MAGA pundits and right-wing influencers are apoplectic over Nicolle Wallace’s comments about President Donald Trump making a 13-year-old brain cancer survivor an honorary Secret Service agent, calling for the MSNBC host to be fired over her “deranged” and “repulsive” remarks.
Midway through his joint address to Congress on Tuesday night, the president acknowledged DJ Daniel, who was dressed in a police uniform in the gallery alongside his father. Noting that Daniel had always dreamed of being a police officer, Trump said that the young teen was a pediatric cancer survivor who had beaten his diagnosis.
“In 2018 DJ was diagnosed with brain cancer. The doctors gave him five months at most to live. That was more than six years ago,” Trump said to loud applause, before surprising Daniel with another announcement.
“Police departments love him. And tonight, DJ, we're going to do you the biggest honor of them all. I am asking our new Secret Service director, Sean Curran, to officially make you an agent of the United States Secret Service,” the president declared while Daniel’s eyes grew wide.
Following the president’s nearly two-hour speech — the longest ever before a joint session of Congress — Wallace and MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow took exception to what they felt was the president exploiting and politicizing Daniel’s cancer survival.
supporters to blast Wallace online over her
“sickening” commentary while accusing her of “politicizing” a moment from a
highly partisan political speech.
“This is genuinely the most repulsive comment I've heard in a very long time from anyone on television,” Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk
raged, adding: “MSNBC should fire Nicolle Wallace. Disgusting.”
Megyn Kelly’s executive producer Steve Krakauer labeled Wallace’s remarks the “most odious thing” he’s ever heard on cable news. “Totally broken-brained punditry,” he
tweeted.
Former Georgia state representative Vernon Jones
decried Wallace as a “liberal racist piece of sh*t” while also urging MSNBC to “fire her effective immediately,” while far-right provacateur Ian Miles Cheong fumed that the MSNBC star was
“unhinged.” Other conservative social media personalities, meanwhile, described her as
“deranged” and
“depraved.”
A representative for MSNBC declined to comment.