The daddy of a younger most cancers survivor honored by President Donald Trump in his speech lashed out at MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow for her adverse remark.
“She must shut her mouth if she has nothing good to say,” Theodis Daniel told the New York Post on Wednesday.
After saying his intent to institute a compulsory dying penalty for “anybody who murders a police officer” throughout his tackle to Congress, the president called out 13-year-old DJ Daniel within the viewers. He spoke of the lad’s love of legislation enforcement and his analysis of mind most cancers at age 6, then had him made an honorary Secret Service agent to the cheers of many within the chamber.
Maddow delivered a slew of fact-checks after Trump’s 1-hour, 40-minute ramble, then veered into no-win territory.
“For the document, and that is disgusting, the president made a spectacle out of praising a younger man who has so far survived pediatric most cancers,” she mentioned. “As if the president had one thing to do with that, which was within the midst of him praising DOGE. DOGE cuts, amongst another issues, have reduce off funding for ongoing analysis into pediatric most cancers.” (Advance to the two:18 mark beneath for the remark.)
Maddow was proper about federal funding for kids’ cancer research being in jeopardy, however DJ’s dad was shocked that she criticized his son’s huge second.
“She doesn’t have to put her unhealthy power on us,” the daddy added.
Maddow wasn’t the one host to catch flak for her evaluation.
MSNBC colleague Nicolle Wallace additionally tried to make political factors ― and the result was cringey.
“I hope he has a protracted life as a legislation enforcement officer,” she mentioned. “However I hope he by no means has to defend the USA Capitol in opposition to Donald Trump’s supporters, and if he does, I hope he isn’t one of many six who loses his life to suicide, and I hope he isn’t one who has to testify in opposition to the individuals who carried out acts of seditious conspiracy after which lived to see Donald Trump pardon these individuals.”
White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt slammed Wallace at a press briefing.
“Final evening, MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace disgustingly looped in a 13-year-old boy with mind most cancers into an assault on the president over January 6,” she mentioned.
