Is President Trump's Covid-19 Illness Fair Game For Comics?

Comedian Chris Rock mocked Donald Trump during his opening monologue on Saturday Night Live, saying, 'My heart goes out to COVID' following the president’s diagnosis 

Daily Mail: 'My heart goes out to COVID': Chris Rock mocks sick Donald Trump in SNL opening monologue 

 * Comedian Chris Rock mocked Donald Trump during his opening monologue on Saturday Night Live saying, 'My heart goes out to COVID' 

 * Trump announced on Friday at 1am that he and Melania tested positive for virus 

 * Poking fun at the show's coronavirus precautions Rock said: 'I haven’t had so much stuff up my nose since I shared a dressing room with Chris Farley!' 

 * He called for the end of the presidency and the launch of a new political system 

 * 'You realize there’s more rules to a game show than running for president? Trump left a game show to run for president because it was easier,' he joked 

 * The cold open saw Alec Baldwin and Jim Carrey spoof the presidential debate 

Comedian Chris Rock mocked Donald Trump during his opening monologue on Saturday Night Live saying, 'My heart goes out to COVID' following the president’s diagnosis. 

The show’s Season 46 premiere hit the ground running with jabs at the president, who is being treated for COVID-19 at the Walter Reed Military Medical Center in Maryland. 

'President Trump’s in the hospital from COVID and you know, I just want to say my heart goes out to COVID,' Rock, 55, joked as the small live crowd laughed. 

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WNU Editor: Not funny ..... 'President Trump’s in the hospital from COVID and you know, I just want to say my heart goes out to COVID.' Will there be the same response if he had said former Vice-President Biden is in his basement because of the onset of early dementia, and my heart goes out to dementia. I wager not.

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