Trump blamed the shutdown on the Democrats: "The federal government remains shut down for one reason, and one reason only, because Democrats will not fund border security," Trump declared.
Trump has been resistant to wearing a mask himself and has not put one on in public, though he said he tried some on backstage during a visit to a mask factory in Arizona last week.
Trump himself has tested negative for coronavirus, his doctors said on Saturday, as the president extended a travel ban to the United Kingdom and Ireland in a bid to slow the pandemic.
Trump has declined to concede the election to Biden, instead lodging a flurry of lawsuits in pivotal states to try to back up his unsupported claims of widespread voting fraud and irregularities.
Trump and his team have clearly been exploiting the public illiteracy on the issue, partly because US news media have not pointed out the fallacy each and every time Trump blames other nations for US trade deficits.
Trump's offer of holding off on imposing new sanctions is a good gesture.
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Trump and his administration has been pressuring schools to reopen in fall, threatening to withhold federal funding from schools that do not comply. Reopening schools is seen a crucial step to restarting the country's economy for his reelection campaign.
Trump told reporters that Russia had “not adhered to the spirit of that agreement or to the agreement itself”.
Trump is scheduled on Friday to deliver a keynote address at a bipartisan forum on criminal justice reform at Benedict College, a historically black college in South Carolina.
Trump said, "We'll be having meetings with Kim Jong-un very soon. It will be - that will be taking place probably in early June or a little before that - assuming things go well."