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The president of the United States, Donald Trump, converted his visit to a Ford plant that produces respirators in a campaign act in one of the states on which his re-election depends in November, and rejected again to put the mask on in public although it was mandatory at the factory.

The visit to that factory in Michigan was Trump's third trip to a key state in the November elections since the start of the pandemic, which forced the president to suspend the mass rallies that he gave regularly and that he wants to resume "soon", as assured this Thursday.

Meanwhile, the president has taken advantage of official visits to the key states of Arizona, Pennsylvania and now Michigan, paid for with public funds, to organize acts with a tone similar to that of his rallies and enlivened by the same songs that he uses in those electoral acts.

"I don't know how the hell the unions are not supporting Trump instead of the Democrat on duty. A Democrat who doesn't even know where he is," Trump said during his speech at the Ford factory in Ypsilanti (Michigan), referring to the virtual Democratic candidate for the election, former Vice President Joe Biden.

The president skipped the speech prepared by his advisers several times to criticize his rival in the 2016 elections, Hillary Clinton and affirm that "it is very important that he win the elections a second time".

Trump even generated criticism on social networks for his veiled praise to the founder of the automobile, Henry Ford, known for his anti-Semitism and for having allegedly contributed to the development of Nazism, and of whom the president said: "Good lineage. If you believe in these things, they have good blood. "

The president, who has never worn a face mask in public, once again avoided wearing it in front of the cameras during his visit to the Ford factory, despite both the president of the automobile, Bill Ford, and the Michigan attorney general, Democrat Dana Nessel, asked to do it. "He did not want to give the press the pleasure of seeing me" with the mask, Trump said when journalists asked him why he was not wearing it.

The president assured that he had worn the mask during part of his tour of the factory, and even showed it to the press and joked that "it suits him" : a dark blue chinstrap with the official seal of the President of the United States.

However, Trump again prevented any camera from capturing him with a mask, something he has justified considering that "it is not necessary" since they test him for COVID-19 practically daily, despite the fact that his own government recommends taking them in any public place.

Following the visit, Ford released a statement explaining that the company's president "encouraged President Trump to wear a face mask when he arrived, and (Trump) wore it during his private tour" by the plant, but "then he took it off. "

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