Grand Canyon Times

President Donald Trump has resumed travel to highlight stories of Americans who have benefited from government assistance and those who have shown strength during COVID-19.

“I've been at the White House now for many months, and I'd like to get out,” Trump said Wednesday, according to ABC News.

Over an eight-week period, Trump has left Washington two times. 

On March 28, he visited Norfolk, Virginia to see the USNS Comfort hospital ship head to New York City to help with coronavirus cases and on Friday, he flew by helicopter to Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland. 

“We’re going to start to move around,” Trump said.

Trump began his travels today to tour a Honeywell plant in Phoenix, Arizona that hired 500 employees to manufacture N95 masks.

“[Honeywell] stepped up like nobody has ever seen before,” Trump said Wednesday during a White House meeting on reopening the states. “These companies – General Motors and Ford in another way and GE — they’ve stepped up.”

Honeywell Chairman and CEO Darius Adamczyk announced last month at a White House manufacturers meeting that the company would produce personal protective equipment and hand sanitizer for health care workers at its Phoenix, Michigan, Rhode Island and Germany facilities.

“We have moved quickly to expand our production capacity for N95 masks globally and are pleased to announce our second new U.S. manufacturing line to supply the Strategic National Stockpile,” Adamczyk said in a company statement.

On Wednesday, Gov. Doug Ducey extended the state’s stay-at-home order with new guidelines for businesses and customers to May 15.

“The president is always welcome in Arizona,” Ducey said in a press conference Wednesday. “We don’t set the White House travel schedule. I am asking people to stay home, stay healthy and stay connected.”

Trump said Thursday he would consider wearing a mask during his travel dependent on the circumstance.

“I would have to look at the climate. I'd have no problem wearing a mask. I don't know, I'm supposed to make a speech. I just don't know — can I speak in a mask? You're going to have to tell me if that's politically correct," Trump said. “Depending on the conditions, I would have no problem wearing a mask.”

Aside from his visits to Arizona and potentially Ohio, Trump hopes to restart campaign rallies soon.

“And hopefully, in the not-too-distant future, we’ll have some massive rallies and people will be sitting next to each other. I can't imagine a rally where you have every fourth seat full, every six seats are empty for every one that you have full," Trump said. "I hope that we are going to be able to do some good old-fashioned 25,000-person rallies where everyone is going wild because they love our country.”