President Donald Trump‘s tweet announcing his positive COVID-19 test has become his most liked and retweeted tweet ever.
Early Friday morning, Trump tweeted, “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 tweet quickly surpassed more than one million likes and over 750,000 retweets despite being sent out in the middle of the night as most Americans were sleeping.
Previously, the president’s most shared tweet was from August of last year, when he announced rapper A$ASP Rocky’s release from detention in Sweden.
“A$AP Rocky released from prison and on his way home to the United States from Sweden. It was a Rocky Week, get home ASAP A$AP!” Trump tweeted on August 2. The tweet garnered 310,000 retweets and over 818,700 likes.
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His most liked tweet of this year, before his coronavirus announcement, was from May 31 when he said, “The United States of America will be designating ANTIFA as a Terrorist Organization.”
Since redefining the use of Twitter during the launch of his presidential campaign back in 2015, Trump has been known to use the platform to communicated with the public.
This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.
