Trump Says Masks Are ‘Good’ But Questions Requiring Them

  • President says he’d wear mask in ‘tight situation with people’
  • Trump’s surgeon general urged people to wear masks in public
Donald Trump sits during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House.Photographer: Erin Schaff/The New York Times
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President Donald Trump said he’d wear a mask if he were “in a tight situation with people” but that he’s not convinced they should be required even as coronavirus cases are spiking in parts of the U.S.

“I don’t know if you need mandatory,” Trump said Wednesday in a Fox Business Network interview. “I’m all for masks, I think masks are good.”