Most churches will remain closed on Easter despite President Trump saying Tuesday that he hoped the pandemic would be sufficiently checked by then to have them “packed.”

“Wouldn’t it be great to have all the churches full?” Trump said during a Fox News interview. “You’ll have packed churches all over our country. I think it’ll be a beautiful time.”

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