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Trump’s Covid-19 diagnosis elicits cheers as #Resistance fails to realize a Mike Pence presidency would be their worst nightmare
Helen Buyniski is an American journalist and political commentator at RT. Follow her on Twitter @velocirapture23
After US President Donald Trump and his wife tested positive for the novel coronavirus, cheers rang out across social media – suggesting celebrants failed to grasp the reality of a Mike Pence presidency, or human feeling itself.
Trump announced in the wee hours of Friday morning that he and wife Melania Trump had tested positive for Covid-19, vowing to quarantine and recover. The president is experiencing mild symptoms, Chief of Staff Mark Meadows told reporters on Friday morning.
News of the diagnosis was met with unmitigated glee by the anti-Trump #Resistance set on social media. At 74, President Trump is one of the oldest commanders-in-chief in US history, and his rotund figure is also a risk factor for Covid-19 complications. His haters in the media and politics couldn’t resist publicly cheering on the virus, while others sarcastically sent their “thoughts and prayers.”
Shocking & shameful. This now deleted tweet was the reaction to President Trump testing positive for Covid-19 from @ZaraRahim - former Obama White House staffer and Hillary Clinton’s former 2016 National Spokeswoman. pic.twitter.com/FKYGGPfWf9
— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) October 2, 2020
Many of the president’s critics assumed Vice President Mike Pence would be similarly stricken with the virus by virtue of his closeness to the commander-in-chief, and instead fantasized about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi taking over.
Trumpy and Melatonin have been tested positive for the COVID19 virus
