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DJ Daniels is a young fan of the police who gained national attention when he was made an honorary Secret Service agent by former President Donald Trump. DJ’s admiration for law enforcement and his dream of becoming a police officer caught the attention of the White House. During an address to a joint session of Congress, Trump surprised DJ by announcing that he was being made an honorary Secret Service agent. CBN's Tara Mergener spoke with DJ and his father about what the gesture meant to the two of them.

WASHINGTON — While many Democrats shouted, booed, walked out or afterward harshly criticized President Donald Trump’s highly adversarial address to Congress on Tuesday, U.S. Sen. John Fetterman a day later took issue with something else: his own party. Fetterman, D-Pa. has long bucked a progressive label, become one of Capitol Hill’s staunchest supporters of Israel and a strong U.S. border, and touted bipartisanship and open-minded politics so much that he’s felt compelled to deny plans to switch parties. But he yet again chastised fellow Democrats on Wednesday — this time over their protests of Trump’s nearly 100-minute speech. Many Democrats...

The father of DJ Daniel, the teenage cancer survivor whom President Trump honored on Tuesday, had harsh words for MSNBC host Rachel Maddow after she deemed the president “disgusting” for spotlighting the boy’s fight with cancer. During an interview with the New York Post, Theodis Daniel said, “She needs to shut her mouth if she has nothing nice to say,” the outlet reported on Wednesday. “This lady didn’t even serve time in the military. I was on the USS Kitty Hawk. She does not need to put her bad energy on us,” he added. Watch the clip of Maddow’s comments...

NEW YORK — President Donald Trump reached an estimated 36.6 million television viewers for his address to Congress on Tuesday night, the Nielsen company said. That beat the 32.2 million people who watched former President Joe Biden's final State of the Union address last year, but was smaller than any of Trump's audiences for the annual address during his first term, Nielsen said. Trump's first speech to Congress as president, in 2017, was seen by 47.7 million people. Television viewing in general has decreased since then. Nielsen measured viewing on 15 different television networks, including those whose feed was carried...

Donald Trump‘s speech to a joint session of Congress drew an estimated 36.6 million viewers, down from the president’s first term but beating Joe Biden’s initial address in 2021. The audience was almost 10 million viewers compared to the 26.9 million who watched Biden’s first speech to a joint session of Congress. Trump’s first address in 2017 drew 47.7 million. The latest figures are from Nielsen and measured 15 networks. The speech’s peak audience was from 9:45 p.m. ET to 10 p.m. ET, with almost 38 million viewers, according to Nielsen

Viewers overwhelmingly approved of what President Donald Trump said in his speech before a joint session of Congress on Tuesday night, according to a CBS News survey. Trump boasted about the many accomplishments since being inaugurated Jan. 20 and exclaimed "we are just getting started." A whopping 76% of those watching said they approved of Trump's first second-term speech to Congress, CBS News survey results showed Wednesday.

We are witnessing a president at the top of his game. Clear-eyed and confident about himself and his agenda, he put on a master class in presidential leadership in what was a speech for the ages. Most times, a political address of 90 minutes would feel like an eternity. In the hands of Trump, it felt like a well-paced adventure through the dreams, hopes and tragedies of the people inhabiting the most important nation on Earth. The Trump on that stage is not just the dominant figure in American life. In six short weeks, he has put our nation at...

Deuteronomy 6: 6-7 (King James Version) And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest up. You wondered why they came to his speech at all, they would obviously rather go to a Hamas rally than a celebration of America. This was a giant speech with the optimism of Kennedy or Reagan who realized his primary job is Cheerleader...

Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) said that President Donald Trump “misused” some of the guests at his speech Tuesday night — including the angel families who lost their loved ones to illegal immigrant crime and the young boy battling brain cancer. “Pretty awful, and I really did not like the way he used the tragic incidents and the families that were there, who, of course, appreciated, you know, what they think is their president caring about what happened,” Waters said, implying that Trump does not actually care about these individuals. “You know, to the 12-year-old, and to others who were victims,...

Most people watching President Trump’s first joint address to Congress approved of his speech according to snap polls. Seventy-six percent of people approved of the president’s remarks, while 23 percent disapproved as reported Wednesday in CBS News and YouGov survey results. A majority of respondents, 63 percent, said Trump spent a lot of time on issues they cared about compared to 28 percent who said the opposite. Another 9 percent said he spent no time at all on their topics of interest. Respondents also noted that his speech left them with a positive feeling overall, 68 percent said the speech...

Former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who infamously tore up President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address in 2020, had to watch in frustrated silence from the House benches as he addressed Congress on Tuesday. Pelosi, gripping her cane, resigned her leadership post after the 2022 congressional elections, in which Republicans retook the House. She had held a firm grip on power in her party — even after leading it to historic defeat in 2010. In 2020, she was in the midst of an effort to impeach and remove President Trump from power. When he delivered a...

Tuesday, following President Donald Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress, Fox News Channel analyst Brit Hume offered his feedback on the President’s remarks. Hume acknowledged the partisan aspects of the address but called it “the most effective” of his 50 years of covering speeches in that setting. “This was the most boisterous, the longest, the most partisan speech I’ve ever heard a president give in this kind of setting,” Hume declared. “And I go back about maybe 50 years on this. I also think it may have been the most effective. I mean, if you ever doubted that...

If you watched Trump’s speech to a joint session of Congress Tuesday evening, you know that Democrats behaved like children, and Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) was so disruptive that House Speaker Mike Johnson had him forcibly removed from the chamber. Speaking to reporters after the incident, Green doubled down on his disruptive behavior and, of course, defended his childish actions. “The president said he had a mandate, and I was making it clear to the president that he has no mandate to cut Medicaid,” Green said. “I have people who are very fearful. These are poor people, and they have...

CBS News/YouGov survey interviewed a nationally representative sample of speech watchers immediately following Trump’s joint address to Congress, and the numbers will please the poll-mindful president. The poll shows an astounding 76 percent of Americans viewing the speech approved of Trump’s remarks, with only 23 percent — less than a quarter — disapproving.

Far-left Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said she will not attend Tuesday evening’s joint session of Congress, announcing her absence hours ahead of the highly anticipated event. “I’m not going to the Joint Address,” the Democratic congresswoman wrote on the social media site Bluesky. “I will be live posting and chatting with you all here instead. Then going on IG Live after.” AOC made the announcement days after asking her followers on the platform what they believed she and other Democrats should do for the event, inaccurately referring to it as a “State of the Union”. “If you were in...

Democrats in the chamber for Trump’s speech have behaved like petulant children from the very beginning of his speech. One of them even had to be removed from the chamber.Trump got tired of it and called them out to their faces, saying that nothing he could ever do or say would cause them to stand, applaud, or even smile.He is absolutely right, and this admonishment called these people out for the vicious, petty, horrible people that they are.Partial transcript via Twitter/X:“I look at the Democrats in front of me, and I realize there is absolutely nothing I can say to...

MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace just said she hopes 13 year old cancer patient DJ Daniel doesn’t Kill Himself from having to deal with Trump supporters I hope he has a long life as a law enforcement officer, 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.”

Good evening: I have addressed the Nation a number of times over the past 2 years on the problems of ending a war. Because of the progress we have made toward achieving that goal, this Sunday evening is an appropriate time for us to turn our attention to the challenges of peace. America today has the best opportunity in this century to achieve two of its greatest ideals: to bring about a full generation of peace, and to create a new prosperity without war. Prosperity without war requires action on three fronts: We must create more and better jobs; we...

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that he believed Vice President JD Vance was correct in his criticisms of European speech laws during a recent speech. Maher said, “JD Vance…the other week, made a speech, in Munich. A lot of people were shocked by it. I thought half of it was pretty shocking because it was about this election that they just had in Germany where there is a party on the ballot that is very Nazi-friendly.” He continued, “But the first part of the speech was about free speech, that I didn’t think he...

The “special relationship” between the US and the UK got awkward Thursday, when Vice President JD Vance confronted British Prime Minister Keir Starmer in the Oval Office over the longtime American ally’s weakening of freedom of speech. Earlier this month, at the Munich Security Conference, Vance had riled European opinion by decrying what he called “the threat from within, the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values—values shared with the United States of America.” Vance stood by his comments Thursday when pressed by a reporter, saying: “I said what I said, which is that we do have,...