#shorts On 9/6/2023, a reporter asked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, “And to go back to the medal ceremony from yesterday. You said, today, to my colleague, that “the President, in every way that we could, followed the CDC guidelines.” And you made a point to say that beforehand, when he was meeting with Captain Taylor, he was masked so he could have that time with him. Then why not wear a mask when he was putting the medal around his neck and he was so close to him like that? Was that an oversight by the President?

KJP: What I can —
Reporter: Was he supposed to there?

KJP: What I can tell you is that the President took off his mask to deliver incredibly powerful remarks about the captain. That was done, certainly, on — I think, on purpose — right? … afterwards, as we planned — as it was planned, we made sure that when the program was paused, that he was able to leave right after. We wanted to make sure there was a short amount of time that the President was there. And so, that’s what you saw.

Reporter: And you’ve emphas- — emphasized the pause and that he got out of the room to minimize that. But yesterday, you had said that he would remove his mask when “sufficiently distanced from others indoors.” That was not very sufficiently distanced when he was next to Taylor yesterday.

other clips of this published longer video is here: https://youtu.be/yFhnzz8ShvE
Q: why not wear a mask when he was putting the medal around his neck? A: incredibly powerful remarks