Welcome to DU, NoRoadUntravelled. 
My first response is because he blew it, he knows it, and the testing results would make it painfully obvious that he has, once again, been an EPIC FAILURE in responding to this crisis. He is KILLING people.
But I ALSO think that he was looking for something to use to make sure he got re-elected. He wanted to, in his own small, warped mind, be our SAVIOR, just like he said during the campaign... only HE could fix this country. Of course it was just a con's line to pander to the sheeple, but it worked on them.
He has now blown the pandemic crisis option.
He also wanted to flout the RED HOT ECONOMY that only helped the rich and Wall Street, but not we little people. THAT has now been shot.
Vlad is now telling him (I think) that he is now beyond HIS help. Pootie Poot can't change enough votes to plausibly get him elected.
Now, as his last resort, he may try to use the pandemic crisis to cancel the election. Many here say that is not possible, yet they have continually made the impossible, possible. Over and over again.
We'll see.
Once everyone gets tested and we find that 50% (conservative guess) of Americans have been infected, and when they start totaling up the deaths actually due to COVID-19, and 1,000,000 people will have died (after the 2nd, 3rd, 4th waves), the shit is going to hit the fan and DRENCH the turd in his own shit. His place in history will reflect that. They will have to dig a hole in the gutter for him to have a place in our history.
But that is just my prediction. YMMV.
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