Donald John Trump is just rarin’ to get the U.S. reopened for business.

He said this via Twitter to drive home the point:

“Once we OPEN UP OUR GREAT COUNTRY, and it will be sooner rather than later, the horror of the Invisible Enemy, except for those that sadly lost a family member or friend, must be quickly forgotten. Our Economy will BOOM, perhaps like never before!!!”

Quickly forgotten, he said. To be fair, at least the president did acknowledge with a single phrase contained in a single sentence that many Americans will be hurting.

Do you get the feeling the expression aimed at “those that sadly lost a family member or a friend” is a throwaway line, something that he felt he needed to say just to assuage critics of the absence of empathy in the president? That is my takeaway.

The president’s continuing message to a nation reeling with anxiety and tragedy from this pandemic continues to concentrate on the economic impact and the “fantastic job” he believes he and his team are doing to stem the infection.

I keep waiting — and I know it’s futile — for the president to speak exclusively about Americans’ pain. I keep waiting for him to offer words of comfort, an expression that he truly gets it, that he hurts right along with them.

I know it’s not coming. I know that this president is incapable of leading us in this time of deep pain and peril.