Cruz tweeted the message in response to a Daily Caller video of a CNN segment that aired Monday as Trump arrived back at the White House after leaving Walter Reed Medical Center, where he was hospitalized for the coronavirus.
 
“Keep in mind this is not just the president returning to the White House, this may be Patient Zero. This is the virus coming back to the White House,” CNN reporter Jim Acosta said in the grim clip.

“I will tell you... having been here all day, it is eerily quiet and empty inside the corridors of the West Wing,” Acosta told CNN viewers. “They evacuated much of the West Wing earlier today.”

Cruz retweeted the video to his nearly four million followers with the caption, “CNN, stop rooting for our President to die.”