Trump confirmed in an interview with Fox News that Hope Hicks, one of his closest confidantes, had tested positive and added later on Twitter that he and First Lady Melania Trump had got tested too.

Tonight, @FLOTUS and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 2, 2020

Mr Hicks was traveling with Trump on Air Force One on September 29 to fly to Cleveland for the first Presidential debate with Democrat Joe Biden.

With only 32 days left for the US Presidential elections to kick off, two more presidential debates with Joe Biden are scheduled in the coming weeks apart from the campaigns.

Trump had consistently played down concerns about being personally vulnerable to contracting COVID-19. “I felt no vulnerablity whatsoever,” he told reporters back in May. The virus has killed more than 2,00,000 Americans and infected more than seven million worldwide.

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Brad Downey, a Berlin-based American artist, who commissioned the sculpture said the statue is now blackened and disfigured.

“I want to know why they did it,” said Downey, who is hoping that the statue would spark conversations about the political scenario in the United States highlighting mainly the immigration issues.

Meanwhile, the white house did not respond to the incident yet. Police have launched an investigation to look into the matter. In January, a large wooden statue resembling Donald Trump was also burned to the ground in Slovenia.

The statue was first unveiled in July 2019. The sculpture was carved with a chainsaw by local folk artist Ales Zupevc from the trunk of a living linden tree.

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