Trump Says MSNBC Hosts Should Be ‘Forced To Resign’ Over Remarks About 13-Year-Old Cancer Patient

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 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 about that young person who is suffering greatly.”

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Wallace said that she hopes Daniel “never has to defend the U.S. Capitol” against Trump and his supporters.

“But I hope 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.