It's Brian Lehrer, and this is my daily politics podcast from WNYC Studios.

It's Monday, May 11th.

There's coronavirus in the White House, in case you haven't heard that yet.

Vice President Pence's press secretary and President

Trump's valet have both tested positive because of contact that people at the top had with

Pence Press Secretary, Katie Miller, wife of Trump advisor Stephen Miller, in case you didn't know

that. The head of the CDC and the head of the FDA and Dr. Anthony Fauci and the vice president himself

are all now doing varying degrees of quarantine.

You've seen on TV how they don't socially distance themselves at press briefings, right?

And don't wear masks.

Remember the president last month on his decision not to wear a mask on the very day

the CDC advised that most Americans do so? Well, I just don't want to wear one myself. It's a recommendation.

They recommend it. I'm feeling good. I just don't want to be doing. I don't know, somehow sitting in the Oval Office

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. Somehow, I don't see it for myself.

I don't know. You hear that tone? I don't know. Somehow I don't see it for myself. So

masks, I guess, are for the little people. He makes it sound like, and weak people, right?

Not a manly man like him who meets with kings and dictators. He and his unused masks may have to

quarantine too. We will see. Maybe then he'll have time to catch up on the Amad Arbery case.

President Trump, known for good people on both sides after Charlottesville and white supremacy is not

a rising threat after the Christ Church New Zealand massacre.

Remember that?

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