White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt calls out Nicolle Wallace over comment on 13-year-old cancer survivor, Trump 'hatred'
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Leavitt called the reaction to Trump's address from Democrats and liberal pundits 'sad and frankly pathetic'

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Published March 5, 2025 2:51pm EST

Karoline Leavitt calls out Nicolle Wallace, 'legacy media' over reaction to Trump's congressional address

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said it is 'sad and frankly pathetic' that Democrats and members of the media put their 'hatred' of President Trump over the American people.



White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt criticized liberal media figures, including MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace, following President Trump's address to Congress.

"I am asking our new Secret Service director, Sean Curran, to officially make you an agent of the United States," Trump announced during the speech.

But the gesture did not sit well with Wallace, who attempted to draw a connection between Daniel and the 

"I hope he has a long life as a law enforcement officer," she said. "But I hope he 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."



13-year-old cancer survivor DJ Daniel is honored during President Donald Trump's Joint Address to Congress on Tuesday, March 4, 2025.

During Wednesday's White House press briefing, Leavitt called Democrats the "party of insanity and hate" before pivoting her attention to members of the liberal media.

"Last night, MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace disgustingly looped in a  into an attack on the president over January 6," she said.

"It's sad and frankly pathetic that Democrats and liberals in the legacy media continue to allow their hatred for the president to override their love for our country," Leavitt later added.





White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt speaks during a briefing at the White House, on Wednesday, Feb. 5.

Wallace was not the only network figure to chastise Trump for inviting Daniel to the chamber.

"For the record, and this is disgusting, the president made a spectacle out of praising a young man who thus far survived pediatric cancer, as if the president had something to do with that," MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said Tuesday evening in response to Trump's address.

"This was in the midst of him praising \," she continued. "The  among other things, have cut off funding for ongoing research into pediatric cancer."



_Fox News' Jeffrey Clark contributed to this report._

Nikolas Lanum is a reporter for Fox News Digital.
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