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Trump says businesses could reopen — soon — while fighting coronavirus NewsColony President Donald Trump addresses the coronavirus response daily briefing at the White House in Washington, March 23, 2020. Jonathan Ernst | Reuters President Donald Trump suggested Monday that he wants to urge businesses to reopen — sooner rather than later — while the government works to fight the coronavirus pandemic. “At some point we’re going to open up our country, and it will be fairly soon,” Trump said during an evening press briefing on the fast-spreading virus. Asked whether “soon” could be a matter of weeks or of months, Trump replied, “I’m not looking at months.” The daily briefing at the White House came as U.S. officials at every level of government scrambled to rein in the spread of the coronavirus by implementing draconian emergency measures that threaten to cripple the economy. Some administration officials have painted a harrowing portrait of the spread of COVID-19 in U.S...