Dear Commons Community,

Ana Navarro is fighting back against Donald Trump Jr. after he made a dig about obesity at her expense. 

Navarro, 49, initially tested positive for COVID-19 alongside co-host Sunny Hostin while filming Friday’s episode of The View. The TV personality has since learned through subsequent tests that the result was a false positive, and has continued to test negative for the virus. 

Former first son Trump couldn’t resist commenting on her initial diagnosis — which was revealed moments before Vice President Kamala Harris was due to appear on The View — by tweeting that it was “time for a national conversation about the dangers of COVID-19 & obesity.”

On Saturday evening, Navarro responded to the fat-shaming message by poking fun at Trump Jr.’s relationship with his father, former President Donald Trump.

“Thanks for your concern. I don’t have COVID. Fortunately for you, if you want to have a conversation about the effects of obesity on people with COVID, your dad is a phone call away… assuming he answers your calls,” she wrote. “Or just ask your sister to call him for you.”

On Saturday, Navarro took to social media to share that she was safe and healthy following the false positive. 

“Hi everyone. Got my third negative PCR test just a few minutes ago, and came straight to the airport to fly home,” said Navarro in an Instagram video, in which she could be seen wearing a leopard-print mask and cuddling her dog while waiting in the airport. “Obviously, what happened yesterday was a false positive. A very public, very inopportune, very melodramatic false positive. But fortunately we’ve now tested three times, and all three have been negative.”

Navarro went on to thank the people at the Conrad Hilton where she quarantined, as well as the “angels” at The View.

Ana doesn’t hold back.

Tony

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