President Donald Trump blasted MSNBC hosts Nicolle Wallace and Rachel Maddow on Thursday for what he described as their “disgraceful” feedback in regards to the 13-year-old most cancers survivor he honored throughout his current handle to Congress.
Talking with press within the Oval Workplace, Trump urged that Wallace ought to be compelled to resign after she stated she hopes Devarjay “DJ” Daniel, an aspiring regulation enforcement officer who was made an honorary U.S. Secret Service agent throughout Trump’s speech, does not commit suicide due to Trump supporters.
???? JUST IN: Trump calls on MSNBC to FIRE Rachel Maddow and Nicolle Wallace, who alluded to 13 12 months outdated most cancers affected person DJ Daniel Okay*LLING HIMSELF because of his interactions with Trump supporters
These sick losers ought to be in an asylum.
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“They’ve misplaced such credibility; and, frankly, what Nicolle Wallace stated — I’ve by no means been a fan of hers, and he or she’s not very proficient — however I will inform you, what she stated the opposite day about that younger man is disgraceful. She ought to be compelled to resign,” he added.
Wallace drew backlash from many on social media for saying throughout post-speech evaluation that whereas she hopes Daniel “has a protracted life as a regulation enforcement officer,” she hopes Trump supporters do not drive him to kill himself.
“I hope he has a protracted life as a regulation enforcement officer,” she stated. “However I hope he by no means has to defend the US Capitol towards 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 towards the individuals who carried out acts of seditious conspiracy after which lived to see Donald Trump pardon these folks.”
4 officers — one with the U.S. Capitol Police and three with the D.C. Metropolitan Police Division — died by suicide within the weeks and months after the riot on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in accordance with FactCheck.org.
Maddow, who referred to as Trump’s honoring of Daniel “disgusting” throughout her dialog with Wallace, also needs to lose her job, Trump advised reporters.
“And Rachel Maddow ought to be compelled to resign. No person watches her anyway. I do not know — it is not attainable they pay her as a lot cash as I hear. However actually, she’s misplaced all credibility, each of them. However what they stated the opposite day, they need to be compelled to resign [over the comments] about that younger individual, who’s struggling vastly,” he added.
The White Home additionally criticized the MSNBC hosts’ feedback, accusing them of utilizing the most cancers survivor as a political bludgeon towards Trump.
“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,” White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt stated Wednesday.
“It is unhappy and admittedly pathetic that Democrats and liberals within the legacy media proceed to permit their hatred for the president to override their love for our nation,” Leavitt added.
MSNBC and Wallace particularly have been hemorrhaging viewers because the presidential election, with Wallace’s program “Deadline: White Home,” seeing a 35% drop in viewers after Trump’s victory, in accordance with Fox Information.
The congressional Democrats who attended Trump’s handle to the joint session had been broadly panned for refusing to face for something Trump needed to say, together with for his visitors corresponding to Daniel, former Russian hostage Mark Fogel and his mom, or the household of slain Trump supporter Corey Comperatore, who was murdered through the July 13 assassination try towards Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Jon Brown is a reporter for The Christian Put up. Ship information tricks to jon.brown@christianpost.com
