Joshua Trump, 11, wakes up a celebrity after dozing off during presidential address

[kpete]

Boy named Trump who fell asleep during State of the Union hailed a hero



An 11-year-old boy called Joshua Trump who was invited by his presidential namesake to his State of the Union speech fell asleep and has been hailed as a hero of the anti-Trump resistance.

Joshua Trump, a middle-school student from Delaware, was invited to the delayed event by Melania Trump. He dropped out of school after being bullied because of his last name.

As cameras panned to the audience, the boy could be seen napping while Donald Trump renewed his promise to build a US-Mexico border and declared illegal immigration “an urgent national crisis”.




https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/06/the-trump-who-fell-asleep-during-state-of-the-union-hailed-a-hero?CMP=fb_gu

[bearsfootball516]

1. 11 years old, was probably at or past his bedtime!

I'm not gonna make fun of a kid. The picture of him snoozing is pretty cute/amusing.

[Siwsan]

2. Does anyone think this won't make the bullying even worse?

Perhaps a nap would have been a good idea, before being put on photo op display by his parents, but I thought this whole charade was shameless.

[shanny]

3. that was my thought too: wtf were his parents thinking?

they allowed rump to use their child as a human shield, and in the process set him up for worse bullying. jaysus H

[Initech]

4. He did what we were pretty much all thinking! Love it!

[kentuck]

5. An old spiritual....

"Joshua fought the battle of Jericho and the walls came tumbling down..."

[melm00se]

6. 99.99999% of the 11 year olds

would find the the State of the Union, regardless of who was giving it, a dreadful bore.

[jimdtn]

7. executive time

He just needed some executive time.

[marble falls]

8. I'm so glad he did that. But I hope they don't over meme him. He deserves a kid's life.