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×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×President on Thursday griped about the pressure he’s facing to increase the ability to test people for the , saying that testing might be “overrated” anyway.“We have the best testing in the world. Could be that testing is, frankly, overrated. ,” Trump said during a visit to Owens &amp; Minor, a medical supply company in Allentown, Pennsylvania, that distributes masks and other products.Advertisement“You know, they always say, ‘We want more, we want more,’ because they don’t want to give you credit. Then we do more, and they say, ‘We want more,’” he added.Trump did not wear a mask during his visit, and neither did his chief of staff, Mark Meadows. Everyone else did, according to the pool report from , HuffPost’s senior White House correspondent.Hundreds of Trump supporters lined the road along the president’s route to the plant on Thursday, and thousands appeared to be at the plant itself to greet him. Many were not wearing masks. AdvertisementEven though the federal government’s own health experts recommend wearing masks, Trump has refused to do so. “I don’t think that I’m going to be doing it,” he after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its guidelines to encourage mask usage.Trump has also reportedly said he would look ridiculous wearing a mask and that he worried it would send the wrong message, contradicting his (unscientific) predictions that the end of the pandemic is just around the corner.Thursday’s visit was one of Trump’s few trips out of Washington, D.C., since the coronavirus pandemic took hold of the country. In early May, he went to a mask factory in Arizona and also ― despite a sign near the factory floor that read, “Please wear your mask at all times.”Vice President Mike Pence also faced significant criticism when he visited the Mayo Clinic and ― even though it was the policy of the facility. AdvertisementTrump has been to see whether they have the coronavirus, even though medical experts and scientists said it’s key to overcoming the pandemic. In addition to the volume of tests, experts said it also matters which populations are getting tested and whether there is adequate contact tracing to track who has been infected.At the same time, he has boasted that the United States has “the best testing in the world” ― .But there is one place where testing is readily available: the White House. After several staffers who have had close contact with the president and vice president tested positive for COVID-19, tests are now readily available at the White House that (although the reliability of those results has been questioned). Staffers will also now have to most of the time, a policy that the president said he put into place himself. Trump, however, .AdvertisementA HuffPost Guide To Coronavirus Suggest a correctionNewsletter Sign UpHuffPost's top politics stories, straight to your inbox.Successfully Subscribed!Realness delivered to your inbox

×U.S. EditionPart of HuffPost Politics. ©2022 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved.×President on Thursday griped about the pressure he’s facing to increase the ability to test people for the , saying that testing might be “overrated” anyway.“We have the best testing in the world. Could be that testing is, frankly, overrated. ,” Trump said during a visit to Owens &amp; Minor, a medical supply company in Allentown, Pennsylvania, that distributes masks and other products.Advertisement“You know, they always say, ‘We want more, we want more,’ because they don’t want to give you credit. Then we do...

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