It's said that White House officials had to stop the President from tweeting his condolences US President Donald Trump reportedly believed that Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson had died from coronavirus.
According to a new report in The Courier-Mail, Trump mistook the meaning of the word “discharged” when Hanks and Wilson announced that they’d left hospital in Queensland, Australia after being diagnosed with Covid-19, believing that they had in fact passed away.
The report states that officials in the White House informed Trump that Hanks and Wilson had been “discharged” from the hospital, and feared that he was about to send a tweet offering his condolences to their family.