(DCNF)—President Donald Trump said Thursday that MSNBC hosts Nicolle Wallace and Rachel Maddow should be “forced to resign” over their remarks about the 13-year-old cancer patient who became an honorary Secret Service agent during the president’s congressional address.
Maddow accused the awarding of Devarjaye “D.J.” Daniel, who has suffered from brain cancer, with a Secret Service badge during Tuesday’s congressional address as a “disgusting” political ploy, while Wallace invoked the child to criticize Trump for the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot. While signing executive orders, Trump said the hosts should resign over their “disgraceful” remarks about the boy “who is suffering greatly.”
“Frankly what Nicolle Wallace said, I’ve never been a fan of hers and she’s not very talented, but I’ll tell you what she said the other day about that young man is disgraceful. She should be forced to resign, and Rachel Maddow should be forced to resign,” Trump said. “Nobody watches [Maddow] anyway, it’s not possible they pay her as much money as I hear. But she’s lost all credibility, both of them. But what they said the other day, they should be forced to resign [for what they said] about that young person who is suffering greatly.”
Wallace said that she hopes Daniel “never has to defend the U.S. Capitol” against Trump and his supporters.
“But I hope [Daniel] never has to defend the United States Capitol against Donald Trump’s supporters, and if he does, I hope he isn’t one of the six who loses his life to suicide, and I hope he isn’t one who has to testify against the people who carried out acts of seditious conspiracy and then lived to see Donald Trump pardon those people,” Wallace said.
Maddow said the president “made a spectacle” out of the young boy by supposedly pretending to help fight pediatric cancer.
“For the record, and this is disgusting, the president made a spectacle out of praising a young man who thus far has survived pediatric cancer as if the president had something to do with that,” Maddow claimed. “This was in the midst of him praising [the Department of Government Efficiency], [and] DOGE cuts among other things, have cut off funding for ongoing research into pediatric cancer.”
Daniel’s father, Theodis, condemned Maddow and Wallace’s remarks about the honoring of his son in a statement to the New York Post.
“[Maddow] needs to shut her mouth if she has nothing nice to say,” the father said. “This lady didn’t even serve time in the military. I was on the USS Kitty Hawk. She does not need to put her bad energy on us.”
Democrats refused to stand and applaud for Daniel, angel mothers who lost their children to illegal immigrants or 19-year-old athlete Peyton McNabb, who suffered from brain injuries as a result of competing against a transgender-identifying man. Trump signed an executive order Tuesday, announced during his address, to rename the Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge after 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray, who was sexually assaulted and murdered by two illegal immigrants, to commemorate her love of animals and wildlife.
