Donald Trump claims his administration's actions have "saved millions of lives" and claims the US is already bouncing back from the coronavirus crisis.
The president told the New York Post "there's a great optimism" in the country and he predicts a major economic turnaround in the final quarter of 2020.
It comes as around half the country's state governors ramped up the re-opening of their economies over the weekend, despite a newly revised coronavirus mortality model predicting nearly 135,000 Americans will die from Covid-19 by early August, almost double previous projections. “I think they’re starting to feel good now," Trump said during an interview in the Oval office, apparently sat with a printed list of accomplishments in front of