Trump tees up controversy as he plays golf in a pandemic‘Incalculable loss’: paper covers front page with death noticesCoronavirus – latest global updatesGet a fresh perspective on America – sign up to our First Thing newsletter 2.51pm BST Florida senator, and former governor, Rick Scott is up on CNN’s State of the Union, struggling to explain why he thinks Floridians should wear masks and socially distance while the state reopens and beaches fill over Memorial Day weekend, but doesn’t think there should be official mandates to do so.“I trust the American public to make good decisions,” Scott says. But he thinks “if you’re close to somebody you oughta wear a mask. We have to social distance safely … we have to do it.” Related: Race, wealth and public spaces: US beaches are a new flashpoint of the lockdown 2.28pm BST White House public health adviser Dr Deborah Birx is appearing on Fox News Sunday and according to Fox News Sunday, she says: “President Trump does wear a mask when he is unable to social distance from others.” Trump’s reluctance to wear a mask in public or apparently in private has become a running theme of the coronavirus pandemic, particularly since cases were confirmed in the White House, close to the president himself. This week, at a Ford plant in Michigan, Trump was pictured wearing one. Related: North Dakota governor on brink of tears as he decries ‘mask shaming’ Continue reading…
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