Torn over lifting curbs, Trump faces 'biggest decision ever'

"I'm going to have to make a decision, and I only hope to God that it's the right decision," Mr. Trump said on Friday during his daily news briefing on the fight against the coronavirus

As he grapples simultaneously with the most devastating public health and economic crises of a lifetime, President Trump finds himself pulled in opposite directions on what to do next. The bankers, corporate executives and industrialists plead with him to reopen the country as soon as possible, while the medical experts beg for more time to curb the coronavirus.

The phone calls from his business friends compete against the television images of overwhelmed hospitals. The public health experts tell him what he is doing is working, so he should not let up yet. The economic advisers and others in his