United States President Donald Trump has said that the federal government will not be extending its coronavirus social distancing guidelines once they expire, and his son-in-law and adviser, Jared Kushner, predicted that by July the country will be “really rocking again”.

To underscore his confidence, Trump said he plans to resume out-of-state travel after spending more than a month mostly cooped up in the White House, starting with a trip to Arizona next week. And he said he’s hoping to hold mass campaign rallies in the coming months with thousands of supporters, even though medical experts have said there is little hope of having a vaccine by then.

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