"It's fully expected, there's no surprise"

Trump on CA reopening amid the coronavirus: "People want to get back to work ... I see what's going on & Newsom has been very generous to me in his statements & I appreciate it but I think they can move a little quicker in CA to be honest, & I think the people are forcing it." pic.twitter.com/MgGdKLX9NJ

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 8, 2020

NEW: More than 33m Americans are unemployed, and facing an impossible situation: They may not be ready to retake their old jobs, but they may not have much of a choice. Financial duress and threats from the state send them back to potentially unsafe work: https://t.co/e601uNn7zA

— Tony Romm (@TonyRomm) May 8, 2020

"I can tell you there's a lot of pent up demand in this country," @PressSec says about easing social distancing. Polling has consistently shown majorities want to maintain social distancing measures. If everything opens and people are too scared to go out, it doesn't change much

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) May 8, 2020

"The US shed 20.5 million jobs, and the unemployment rate surged to 14.7 percent in April ... worse than any unemployment rate on record in modern data, and higher than anything experienced since the Great Depression." https://t.co/mrzxr7GrP4

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 8, 2020

“It’s fully expected, there’s no surprise,” Trump said in a Fox News interview, which took place as the devastating jobs report came out.

So no problem either, right?