Trump predicts ‘spectacular’ rebound as economy plunges

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Trying to dispel economic gloom&comma; President Donald Trump said on Thursday he is anticipating a major rebound in the coming months and a <i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;spectacular”<&sol;i> 2021&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>While economists are warning of serious long-term damage as the United States plunges into recession because of coronavirus&comma; President Trump is predicting a strong fourth quarter thanks to pent-up demand&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I think we can actually surpass where we were&comma;”<&sol;i> he told reporters in the Oval Office&comma; while admitting he was <i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;relying on his gut”<&sol;i>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I feel it&comma;”<&sol;i> he said&period; <i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I think sometimes what I feel is better than what I think&comma; unfortunately or fortunately&period;”<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote class&equals;"twitter-tweet" data-width&equals;"550" data-dnt&equals;"true">&NewLine;<p lang&equals;"en" dir&equals;"ltr">President <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;realDonaldTrump&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">&commat;realDonaldTrump<&sol;a> just met with <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;GovMurphy&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">&commat;GovMurphy<&sol;a> on Coronavirus testing&comma; financial assistance&comma; and planning a great comeback for New Jersey&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I thank you for the enormous help in our darkest hour of need&comma;&quot&semi; Gov&period; Murphy said&period; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;t&period;co&sol;1VS4n0MOJJ">pic&period;twitter&period;com&sol;1VS4n0MOJJ<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&mdash&semi; The White House &lpar;&commat;WhiteHouse&rpar; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;twitter&period;com&sol;WhiteHouse&sol;status&sol;1255893599969034243&quest;ref&lowbar;src&equals;twsrc&percnt;5Etfw">April 30&comma; 2020<&sol;a><&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><script async src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;platform&period;twitter&period;com&sol;widgets&period;js" charset&equals;"utf-8"><&sol;script><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>President Trump’s comments came during a meeting with New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy&comma; a Democrat&comma; who exchanged praise with President Trump&comma; despite past criticism&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>President Trump said Mr Murphy had<i> &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;stepped up to the plate”<&sol;i>&comma; while Mr Murphy said President Trump has delivered in his state’s darkest hour&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We’ve been crushed and appreciate your consideration on the financial side as well&comma;”<&sol;i> Mr Murphy said&comma; while telling President Trump his state needs 20-30 billion US dollars just to keep firefighters&comma; teachers&comma; police officers and others on the job&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The comments are the latest sign that President Trump is trying to turn the page on the virus&comma; even as the nation’s death toll continues to climb and jobless claims rise&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>President Trump had been hoping to ride a strong economy into another four-year term&comma; but the virus and the economic damage it has wrought upended that strategy&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But economists have waned a sharp comeback may not be realistic&period; They point to expected flare-ups that could force reopened businesses to shut down again&comma; concerns that employees and consumers afraid of contracting the virus could continue to stay home&comma; and the fact that shuttered business may not open again&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>With so much of the economy paralysed&comma; the Congressional Budget Office has estimated that economic activity will plunge this quarter at a 40&percnt; annual rate&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>President Trump has nonetheless given consistently high marks to his administration’s handling of the virus&comma; despite persistent criticism that he waited too long to act&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I think we did a spectacular job&comma;”<&sol;i> he said&comma; days after the nation’s death toll surpassed the Vietnam War&comma; with more than 60&comma;000 dead and a million infected&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I’m not even referring to me&comma; I’m referring to all of these people&comma; including your people who have been working with my people so closely&comma;”<&sol;i> he told Mr Murphy&period; <i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;But the federal government has done a spectacular job&period;”<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The nation’s top infectious disease expert said earlier on Thursday that new cases of the virus are a certainty as states begin to roll back restrictions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>States need to proceed carefully as they take steps to reopen businesses and allow greater freedom of movement&comma; Dr Anthony Fauci said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We will get blips … there’s no doubt&comma;”<&sol;i> Dr Fauci told NBC’s Today show&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;When you pull back there will be cases&comma; and what we need to do is make sure &lpar;states&rpar; have in place the capability of identifying&comma; isolating and contact tracing individuals&period;”<&sol;i><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Dr Fauci urged states that do not have that capability to go very slowly&period; <i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;You can’t just leap over things and get into a situation where you’re really tempting a rebound&period; That’s the thing I get concerned about&comma;”<&sol;i> he said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>His warnings came a day after President Trump said the federal government would not extend its social distancing guidelines past Thursday&comma; and his son-in-law and adviser&comma; Jared Kushner&comma; predicted that by July the country would be <i>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;really rocking again”<&sol;i>&comma; 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