Trump says keeping US Covid-19 deaths to 100,000 would be a ‘very good job’
President extends social distancing rules to 30 April, saying open for Easter plans were only ‘aspirational’
Donald Trump has extended America’s national shutdown for a month, bowing to public health experts, and scientific reality, and warning that the worst of the coronavirus pandemic is yet to come.
Speaking in the White House Rose Garden, the US president claimed that, if his administration keeps the death toll to 100,000, it will have done “a very good job” – a startling shift from his optimistic predictions of a few days ago when he said he hoped to restart the economy by Easter.