British actor Dominic West has said he hopes Donald Trump testing positive for coronavirus does not “interfere with him being elected out of office”.
The Wire actor added that he “did slightly leap in the air with joy”, when he heard the news. The US president Donald Trump and first lady Melania have both tested positive for the illness and are in quarantine.
Mr Trump announced his diagnosis in a tweet in the early hours of Friday, following a positive test from one of his closest aides, Hope Hicks.
West told ITV’s Good Morning Britain: “He said: ‘It is what it is’, and I think the phrase is: ‘What goes around comes around.’ “I just hope it doesn’t interfere with him being elected out of office, that’s all.” Asked if he thought there was an