Axios: Trump Battles Insiders Over Easter “Open Day”

Jonathan Swan reports at Axios:

Believing the worst is yet to come, some top advisers to President Trump are struggling to steer him away from Easter as an arbitrary deadline for much of the nation to reopen.

The operating assumption among administration officials involved in the coronavirus planning is that the April 12 mark — 16 days away — will not, in fact, turn out to be the starting gun for businesses across America to reopen. But Trump is far from chastened.

“I don’t think he feels in any way that his messaging was off,” a top official said. “He feels more convinced than ever that America needs to get back to work.” One person close to Trump expressed concern about market reaction the day after Easter, if the president allows that to be set up too rigidly as Open Day.