{"id":53259,"date":"2025-03-05T17:11:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T17:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/trump-appoints-13-year-old-cancer-survivor-as-united-states-secret-service\/"},"modified":"2025-03-05T17:11:03","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T17:11:03","slug":"trump-appoints-13-year-old-cancer-survivor-as-united-states-secret-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/trump-appoints-13-year-old-cancer-survivor-as-united-states-secret-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump appoints 13-year-old cancer survivor as United States secret service agent"},"content":{"rendered":"

While talking about the 13-year-old and his commitment, Trump elevated his position and made him ‘an agent of the United States Secret Service.’ The big announcement seemed like a dream-come-true moment for Daniel and his family.<\/p>\n

Introducing DJ Daniel, Trump said, “Joining us in the gallery is a young man who truly loves our police; his name is DJ Daniel. He is 13 years old and has always dreamed of becoming a police officer.”<\/p>\n

DJ has been a warrior and fighting bravely against cancer since 2018, when he was diagnosed with brain cancer. The doctors treating him had given him 5 months at most to live.<\/p>\n

But the strong and determined Daniel was not willing to give up. And ever since, he and his father have been on a quest to make his dream come true.<\/p>\n

In a video released by the White House, Daniel was seen saying, “I had thirteen brain surgeries and that’s how many times my personality has changed. I wouldn’t have been here if it wasn’t for my dad, he is proud of me and I am pretty proud of him too.”<\/p>\n

He added, “I would like to thank President Trump, because if it wasn’t him, I wouldn’t have been here today.”<\/p>\n

Trump said, “DJ has been sworn in as an honorary law enforcement officer. The police departments love him, and tonight, DJ, we are going to do you the biggest honour. I am asking our new Secret Service director, Sean Curran, to officially make you an agent of the United States Secret Service.”<\/p>\n

Further detailing on his health, Trump highlighted, “DJ’s doctors believe his cancer likely came from a chemical he was exposed to when he was younger. Since 1975, rates of child cancer have increased by more than 40%.<\/p>\n

Reversing this trend is one of the top priorities for our new presidential commission to make America healthy again chaired by our new Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F Kennedy Jr.”<\/p>\n

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US President Donald Trump’s recent address to a joint session of Congress set records for being the longest one. In his speech, Trump highlighted the efforts of a young boy, DJ Daniel, as an honorary law enforcement officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":2000083045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-53259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000083045,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile_1-19.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile_1-19.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile_1-19.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile_1-19.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile_1-19.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile_1-19.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000083045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53259"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=53259"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=53259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}