Celebrities have mocked Donald Trump and his wife Melania after he announced he had tested positive for coronavirus in the early hours of Friday.
Actress and model Padma Lakshmi, 50, posted a one-word response that simply read, ‘Karma’ for her nearly 740,000 followers on Twitter.
Actress and activist Sophia Bush, 38, echoed many others who pointed out that Trump has referred to the coronavirus pandemic as a ‘hoax’.
‘Is it still a “Democrat hoax?” Are you still going to mock people for wearing masks? Are you sorry for lying to the American people for months? I ask these b/c I assume you’ll get the best taxpayer funded gov’t healthcare avail + genuinely hope you recover. But you owe us answers,’ Sophia tweeted.
One word: Social media lit up after President Donald Trump announced on Twitter that he and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for COVID-19 including Padma Lakshmi who posted one word: ‘Karma’
It comes after the president tweeted shortly before 1am EST: ‘Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!’
The Trumps were tested after the president’s close aide, Hope Hicks, 31, tested positive for the disease.
Hicks had travelled with the president to a campaign rally on Wednesday aboard Air Force One and started feeling poorly on the way back to Washington.
Radio and TV host Scott Nevins tweeted: ‘Once again, a pretty young woman has gotten Donald Trump in trouble because he did not wear protection’.
Songstress Aubrey O’Day said crudely: ‘I think he got it banging Hope.’
Star Wars actor Mark Hamill, 69, said that the disease might have benefits and help people to realise that the virus can infect even the most powerful man in the world.
‘If anything positive can come him testing positive, it would be his followers reevaluating their opinions. If they will now accept a lockdown, social distancing & mandatory mask-wearing, we could crush the virus like we should have from the start.’ Hamill tweeted.
Late night host Jimmy Kimmel, 52, joked: ‘Does anyone know why @Mike_Pence is running around in circles, throwing little pieces of Wonder bread in the air?’
The Masked Singer panelist Ken Jeong, 51, went all capital letters as he tweeted, ‘DON’T DENY THE SCIENCE!!!!!!!’, along with a plea for people to wear a mask.
Whitney Cummings, 38, took to Twitter with a reference to one of the symptoms of coronavirus.
‘Of course Trump didn’t know he had covid he never had taste in the first place?,’ she tweeted.
Star of the UK version of The Apprentice, Lord Alan Sugar, tweeted that Trump might ‘finally wake up and realise this is a dangerous pandemic’
Tested positive: President Trump, shown Thursday at the White House, revealed on social media that he and First Lady Melania Trump have tested positive for coronavirus
Democrat hoax: Sophia Bush asked on Twitter if the coronavirus was still a ‘Democrat hoax’
In quarantine: Trump announced that he and Melania were in quarantine after testing positive for COVID-19
Science wins: Ken Jeong tweeted not to deny science
Sometime symptom: Whitney Cummings, 38, took to Twitter with a reference to one of the symptoms of coronavirus
Positive side: Star Wars actor Mark Hamill, 69, tried to find the positive in the situation
Others cracked jokes about the relationship between Trump and White House counselor Hicks, 31.
No gimmick: Others cracked jokes about the relationship between Trump and White House counselor Hope Hicks, 31, who also tested positive for coronavirus
No protection: Scottt Nevis also tweeted, ‘Once again, a pretty young woman has gotten Donald Trump in trouble because he did not wear protection’
Zach Braff also chimed in and posted, ‘But we were told this was a hoax’.
Adam Rippon also said he was screaming out loud that Trump has the ‘hoax virus’.
Dove Cameron also wondered why Trump got tested for the ‘hoax’.
Common theme: Zach Braff also chimed in and posted, ‘But we were told this was a hoax’ along with other stars who ran with the hoax theme