‘I’m rooting for the virus’: Liberals publicly rejoice following news of Trump’s positive COVID-19 test

Liberals on Twitter, many with verified accounts, rejoiced late Thursday following news that Donald and Melania Trump had both tested positive for the coronavirus.

“There is a God,” ESPN baseball writer Marly Rivera tweeted shortly after news broke of the positive test.

“I don’t feel bad about hoping he dies because I’ve been hoping that since 2015,” Roadshow social media editor Daniel Golson tweeted.

Political activist and Parkland shooting survivor Cameron Kasky posted a Twitter video laughing about Trump’s positive test.

“I’m not one to laugh at other people’s suffering, but…. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA,” Civil Rights activist Danielle Muscato tweeted.

“I hope they both die,” congressional candidate Steve Cox tweeted.

“I hope Trump’s diagnosis wakes his supporters up to the reality of the pandemic and also that it makes him suffer and die,” Director Michael Bonfiglio tweeted.

“I don’t think his story is going to have a happy ending,” CNN contributor Rick Wilson tweeted around the same time the news broke.

“For once, I’m rooting for the virus,” film critic Simon Abrams tweeted.

“PLS DIE PLS DIE PLS DIE,” musical artist Nedarb tweeted.

“if Biden and Trump die of covid I will literally laugh forever,” Actor Armani Salado tweeted.

CNN’s Don Lemon suggested that Trump should “take a lesson from Joe Biden” and take social distancing guidelines more seriously.

Other Twitter users took the positive test as an opportunity to criticize Trump adviser Hope Hicks who also tested positive for the coronavirus.

“Guess we’ll find out just how close Trump and Hope are, if you know what I mean,” political scientist and Lincoln Project senior adviser Rachel Bitecofer tweeted.

The hashtags #TRUMPGOTCOVID and #TrumpHasCovid were both trending early Friday morning with many Twitter users expressing glee over the diagnosis and using GIFs of people laughing and smiling.

President Trump announced the positive test on Twitter late Thursday night, telling the American public, “We will get through this together!”

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