[lordleft]

I honestly don't know...it seems the majority of Americans are alive to the dangers of COVID and believe we aren't doing enough, and Trump's approval ratings are plummeting, so this doesn't make sense to me -- but his reaction doesn't have to be rational, it could be a desperate attempt to do exactly what you said, and cultivate the appearance of things being fine.

[pchristensen]

"the majority of Americans are alive to the dangers of COVID and believe we aren't doing enough"

Possibly a majority, but nowhere near all.

[UncleMeat]

Trump just believes in stuff. It doesn’t need to make sense. “It’ll go away by Easter”.

Trump probably believes that if we all just go back to normal that we will be fine and he will be a hero because that’s how his mind works. It doesn’t matter if it makes sense.