Dawn Marie Boursiquot, an ambassador for Project 21, says Democrats had an opportunity Tuesday night to put the country above politics but they failed in front of a national audience. That opportunity came when President Trump recognized a guest in the gallery, a young teenager named DJ Daniel who is battling cancer.
"The doctors gave him five months at most to live. That was more than six years ago," Trump said during his speech.
That moment of recognition, when DJ hugged Secret Service Director Sean Curran for his honorary badge, has been called the most moving moment of the night.
“They're so filled with hate that they wouldn't stand. They wouldn’t acknowledge. There was absolutely nothing,” Boursiquot recalls.
day after Trump’s joint address. Democrat Sen. John Fetterman recognized his own party had failed. In an X post, he called Democrats’ actions a “sad cavalcade of self owns and unhinged petulance” that made Trump appear more “presidential and restrained.”
Fetterman, whose state voted for Trump over Kamala in November, likened the current Democratic Party to a car alarm that “nobody pays attention to” anymore.
In his own social media post, President Trump shamed Democrats for showing “total disrespect” to victims killed by illegal immigrants and a cancer survivor. “They didn’t even have the common courtesy to stand, smile, or applaud,” he wrote.
President Trump also recognized the political opportunity for Republicans, too. He said the Republican Party can “take what happened last night and win any Race in the Country.”
Pointing to Trump’s speech, Boursiquot says the President jokingly told Democrats to their faces he could face a cure for cancer and they would still be unhappy.
“And that's the reality,” she concludes. “Nothing people do will please these people. They're so filled with hate and animosity that it just defies common sense. "
