Yeah, I think if you're as destructive as Trump is, with as much history of leaving bankruptcies in your wake, then you have to be aware of when the exit plan is advisable, and since he's been doing this unusual-for-him gig of working a hired job for other people for nearly four years, and since instead of protecting and defending the constitution (i.e.: his assigned task) he uses it essentially for toilet paper every day, then I think he has to consider whether he really wants to sign on for four more years of that job.

My amateur psychology effort: I think he does not have that much hope for his own soul and so he distracts himself and changes the discussion to pretending to himself that he is the person trying to make the hard decisions despite the near-term reputational problems and that he is willing to be honest when it really counts in some way. We saw him blather about "the hardest decision he has ever made" or some such, when he was trying to see himself as the one to decide when the entire country would open back up. He lies to himself and others that he is trying to do what is right for the economy, though his understanding of epidemiology and related is so clearly deficient that maybe he is actually telling the truth - maybe he actually thinks he is trying to protect the economy (and all the saving of lives that go with that effort).

There is the possibility that in the long-run it will turn out that there is value to doing what Sweden is doing (letting the disease run rampant) but in the meantime, that is not settled among experts and Trump did not appear to consult anyone when he, in effect, acted (or omitted action) to help get the US in that direction.