Democrats have taken aim at Donald Trump after he honored a cancer-stricken child in his joint session of Congress, accusing the president of using the boy as a “political pawn” while his administration cuts funding for cancer research.

President Donald Trump honored and applauded a young cancer survivor during his recent joint address to Congress despite his numerous attempts to cut funding for healthcare, including pediatric cancer research.

The president's State of the Union address included a line designed to go viral in the right-wing misinformation machine

There were so many mind-numbing utterances squeezed into President Donald Trump‘s feature-length address to Congress on Tuesday night — which has single-handedly left approximately 50% of Americans in a bad mood for the rest of the week — that somehow it took us a minute to pick up on perhaps his strangest claim of the lot.