Trump, a life-long believer in the “power of positive thinking,” sincerely believes that if he and his administration just asserts that they are making progress against the virus, it will happen. https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1253087660891144195

If he simply forces the government to distribute a miracle cure, it will cure the disease. If he simply says that we’re testing, the tests will happen. If he declares the economy re-opened, the economy will come roaring back.

Neither he nor his enablers seem to believe in objective, material reality, in the fact that the virus exists regardless of what we say about it or what we want to believe about it.