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Good Tuesday morning. I'm Jake Sherman and welcome to your political playbook audio briefing.

And I'm Anna Palmer. How can you say you support masks if the COVID-stricken president of the United States walks into the White House and takes off his mask publicly before filming a video without said mask, even if he was standing far

away from everyone. Despite the White House's public embracing of masks, there are lots of

people there who still don't believe they work. How can you say you trust scientists, and

then tell scientists their standards are too onerous?

How can you say COVID is not a big deal?

As your doctors say, you're not yet out of the woods less than a week after you get the virus.

It's tough to say don't let COVID dominate your lives as Donald Trump did in a video last night

when you've just left a hospital in which

you were pumped with experimental medicine that almost no one could get under the care of a team

of world-class physicians in a hospital wing that's for you and you alone. The New York Times is a piece

about how Trump's campaign saw an opportunity to recover from COVID and appear sympathetic to the

public, but Trump has already undermined that possibility. A little sidebar. We have some

personal news this morning. After four years at the helm of Playbook, and 11 years for Jake and nine

years for me at Politico, we've decided it's time for a new adventure. We'll pass the baton

at the end of the year. When we took over in July 2016, we knew we were taking over a unique

platform, but we didn't quite understand how special it was. Playbookers hail from all over the

planet, come from all walks of life, and have been waking up every morning, rain or shine,

holiday, weekday, or weekend, to the Politico Playbook for 13 years. We're really proud what we've been able to do here.

Playbook readership has tripled since 2016. We've created a popular audio briefing,

afternoon edition, hosted events across the country, and in D.C. with governors, the vice

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