As President Donald Trump rushed forward with guidelines for state government’s to reopen the economy during the coronavirus pandemic on Thursday, Late Night host Seth Meyers wasn’t convinced Americans will be so fast to re-enter everyday life while the health crisis still rages.

“I’m still wiping down every piece of mail like the return address says Chernobyl,” Meyers joked. “What do you even mean by opening up anyway? You can’t make people go out. Are you going to have federal agents knock on peoples’ doors and make them go to Olive Garden?”

Trump released guidelines for opening up America again on Thursday, the same day it was reported that 4,591 more people had died due to coronavirus—a spike that nearly doubled the previous high point from just one day earlier. In a sign of how the general public feels about the prospect of pulling back on social distancing measures and stay-at-home quarantines, the Pew Research Center found that 66% of Americans (including 51% of Republicans) are worried that state governments will lift restrictions and guidelines too soon.

Citing a poll by Politico that showed an even greater number of people wanted to maintain social distancing guidelines, Meyers noted, “When it comes to reopening the economy, voters want the government to move slowly, not more quickly. That should be good: moving slowly is the one thing Trump's good at, both metaphorically and literally. He lumbers around the White House lawn like a retiree spraying crabgrass.”

In his remarks on Thursday, Trump notably placed the onus for reopening individual states on local elected officials—despite earlier in the week claiming falsely he had the “ultimate authority” to order governors to stop stay-at-home measures. Trump was mocked and criticized for those comments, and later backtracked to say he would authorize governors to implement the opening plan when they saw fit.

“You can’t authorize people to do something they already have the authority to do,” Meyers said. “He’s like a boss who thinks he's being generous by telling his employees, ‘Hey, when your shift ends tonight feel free to, you know, go home to your families or whatever. I give you the permission to do that.’”

Meyers this week repeatedly used his late-night pulpit to slam Trump and his inconsistencies to the coronavirus response. Yet, as he noted, the president was often given the benefit of the doubt by political press and pundits, even as recently as two weeks ago. “Some people were still holding out hope that when shit got serious Trump would get serious,” he said, “when in reality it was clear he would just be shit.”

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