{"id":35387,"date":"2025-03-07T19:37:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T19:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/07\/california-dem-says-flight-attendant-told-him-party-looked-heartless-for-not-standing-for-boy-with-cancer\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T19:37:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T19:37:59","slug":"california-dem-says-flight-attendant-told-him-party-looked-heartless-for-not-standing-for-boy-with-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/07\/california-dem-says-flight-attendant-told-him-party-looked-heartless-for-not-standing-for-boy-with-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"California Dem says flight attendant told him party looked \u2018heartless\u2019 for not standing for boy with cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"

A California Democrat said he was “politely chased down” by a flight attendant at an airport this week who told him his colleagues looked “heartless” for not standing for Devarjaye “DJ” Daniel,<\/a> the 13-year-old boy with cancer who was honored during President Donald Trump\u2019s address to Congress.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Rep. Ro Khanna said the interaction with the flight attendant, whom he identified as Jim Barrett, unfolded in Chicago.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Sir, I am a Democrat<\/a> but the way the party behaved was embarrassing. Made us look heartless. I don’t care who is up there, you stand for the boy with cancer,” Khanna recalled Barrett as saying. “Be more rational and get your act together.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I replied that a few of us did stand and clap and we must be the party that still believes in kindness, decency, and trying to bring people together,” he added on X.\u00a0<\/p>\n

BOY HONORED BY TRUMP SAYS CANCER WON\u2019T SLOW HIM DOWN UNTIL \u2018GOD CALLS\u2019 HIM HOME<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Daniel stole the show during Trump\u2019s address<\/a> to Congress on Tuesday night when the president introduced him to the audience and officially swore him in as a member of the Secret Service.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Joining us in the gallery tonight is a young man who truly loves our police,” Trump told the crowd. “His name is DJ Daniel [and he] is 13 years old, and he has always dreamed of becoming a police officer. But in 2018, D.J. was diagnosed with brain cancer. The doctors gave him five months at most to live. That was more than six years ago.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

SOCIAL MEDIA EXPLODES AFTER DEMOCRATS DO NOT STAND FOR 13-YEAR-OLD CANCER SURVIVOR<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Daniel received a standing ovation from a majority of the crowd, although some Democrats were seen on camera sitting at various times while Trump was speaking about the 13-year-old.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Quite frankly, there were moments where I feel like anger at some of the actions that have happened over the past month-and-a-half prevented some of my colleagues from being able to stand up to support the little DJ Daniel,” Rep. Laura Gillen, a Democrat from New York, also told News12 Long Island this week.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“I stood up and applauded this little boy, who is getting over cancer, wants to be a police officer — and I was disappointed that I was not joined by any of my colleagues,” she added.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Fox News\u2019 Andrew Mark Miller contributed to this report.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A California Democrat said he was “politely chased down” by a flight attendant at an airport this week who told him his colleagues looked “heartless” for not standing for Devarjaye “DJ” Daniel, the 13-year-old boy with cancer who was honored during President Donald Trump\u2019s address to Congress.\u00a0 Rep. Ro Khanna said the interaction with the … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}