After Donald Trump shared his positive COVID-19 diagnosis Friday, members of his administration and supporters at the White House followed. The number of those who tested positive following an event for Trump’s Supreme Court pick Amy Coney Barrett in the White House Rose Garden last week continues to grow. At least 10 people have been infected with the virus after attending the event on Sept. 26, The U.S. Sun reported.
Before former White House aide Kellyanne Conway could admit to a positive COVID-19 test following the event, one of her children shared their suspicions on TikTok. Conway’s 15-year-old daughter Claudia Conway posted a video Friday following Trump’s announcement that her mother was “coughing all around the house.” In another post hours later she announced that her mom tested positive for COVID-19, followed by another video with her feelings about it. “im furious. wear your masks. dont listen to our idiot fucking president piece of shit. protect yourself and those around you,” the video caption read. Conway not only attended the garden event at the end of September but the presidential debate Tuesday during which Trump’s posse was seen without masks.
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Claudia’s video appeared on TikTok minutes before her mother announced her positive results on Twitter. “Tonight I tested positive for COVID-19. My symptoms are mild (light cough) and I’m feeling fine. I have begun a quarantine process in consultation with physicians,” Conway said.
But insight into the Conway family and COVID-19 doesn’t end there. After announcing her mother tested positive for COVID-19, Claudia shared a video to announce that she too contracted the virus. “hey guys currently dying of covid!” Claudia said in another TikTok post. Her mother’s post did not address whether her husband or children had been tested for the virus and if so what their results were. Claudia seemed to take matters into her own hands to share this information. "My mom has no symptoms yet I literally feel like HELL," Claudia wrote in the post comments adding symptoms she was experiencing as: "cant feel anything. head is pounding. hard to breathe. Fever/chills.”
Conway announced her decision to leave the White House last month in August. Media reports suggest that the move followed her daughter’s frequent social media posts. Claudia has frequently posted about the differences between her and her family’s political views.
Her posts have garnered a lot of attention on social media for being openly honest and raw in sharing her thoughts. Some of her videos depict her and her mother arguing—in one you can even hear her mother telling her what to say.
No matter what Conway says about her daughter’s post not affecting her they clearly have an impact. “My daughter, Claudia, is beautiful & brilliant. She has access to top doctors & health care & lives comfortably,” Conway wrote on Twitter attempting to remove attention from her daughter’s posts. “Like all of you, she speculates on social media,” the post continued.
Although she is young, Claudia’s posts depict a fresh and realistic view of what is really happening behind the scenes in the White House. She is spilling all the tea as what millennials and Gen Z are calling the “whistleblower of our time.”
In her most recent post, Claudia’s inside intel contradicts Trump’s claim that he is making a quick recovery from coronavirus. "Guys lmao he's not doing 'better'," and "he is so ridiculous. apparently he is doing badly lol and they are doing what they can to stabilize him," Claudia commented on a video, according to Elle Magazine. Despite gasping for air, Trump tweeted Monday that he felt better than he did 20 years ago as he left the hospital in addition to assuring his supporters not to be afraid of COVID-19.
Getting COVID-19 clearly has no effect on Trump and his administration’s mental state. The pandemic has been claiming the lives of thousands of people across the country and has impacted the lives of millions. As of this report, more than 7.4 million people in the U.S. have been infected with coronavirus and at least 210,200 have died as a result, according to The New York Times database.
