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A man threatened to smash a Trump supporter’s laptop if his tweet went viral

Donald Trump caused quite the commotion today at St. John's University in Queens, New York, but it wasn't the presidential candidate himself.

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Instead, a Trump sticker on the back of a student's laptop was the source of the problem.

On Wednesday morning, a St. John's student noticed a classmate with a "Make America Great" sticker on her computer and posted a tweet saying if 7,000 people retweeted him, he'd "smash" her computer, the Daily News reported.

The tweet has since been deleted, but we grabbed a screenshot from this archive. Take a look. It racked up over 14,000 retweets before it was deleted:

Trump laptop smash tweet
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After the tweet was posted, the female student in the pictures asked the other student, a man who goes by @ockisdead on Twitter, to take it down.

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Instead of complying, another student who reportedly witnessed the altercation says the man punched the female student in the chest, the Daily News explains. According to the Daily News, the female student then retaliated by throwing coffee at him.

Since the alleged incident, @ockisdead has been suspended on Twitter. Later Wednesday, St. John's University tweeted thanking people who had reported the incident and that student safety is the school's top priority.

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