DJ Daniel's father calls out MSNBC's Maddow for comments on 13-year-old son

"She does not need to put her bad energy on us," Daniel said. 

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.

"For the record, and this is disgusting, the president made a spectacle out of praising a young man who thus far survived pediatric cancer, as if the president had something to do with that," Maddow said during MSNBC's coverage of the Trump speech. 

Wallace said she let herself feel "joy" for DJ during the speech, and said she hoped he lives a great life, before then referencing the Jan. 6 riots. 

"I hope he has a long life as a law enforcement officer," she said. "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, and I hope he isn't one who has to testify against the people who carried out acts of seditious conspiracy and then lived to see Donald Trump pardon those people."

Maddow, who will return to a once-a-week schedule in April with her show airing only on Mondays despite making $25 million per year, recently scolded her employer over news that production staffers would be victims of a company-wide headcount reduction. After her on-air criticism of MSNBC management, many Maddow critics noted that she could have offered to save a few jobs by offering to take a pay cut.

"Her annual salary is roughly equivalent to the combined salary of about-go figure-125 production staffers," Puck's Dylan Byers wrote.

"Last night, MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace disgustingly looped in a 13-year-old boy with brain cancer into an attack on the president over January 6," she said.

"It's sad and frankly pathetic that Democrats and liberals in the legacy media continue to allow their hatred for the president to override their love for our country," Leavitt later added.

MSNBC did not immediately return a request for comment.