Yesterday's campaign presser aka guidelines to "reopen" the country

But, first:

That's supposed to be a point to cheer.  Overworked truckers.

Okay...the presser with Daniel Dale coverage:

Trump: "My administration is devoting every ounce of our energy, every fiber in our bodies, to give a tremendous -- really, create a border, create something very powerful, against this virus, this horrible virus."

Build a wall.

Trump begins a speech about truckers by patting a truck. He says: "They are beautiful, beautiful trucks. That's the real deal. You wouldn't switch jobs with anybody, would you, huh? You wouldn't. I know the truckers. They wouldn't switch with anybody. It's what they love, right?"

Trump, on script, begins by saying they have undertaken the country's greatest mobilization "since World War II." He says they have unleashed the "most potent weapon of all": Americans' courage. He tells people who've lost loved ones that their pain is our pain.

Trump's script says they have made "great progress." He adds, "You could really say incredible progress."

Trump says we're on track to beat the most optimistic projection, then immediately says, "There is no such thing as an optimistic projection on death."

Trump: "America wants to be open and Americans want to be open."

Trump warns of "a sharp rise" in drug abuse, alcohol abuse, heart disease, and other "physical and mental" problems from a prolonged shutdown.

Trump: Some states not in the kind of trouble others are; we have passed the peak in new cases; we're now starting "life again" in a "safe and structured and very responsible fashion."

No. No we haven't passed the peak in new cases.

Trump: If the virus returns in the fall, "as some scientists think it may, possibly," we will "put it out quickly."

This is, again, Trump suggesting he has made a decision to let states do something they don't need his permission to do. (He could have tried in various ways to make governors' lives difficult, but he never had the power to lift their restrictions.)

Fauci: "It will be staggered; not every state, not every region will do it at the same time"; that's "obvious"; but "sooner or later," we'll safely get back to some form of normality.

We're already in "some form" of normality. Have been since Trump took office. It's not a good form.

Fauci: "There may be some setbacks" with reopening; "we may have to pull back a little" at some point.

Trump: Some governors told me they're now "in very good shape," and I think there'll be some good news to report in the next "few days" about things opening up.

Those Republican governors who are gambling their citizens' lives against favors and nice tweets from Trump.

Trump: I spoke to sports commissioners, and many of them will start without fans; "Made for television. The good ole days." (?) He says there'll then be space between fans; then, "when the virus is gone, we'll be back to normal." (We haven't heard this stuff from the commishes)

Trump: I asked today, why would they wear masks in Wyoming or North Dakota? And it's because if someone comes in from another area where things haven't been so successful.

Trump on the anti-restrictions protesters: "They seem to be protesters that like me." (Indeed, there were MAGA hats and Trump flags in Michigan.)

Also guns and Confederate flags.

Trump: Some states "got too much credit for what they've done," while others "haven't been given credit" but did a phenomenal job.

Trump: There's not going to be a new normal where somebody with an 158-seat restaurant now has to have 30; they're going to be 158 seats, and that's going to happen relatively quickly, and we want a normal with 100K fans back at Alabama football games.

Trump says "it's ridiculous" to think the federal government is supposed to be doing testing in a parking lot somewhere. (He called up corporate CEOs at a press conference to tout a supposed initiative to test people in their parking lots; few sites are operational.)

Trump says some states can reopen because of "location," "luck," and also "talent."

Trump on state-by-state reopening: "I call it: a beautiful puzzle. You have 50 pieces. All very different...But when it's all done...a very beautiful picture."

Trump: "A lot" of states will open relatively soon; "we're beating the date" of May 1. "That's big stuff...big stuff, very important states."

Trump: "You have state without any problem...few cases, and those few cases have healed." (Every state is in the hundreds of confirmed cases, though obviously some have far fewer than others.)

Trump on how this virus has "decimated" people, even his own friends: "Some are DEAD, right now. They're dead."

Trump on the $349 billion small business loan program whose funds have run out: "So just for the viewers watching this, or hearing you ask that question, exhausted is a good thing, not a bad thing. It went quickly, it is so popular."

Trump: "People should have told us about this. They should've told the rest of the world, too." He continued downplaying the virus well after lots of warnings.

After the CDC director talks about the importance of "early diagnosis, isolation and contact tracing," Trump interjects that there are places with "wide open plains, wide open spaces," "where you're not going to have to do that."

"Cruel."  "Unfair."  "Distant land."