Donald Trump announces the CDC is telling EVERYBODY to wear masks or face coverings 'voluntarily' but says 'I don't think I'm going to be doing that' - then Melania tweets plea to take 'covering seriously'

President Trump announced at his Friday press briefing that the Centers for Disease Control was now recommending that Americans wear non-medical cloth masks - but pressed that it wasn't a mandate. 
'So it's voluntary, you don't have to be doing it,' the president said from the briefing room podium. 'This is voluntary, I don't think I'm going to be doing it.' 
Minutes later, first lady Melania Trump tweeted that Americans should take mask-wearing seriously.
'As the weekend approaches I ask that everyone take social distancing & wearing a mask/face covering seriously,' she tweeted from her FLOTUS account. '#COVID19 is a virus that can spread to anyone - we can stop this together.'   
But the president suggsted it might make him look foolish as he communicated with world leaders.  
'I'm feeling good,' Trump said when asked why he wouldn't sport face-wear. 'Somehow sitting in the Oval Office, sitting behind that beautiful Resolute Desk, the great Resolute Desk, I think wearing a face mask as I greet presidents, prime ministers, dictators, kings, queens, I don't know, I just don't see it for myself,' Trump said.  
For days, top experts, including members of Trump's coronavirus taskforce said they were debating whether or not to put out a mask recommendation. 
President Trump said the CDC would put out a recommendation that Americans wear masks - but said it was voluntary and he would not be doing it
President Trump said the CDC would put out a recommendation that Americans wear masks - but said it was voluntary and he would not be doing it 
The president urged Americans not to wear medical-grade masks and instead could make masks from fabric at home
The president urged Americans not to wear medical-grade masks and instead could make masks from fabric at home 
Trump says he will not wear a face mask even though CDC advises it
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Minutes after Trump said he would not personally be wearing a mask, first lady Melania Trump sent out a tweet saying that Americans should take the CDC recommendations seriously
Minutes after Trump said he would not personally be wearing a mask, first lady Melania Trump sent out a tweet saying that Americans should take the CDC recommendations seriously 
The first lady sent a Friday evening tweet telling Americans to 'take social distancing & wearing a mask/face covering seriously'
The first lady sent a Friday evening tweet telling Americans to 'take social distancing & wearing a mask/face covering seriously' 
One concern is that Americans not working in the medical field would scoop up masks needed to protect doctors, nurses, first responders and others on the front lines. 
For days, Trump suggested that Americans could simply wear scarves to get by. 
But on Friday he said the CDC was putting out the new recommendation for masks. 
'From recent studies we know that transmissions from individuals without symptoms is playing a more signifcant role in the spread of the virus than previously understood, so you don't seem to have symptoms and it still gets transferred,' the president explained. 
'In light of these studies the CDC is advising the sue of non-medical cloth face covering as an additional voluntary public health measure,' he said. 
The president suggested cloth or fabric masks that could be ordered online or made at home. 
They should also be able to be washed. 
'I want to emphasize that the CDC is not recommending the use of medical grade or surgical grade masks and we want that to be used for our great medical people that are working so hard and doing some job,' the president said. 
Trump also said that mask-wearing did not replace the social distancing guidelines the government already put out, including standing six feet apart and 'practicing hand hygiene' as the president put it. 
'Again, we're all going to come back together here,' he assured the American people.  
But then reiterated he wouldn't be caught wearing a mask. 
'I'm choosing not to do it,' the president said. 
Surgeon General Jerome Adams later took the podium and expressed that it's a nice thing to do. 
'Remember this is all about me protecting you and you protecting me,' Adams said.  'And if people voluntarily choose to wear a face covering they're wearing it to protect their neighbors from getting coronavirus because they could have asymptomatic spread.' 
And Robert Redfield, the CDC director, also gave his take when Trump was asked by another reporter why not set an example and wear a mask.   
'So really the purpose here is first and foremost to embrace the social distancing. That's the No. 1. That's the powerful weapon. And, you know, this virus has a great weakness, it can't justmp from one person to another if it's gotta swim more than six feet,' Redfield began. 
'We know that a face barrier can actually interrupt the number of virus particles that can go from one person to another,' the CDC explained.   
Trump was tested for the virus for a second time on Thursday - this time with the quicker 15-minute test. Participants in White House meetings are also now getting this test. 
'I was just tested also, so I assume I don't have the virus so I don't have to worry about spreading it,' the president also said. 
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