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(WWJ) President Donald Trump is holding a rally for supporters of his reelection bid in Saginaw tomorrow and Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer isn't happy about it, according to WWJ's Lansing Bureau Chief Tim Skubick.
"She's saying that he's probably not going to mask up, we're going to have a crowd that won't be masking up and (saying) 'This is very distressing,' Skubick reported.
What Whitmer told CNN's Anderson Cooper in an interview, exactly, was that she would "love to have a leader who encouraged people to wear masks and do the right thing."
She has made it very clear that in her view Trump isn't that leader.
She added that her distress about Joe Biden's visit today is as zero because he will wear a mask and encourage participants to do the same. On Biden's visit, she said, ""I know that they are scrupulously following the science ... They want to keep their supporters and the general public safe."
President Donald Trump has long used masks as a political hot potato. Just yesterday, he urged a reporter at a press conference to take his off. In the past, he has accused reporters of wearing them to be "politically correct."
"You're going to have to take that off please," the president, who wasn't wearing a mask, told the reporter from Reuters on Tuesday.
Surrounded by fellow reporters, Mason responded that he'll just "speak a lot louder."
"Well, if you don't take it off, you're very muffled," Trump insisted, "so if you take it off, it'd be a lot easier."
Meanwhile, Whitmer has been on an ongoing quest to get Michiganders to wear masks in public and follow guidelines regarding social distancing and limiting themselves to small gatherings to halt the spread of coronavirus.
She and Trump have sparred in the past, most notably when she complained about the lack of organized federal response to COVID-19 and Trump called her "that woman from Michigan."
The president is descending on airport hangar near MBS International Airport in Freeland, which serves Midland, Bay City and Saginaw, at 7 p.m. on Thursday while Biden's is visiting Warren at 1:15 p.m. Wednesday. Details have not yet been announced other than to say it will be livestreamed.