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DJ Daniel, the 13-year-old crab subsister made celebrated during President Donald Trump's associated code to Congress earlier this month, has officially reported for work astatine the U.S. Secret Service Training Center.
Daniel was astatine the James J. Rowley Training Center successful Beltsville, Maryland, alongside Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem connected March 19, according to a station connected X.
"We're present contiguous astatine the peculiar cause graduating ceremony, the people of 445, with DJ, who is simply a Secret Service agent," Noem said successful the societal media video. "And besides Director Curran."
"That's right, and our newest agent," Curran chimed in.
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DHS Sec. Kristi Noem and DJ Daniel sojourn the James J. Rowley Training Center successful Beltsville, Maryland, connected March 19, 2025. (U.S. Secret Service)
"Yes, we're looking for the champion and the brightest," Noem concluded.
Following the graduation and lunch, Daniel's sojourn was action-packed. It included "a store and driving pad wherever peculiar agents and uniformed officers bid to run exigency vehicles," the Secret Service said successful a media release.
He besides got up adjacent to the president's limousine, known arsenic the Beast, earlier getting an "inside look astatine the Special Operations Division, which provides tactical enactment for the Secret Service’s protective details."
From there, Daniel got to spot a canine objection anterior to checking retired the weapons laboratory and adjacent rode successful the rider spot wherever a trained Secret Service operator "performed fast-paced maneuvers."
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DJ Daniel reported for work astatine the James J. Rowley Training Center successful Beltsville, Maryland, connected March 19, 2025. (U.S. Secret Service)
"That was fun," Daniel said successful a statement. "I wasn’t expecting that car to beryllium that fast."
The instrumentality enforcement enthusiast wrapped up his time with a connection for kids who person cancer.
"Have faith. Believe successful God. Listen to your parents," helium said.
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DJ Daniel poses with Secret Service agents pursuing a K-9 demonstration. (U.S. Secret Service)
On March 4, Daniel received a lasting ovation from a bulk of the crowd, though immoderate Democrats were seen connected camera sitting astatine assorted times portion Trump was speaking astir the 13-year-old.
"Tonight, DJ, we're going to bash you the biggest grant of them all," Trump said. "I americium asking our caller Secret Service Director, Sean Curran, to officially marque you an cause of the United States."
The pursuing day, Daniel visited Trump successful the Oval Office astatine the White House.
DJ Daniel, 13, got to cheque retired the statesmanlike limousine known arsenic the Beast. (U.S. Secret Service)
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"When I went into the office, helium (President Trump) was amazed to spot me. I brought him a cowboy hat," Daniel, who lives extracurricular Houston, said successful a statement.
The Texas teen, who defied the likelihood aft doctors gave him 5 months astatine astir to unrecorded erstwhile helium received a encephalon crab diagnosis successful 2018, has undergone "more than 13 encephalon surgeries and is portion of a probe survey that has fixed his household hope," the Secret Service said successful a media release.
FOX News Digital's Andrew Mark Miller and Taylor Penley contributed to this report.
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