Delaware boy bullied for Trump name a special guest at SOTU 2019

Joshua Trump, a sixth-grade Delaware boy who reported suffering bullying because his Trump last name, is among a dozen people invited by President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump to the State of the Union address on Tuesday, according to the White House.

Among the guests of the president and his wife are the relatives of Gerald and Sharon David of Reno, Nevada, an elderly couple who was allegedly killed in January by an undocumented immigrant. Trump included in the list the special agent Elvin Hernandez, of the Department of National Security (DHS), in charge of operations against the trafficking of people, criminal gangs and drug trafficking.

Alice Johnson, whom Trump pardoned after 22 years in prison for drug crimes, is also a special guess at the State of the Union speech.
Celebrity Kim Kardashian pleaded for her freedom in a meeting with the president in the White House. Also invited is Matthew Charles, who after 22 years in prison for selling drugs, was the first prisoner to be released in January of this year as a beneficiary of the criminal reform promoted by the president.

Judah Samet, a survivor of the Holocaust and the shooting in the synagogue of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, which left 11 dead last October. Related to that shooting, police officer Timothy Matson is also invited, who was shot and wounded.

The list goes on with the opiate addict Ashley Evans, who recently celebrated her first year of abstinence. Roy James, a lumber worker who closed his doors but who reopened as a result of the tax reform promoted by the president. Also Tom Wibberley, the father of one of the victims of the suicide attack of Al Qaeda against the destroyer USS Cole in the year 2000 in Yemen.

With this large list of guests, the Trumps emphasize their political priorities such as the fight against opiates and the fight against irregular immigration, as well as their hitherto achievements such as tax and criminal reforms.

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