“Whatever happens, the next four years can’t be as bad as that four-year study abroad I did in Italy, right?” Knox wrote on Twitter just before midnight Eastern Time.

Her tweet garnered backlash from social media users almost immediately. Hundreds took to the post’s comments section to express disapproval, with some pointing to the high stakes of another Donald Trump presidency for many living in the United States.

Since his election in 2016, Trump’s public comments toward women, people of color and immigrant communities have fueled division across the country. Moreover, some said his policy decisions, including efforts to repeal the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, build a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico, overturn Roe v. Wade, and institute restrictions for military personnel who are transgender posed real threats to American lives and livelihoods.

Others who responded to Knox’s tweet in its comments section late Tuesday night took issue with the sentiment’s perceived lightheartedness, given the gravity of this year’s election as well as her experience in Italy. Knox became the focus of global headlines after she was convicted of Meredith Kercher’s 2007 murder in Perugia, where she and Knox both studied as exchange students at the nearby university. The two women were roommates, and Knox was quickly implicated in the U.K. woman’s death.

Kercher’s widely publicized case was subject to mass scrutiny, and with it, Knox’s involvement in the crime. She was exonerated in 2015 after four years spent in prison. Knox’s story has drawn support and condemnation from the public. Suggestions that Knox lacked remorse, or failed to acknowledge the seriousness of the crime of which she was accused, were among criticisms that circulated during her trials and after her acquittal.

Still, many pointed to an absence of sufficient evidence connecting her to Kercher’s death as well as the media’s role in manipulating the public’s perception of her. A 2016 Netflix documentary about Knox’s time in Italy highlighted the controversy surrounding the case.

Knox publicly sparred with Trump during the earlier part of 2017, following reports that the president was “very upset” to learn she voted for Hillary Clinton during the 2016 general election, since he openly supported her exoneration years earlier. In an op-ed published by the Los Angeles Times roughly six months into Trump’s first term in office, Knox called his reported expectation of loyalty “undemocratic and dangerous,” asking, “What do I owe him?”

Newsweek reached out to Knox’s representation for comment but did not receive a reply in time for publication.