One of Trump’s former housekeepers is terrified for domestic workers in the White House: “I’m really scared because he doesn’t care”
Photo: Davidoff Studios Photography/Getty Images Sandra Diaz was horrified when she saw COVID-infected Donald Trump walk into the White House without a mask last week. He had just returned from the hospital, almost certainly still a risk to others, in order to stage a kind of promotional video on the White House balcony. From her home in New Jersey, Diaz watched as Trump removed his face mask and gave a salute in front of the cameras, appearing to wince and struggle with his breathing.
Diaz, a native Costa Rican, worked at Bedminster from 2010 to 2014, cleaning Donald and Ivanka Trump’s homes on the property. She says the president, as an employer, was obsessive about his own cleanliness and hygiene. He would run his finger along surfaces to check for dust. He was “terrified of flies.” Diaz wore shoe coverings, latex gloves, and no makeup or perfume so that her presence would not be perceivable in the house.
Trump’s maskless stunt days after his COVID diagnosis were appalling and reckless. They’re also the apotheosis of a long, very public history of racist, sexist contempt for domestic workers, on whose labor he built his famous name. As owner of the Miss Universe competition, he once mockingly referred to Alicia Machado as “Miss Housekeeping,” solely because she was the contestant from Venezuela.
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