Two and a half years into his term, President Donald Trump is solidifying his standing as the most germ-conscious man to ever lead the free world. A stash of Purell is even kept outside the Oval Office.
He’ll send a military doctor to help an aide caught coughing on Air Force One.And the first thing he often tells his body man upon entering the Beast after shaking countless hands at campaign events: “Give me the stuff” — an immediate squirt of Purell.
The president’s hatred of involuntary bacterial emissions burst into the open last month when his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, Indeed, many presidents have sought to avoid germs, using hand sanitizer and taking other precautions after shaking many hands over the course of a day. But Trump often takes the practice to an extreme.
Trump has a long history of germaphobia, which has sometimes hurt his business. Jack O’Donnell, a former president of the Trump Plaza casino in Atlantic City, N.J., recalled how Trump didn’t do well with some customers in the late 1980s — because he hated shaking their hands. During the campaign, then-spokeswoman Hope Hicks often offered Purell to Trump — and he made frequent use of it, according to a former campaign official.
“When you’ve been around this guy a lot, you know how it’s going to go. You’re in there and somebody will walk in and put their hand out and you’re just thinking to yourself, ‘Uh, that’s a mistake,’” a former campaign official said.from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on one aspect of his health: Washing his hands before eating, according to someone who has seen him do that multiple times.
And when someone coughs or sneezes in Trump’s presence on Air Force One, he’s been known to quickly assume the worst. “Are you sick?” he has asked, according to the person close to the White House.
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