President Donald Trump is scheduled to leave the confines of the White House to visit Arizona on May 5, where he will visit Honeywell Aerospace, which has added manufacturing capabilities to amp up production of personal protective equipment to help in the fight against COVID-19, White House officials confirmed Wednesday.

The White House is organizing the president’s trip to Arizona and no campaign-related events are scheduled during his trip to the state.

Trump’s announcement comes as Arizona’s stay-at-home order is extended until May 15 and as Republican Gov. Doug Ducey is detailing new timelines to allow certain businesses to reopen and mask-clad Arizonans to emerge from their homes.

"I think I’m going to Arizona next week and we look forward to that, and I’m going to, I hope, Ohio very soon and we’re going to start to move around," Trump said during a roundtable discussion Wednesday. "Hopefully in the not-too-distant-future, we’ll have some massive rallies and people will be sitting next to each other."

He said Arizona's trip was tied to "industry."

A White House official familiar with Trump's travel plans later confirmed the president would visit a Honeywell facility, where he will spotlight the company's investment in critical medical equipment production.

Trump has been holed up in the White House for weeks and has not left Washington since March 28, when he traveled to Norfolk, Virginia, for the departure of the naval hospital ship USNS Comfort, which was leaving for New York City to help combat the COVID-19 emergency there.

Trump’s return to Arizona represents an attempt by the administration to convey the reopening of the U.S.’s capsized economy while highlighting the businesses and companies that are helping to lead the way for Americans to get back to work.

A spokesman for the North Carolina-based company declined to comment about the president's visit.

In late March, the company announced it was adding manufacturing capabilities in Phoenix to produce N95 face masks in support of the government’s response to the novel coronavirus outbreak. The company said at the time the new mask production line in Phoenix will create more than 500 new jobs in Arizona.

Trump displayed the company’s efforts during a March 30 briefing in the White House Rose Garden, where Darius Adamczyk, the chairman and CEO of Honeywell announced bolstered production of the disposable masks at operations in Phoenix and Rhode Island.

“We, as Honeywell, we’re an industrial technology company,” Adamczyk said during the news conference. “And one of the businesses that we're in: We protect the industrial worker. But what we're doing today is we're repurposing a lot of that equipment to serve the healthcare worker.”

Ramped up production at its facilities in Phoenix are scheduled to begin by the middle of May.

Arizona was key to Trump’s victory in 2016 and Republicans view it as key to his success in 2020.

Trump's last visit to Arizona was on Feb. 19, when he rallied thousands of Republicans around his presidency and made his case for the election of Sen. Martha McSally, R-Ariz., in November. McSally is scheduled to return to Washington, D.C., Monday when the Senate reconvenes. The details of any McSally participation in the presidential visit remain unknown.

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When Trump touches down in Arizona, he will return to an Arizona where the economy is greatly reduced, but the state largely has avoided the mass deaths that strained health systems in New York.

While Trump arrives seeking to push for a broad reopening of the economy, Ducey has pledged a more cautious, data-driven approach that will take longer.

Ducey's stay-at-home-order is in effect until May 15. The governor said Wednesday during his regular COVID-19 briefing that the reopening of the state's economy will be gradual and phased-in.

"It will be turned up at the appropriate time in the coming weeks and months," he said.

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