Jeez, I had to click on Breitbart for this one:
Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning trade economist and New York Times columnist, celebrated the sharp decline of the stock market due to the coronavirus on the grounds that, in his opinion, it would hurt President Donald Trump.
“Economists, myself included, often make a point of saying that the stock market is not the economy, which it isn’t. It *is,” however, pretty much the Trump presidency,” Krugman tweeted. “Take away his magic talisman and there’s nothing left.”
Not sure how he's rooting for disaster here. He's just saying that Trump is the "great economy guy" and the only thing he has is a strong stock market. When the market goes down, Trump has nothing to prop him up. Is that rooting for disaster? Is it just stating the obvious? I'm not sure I see where it's "rooting" for a disaster at all.