Folks Are VERY Amused After Don Jr Catches COVID-19

On Friday the White House confirmed that Donald Trump Jr., son of President Donald Trump, has examined constructive for coronavirus. He’s one in all a number of distinguished Republicans — together with Florida Senator Rick Scott, and Andrew Giuliani, son of Rudy, who confirmed they’ve been uncovered to COVID-19 simply as we speak alone.

And in fact he’s one in all dozens of individuals in Donald Trump’s rapid orbit who’ve contracted the virus within the final a number of months, together with Donald Trump himself, and Herman Cain, who died from it in July. This comes after months of efforts by the president and his associates to downplay the sickness and switch efforts to forestall individuals dying of it right into a political wedge situation.

In what might be not a shock, as soon as the information was public, individuals on social media positively selected to not stay politely silent about their emotions concerning Don Jr.’s situation. Instead, they got here with heaps and plenty of jokes at his expense.

“I guess his father finally hugged him,” Jimmy Kimmel joked.

“He’s trying so hard to be like his dad,” Podcaster @ArmyStrang mentioned.

“He’s quarantining in the belly of a slaughtered rhino, wrapped in dead elephant skin,” author Andrew Goldstein cracked.

“It’s easy to joke, but this a serious situation and my thoughts and prayers are with the coronavirus right now,” comic Mike Drucker mentioned.

Of course COVID-19 is a severe sickness, so it’s good for Don Jr that, in accordance with his spokesperson, he’s “completely asymptomatic so far,” and is safely quarantining. The information of his an infection comes slightly below two months after his personal father was hospitalized with the sickness, and simply two days after the COVID loss of life toll in United States handed 250,000 individuals.

Trump Jr. has, in fact, been a steadfast supporter of his father’s COVID-19 insurance policies. This consists of: spreading blatant, and harmful lies about masks utilization; spreading baseless conspiracy theories in regards to the timing of vaccine bulletins; outright mendacity that the United States has the pandemic underneath management (infections charges are setting new information nearly each day); and in addition mendacity in regards to the loss of life toll.

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