per their employment contract.

[–] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 12 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

My thought is - people were actually telling him how to maintain his cheese turd appearance?

[–] neptune@dmv.social 8 points 2 years ago

This was all heavily surmised on reddit, fark, etc.

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago

She’s a fucking disgusting traitor parasite. Like all republicans.

[–] luckyhunter@lemmy.world -1 points 2 years ago

Hey, the mask was at least effective at doing something!