Trump rips off mask on return to White House, Fauci urges US to put it on

With the virus still raging in America, Fauci is at pains to explain to Americans that public health guidelines are not the "enemy"

In a remarkable split screen moment that will serve as an eerie reminder of America's chaotic response to the coronavirus pandemic, the country's top infectious diseases doctor Anthony Fauci issued yet another urgent plea for Americans to mask up, at precisely the same time Monday when US president Donald Trump, now a COVID-19 patient, climbed up the steps to the White House South Portico balcony, ripped off his mask, stuffed it in his pocket and struck a double thumbs-up pose for the photographers assembled below.

Trump, still contagious and "not out of the woods", according to his medical team, walked