What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[Syt]

REPORTER: Can you explain why you decided not to wear a mask?

TRUMP: "Well I did wear -- I had one on before. I wore one in this back area. But I didn't want to give the press the pleasure of seeing it."

R: But the executives are wearing them.

TRUMP: "That's their choice."

https://t.co/WuNFNrYkxm

[Oexmelin]

TRUMP STRONG!

MASK WEAK!

TRUMP SMASH!

[Syt]

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-praises-henry-fords-good-bloodlines-at-michigan-ppe-event-2020-5?r=DE&IR=T

Trump praises Henry Ford's 'good bloodlines' while touring Michigan manufacturing plant

In an off-teleprompter riff Thursday, President Donald Trump praised Henry Ford's "blood lines" during a tour of a Ford manufacturing facility in Ypsilanti, Mich.

The visit was ostensibly about the company producing personal protective equipment (PPE) to help with the nation's coronavirus response.

In the middle of reading a line about the history of the company, Trump veered off topic during his introductory remarks.

"The company founded by a man named Henry Ford," Trump said. "Good blood lines, good blood lines, if you believe in that stuff, you've got good blood."

Trump has talked about genes and family heritage many times before, such as when he recalled his late uncle being an MIT professor and how that means he intuitively understands medicine during an early coronavirus briefing.

Some commenters online were quick to point out Ford's legacy of anti-Semitism.

During World War II, Ford's company collaborated with the Nazi regime by producing vehicles for them, along with General Motors.

Ford also published anti-Semitic writings, such as in 1918 when he ran a series of articles in four volumes on "The International Jew."

It is unclear whether Trump was aware of the history when he made the comments.

The White House did not immediately return a request for comment.

[The Brain]

I can't wait for Bloodlines 2.

[Zanza]

Yugely off the scale! Like no president before! 

[Sheilbh]

TRUMP STRONG!

MASK WEAK!

TRUMP SMASH!

Seems like he's not alone in this:

Bolsonaro too.

[Grey Fox]

Wearing a mask is surrendering to fear. Things these strong man will go to enormous length to not appear to be.

[Sheilbh]

It's still a huge difference between UK (and Northern Europe) and the rest of the world. Guidance here is still that masks aren't much use in general, but you should use them if you're in a crowded enclosed space like public transport. But in the workplace for example, unless you needed to wear masks/PPE before the crisis, it's unlikely you need to require employees to wear them now.

Of course, I'm a mask truther so I wear a mask whenever I leave the house  

[garbon]

TRUMP STRONG!

MASK WEAK!

TRUMP SMASH!

Seems like he's not alone in this:

Bolsonaro too.

Xi wore a mask in his Wuhan photo-ops.

[Razgovory]

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-praises-henry-fords-good-bloodlines-at-michigan-ppe-event-2020-5?r=DE&IR=T

Trump praises Henry Ford's 'good bloodlines' while touring Michigan manufacturing plant

In an off-teleprompter riff Thursday, President Donald Trump praised Henry Ford's "blood lines" during a tour of a Ford manufacturing facility in Ypsilanti, Mich.

The visit was ostensibly about the company producing personal protective equipment (PPE) to help with the nation's coronavirus response.

In the middle of reading a line about the history of the company, Trump veered off topic during his introductory remarks.

"The company founded by a man named Henry Ford," Trump said. "Good blood lines, good blood lines, if you believe in that stuff, you've got good blood."

Trump has talked about genes and family heritage many times before, such as when he recalled his late uncle being an MIT professor and how that means he intuitively understands medicine during an early coronavirus briefing.

Some commenters online were quick to point out Ford's legacy of anti-Semitism.

During World War II, Ford's company collaborated with the Nazi regime by producing vehicles for them, along with General Motors.

Ford also published anti-Semitic writings, such as in 1918 when he ran a series of articles in four volumes on "The International Jew."

It is unclear whether Trump was aware of the history when he made the comments.

The White House did not immediately return a request for comment.

Yeah, Trump is a eugenicist.

[grumbler]

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-praises-henry-fords-good-bloodlines-at-michigan-ppe-event-2020-5?r=DE&IR=T

Trump praises Henry Ford's 'good bloodlines' while touring Michigan manufacturing plant

In an off-teleprompter riff Thursday, President Donald Trump praised Henry Ford's "blood lines" during a tour of a Ford manufacturing facility in Ypsilanti, Mich.

The visit was ostensibly about the company producing personal protective equipment (PPE) to help with the nation's coronavirus response.

In the middle of reading a line about the history of the company, Trump veered off topic during his introductory remarks.

"The company founded by a man named Henry Ford," Trump said. "Good blood lines, good blood lines, if you believe in that stuff, you've got good blood."

Trump has talked about genes and family heritage many times before, such as when he recalled his late uncle being an MIT professor and how that means he intuitively understands medicine during an early coronavirus briefing.

Some commenters online were quick to point out Ford's legacy of anti-Semitism.

During World War II, Ford's company collaborated with the Nazi regime by producing vehicles for them, along with General Motors.

Ford also published anti-Semitic writings, such as in 1918 when he ran a series of articles in four volumes on "The International Jew."

It is unclear whether Trump was aware of the history when he made the comments.

The White House did not immediately return a request for comment.

To be fair, both Ford AG and GM/Opel were taken over by the German government in September 1939, so Ford didn't really "[collaborate] with the Nazi regime by producing vehicles for them."  Ford did express admiration for Hitler before the war, though, and Hitler congratulated Ford on the publishing of his antisemitic tracts.

[Sheilbh]

Yeah I mean Hitler cited Ford in Mein Kampf and had a huge portrait of Ford in his office in the 20s.

Edit: Also were they really taken over in 1939, not 1941? That seems provocative - but it sort of makes sense.

[Caliga]

It is unclear whether Trump was aware of the history when he made the comments.

Let me clear that up for anyone wondering... he wasn't aware.

[Razgovory]

Yeah I mean Hitler cited Ford in Mein Kampf and had a huge portrait of Ford in his office in the 20s.

Edit: Also were they really taken over in 1939, not 1941? That seems provocative - but it sort of makes sense.

I wonder how the factories got to Germany in the first place...

[Syt]

The nazis were indeed fans of Ford.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford

In July 1938, before the outbreak of war, the German consul at Cleveland gave Ford, on his 75th birthday, the award of the Grand Cross of the German Eagle, the highest medal Nazi Germany could bestow on a foreigner.[67] James D. Mooney, vice president of overseas operations for General Motors, received a similar medal, the Merit Cross of the German Eagle, First Class.