Senator admits that we have to ‘all celebrate DJ Daniel’
Sens. Fetterman, Hirono and Reed Tell Nicholas Ballasy for Fox News Digital why Democrats were not standing for the 13-year-old survivor of Cancer DJ Daniel during the joint address of President Donald Trump to congress. (Credit Nicholas Ballasy)
A Californian Democrat said that he “politely chased” by a stewardess at an airport this week told him that his colleagues looked “heartless” because he was not in favor Devarjaye “DJ” Daniel, The 13-year-old boy with cancer who was honored during the address of President Donald Trump as the congress.
Rep. Ro Khanna said that the interaction with the stewardess, which he identified as Jim Barrett, unfolded in Chicago.
“Sir, I am a democrat But the way the party held was embarrassing. Let us look heartless. I don’t care who is there, you stand for the boy with cancer, “Khanna Barrett recalled.” Be more rational and bring your act together. ”
“I replied that some of us stood and clap and we must be the party that still believes in kindness, decency and try to bring people together,” he added to X.
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Rep. Ro Khanna, D-Calif., Said on X that he was approached by a stewardess who identified himself as a democrat who brought himself with the way his party responded to President Donald Trump in honor of Devarjaye “DJ” Daniel, Right, this week during a speech to the congress. (William B. Ploughman/NBC via Getty Images/Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Daniel stole the show during Trump’s address To the congress on Tuesday evening when the president introduced him to the public and officially swore him as a member of the secret service.
“Tonight in our gallery is a young man who really loves our police,” Trump told the crowd. “His name is DJ Daniel (and he) is 13 years old, and he has always dreamed of becoming a police officer. But in 2018 DJ was diagnosed with brain cancer. The doctors gave him a maximum of five months to live. That was more than six years ago.”
Social media explode after Democrats are not standing for the 13-year-old cancer survivor
Devarjaye “DJ” Daniel meets President Donald Trump in the White House a day after he has been appointed an honorary doctorate. (Photos thanks to the White House)
Daniel received a standing ovation of a majority of the crowd, although some Democrats were seen at different times while Trump spoke about the 13-year-old.
“To be honest, there were times when I feel anger about some of the actions that happened last month prevented some of my colleagues from getting up not to support the Little DJ Daniel,” Rep. Laura Gillen, a Democrat from New York, also told News12 Long Island this week.
Devarjaye “DJ” Daniel Waves, while President Donald Trump tackles a joint session of the congress in the living room in the US Capitol in Washington on Tuesday 4 March. (Alex Brandon/AP)
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“I got up and applauded this little boy, who comes over cancer, wants to become a police officer – and I was disappointed that I was not accompanied by one of my colleagues,” she added.
Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report.
