Whenever big news breaks, it tends to take over Twitter within minutes. Surprising nobody, the president of the United States announcing via tweet that he and the First Lady have contracted COVID-19 sent what seemed like every user on the Bird Site diving for their phones.
Trump’s tweet came in the middle of the night on the East Coast, and there are unlikely to be many further developments until the morning — meaning that Twitter is obviously rife with speculation, conspiracy theories, and memes of various taste levels.
There’s also no shortage of attempts to game out the next few weeks, as though literally anybody has any idea what happens when a sitting president contracts a potentially deadly virus 35 days out from a presidential election he’s actively trying to undermine while behind in the polls. Read more…
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Source : Trump announced he has COVID-19, so of course, Twitter descended into chaos
