• Trump demands economy reopen by Easter amid pandemic • Medical experts & disaster movies tell us this would be bad

“I would love to have the country opened up and just raring to go by Easter," is a thing that Donald Trump just said during a Fox News virtual town hall.

This is contrary to what officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and the World Health Organization, as well as economists, have advised.

"Easter is a very special day for me ... Easter Sunday, and you'll have packed churches all over our country."

A “very special day for me”?

Packing them into churches?

The man is nuts and he could get a lot of people killed.

Trump on why he picked Easter as the day he wants to end strict social distancing and reopen American businesses: "Easter is a very special day for me ... Easter Sunday, and you'll have packed churches all over our country." pic.twitter.com/6cXEtW8LmR

 Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 24, 2020

Trump explains why Easter Sunday is a "beautiful time" for Americans to be working again pic.twitter.com/lwg5cayiKB

 Talking Points Memo (@TPM) March 24, 2020

Trump, asked why he chose Easter as the date to end the shutdown, says it's because it'd be beautiful to have packed churches all around the nation.

 Susan Simpson (@TheViewFromLL2) March 24, 2020

Trump: "And I say, wouldn't it be great to have all of the churches full? You know the churches aren't allowed essentially to have much of a congregation now...

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