"COVIDIOT 45 never bothered even responding to this manufacturer because Trump was still refusing to acknowledge the need for masks at all."
Undeniably true, but incomplete.
You'll remember that Flump the Plump Grump was also seizing shipments of supplies (even when already paid for) and giving (or more likely, selling) them to favored GOP donors to sell through rapidly established companies. (This is just one of many such accounts, and has a lesser focus on the destination of such materials.)