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.”
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”
What was it called?
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
I miss WYE, even if it didn’t really give me much in the way of positivity
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.
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
There’s also Very Stupid by Negativland. I think of it often these days.