Karoline Leavitt calls out Nicolle Wallace over comment on 13-year-old cancer survivor, Trump 'hatred'

DJ Daniel, a 13-year-old cancer survivor, received a standing ovation from a majority of the joint session crowd, although some Democrats were seen on camera sitting at various times while Trump was speaking about the teenager.

Trump explained that Daniel and his dad, who was in the crowd and held his son up at one point during the president's remarks, had been on a "quest" to make his dream of becoming a police officer come true and explained that he has been made an honorary member of local police departments.

"I am asking our new Secret Service director, Sean Curran, to officially make you an agent of the United States," Trump announced during the speech.

"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."

During Wednesday's White House press briefing, Leavitt called Democrats the "party of insanity and hate" before pivoting her attention to members of the liberal media.

"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.

Wallace was not the only network figure to chastise Trump for inviting Daniel to the chamber.

"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," MSNBC host Rachel Maddow said Tuesday evening in response to Trump's address.

Fox News' Jeffrey Clark contributed to this report.