President Donald Trump said that MSNBC hosts Nicolle Wallace and Rachel Maddow “should be forced to resign” during remarks in the Oval Office on Thursday.
The MSNBC hosts took issue with Trump making DJ Daniel, a 13-year-old brain cancer survivor, an honorary Secret Service agent, during his joint address to Congress on Tuesday night. Wallace and Maddow felt as though it was an exploitation and politicization of Daniel’s cancer survival.
“For the record — and this is disgusting — the president made a spectacle out of praising a young man who’s thus far survived pediatric cancer, as if the president had something to do with that,” Maddow said after the Tuesday address. “This was in the midst of him praising DOGE. The DOGE cuts, among other things, have cut off funding for ongoing research into pediatric cancer.”
“The good news is very few people watch them anymore,” Trump said Thursday, referencing “MS-DNC,” his nickname for the network. “They have lost such credibility.”
“And, 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,” the president continued. “She should be forced to resign.”
“And Rachel Maddow should be forced to resign. Nobody watches her anyway,” he added. “It’s not possible they pay her as much money as I hear. But, certainly, 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.”
