Joshua Trump is one of President Donald Trump’s special guests tonight for the State of the Union. Are they related?
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Joshua Trump is one of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union guests tonight. And no, he’s not related to President Donald Trump. In fact, sharing a name with Trump is the reason he’s a special guest. Joshua Trump was bullied for his last name.
Joshua is a sixth-grader from Delaware who was bullied because he shares the last name as President Donald Trump, even though they aren’t related. His mother’s maiden name is Trump, which was the name Joshua was using until the bullying started.
NBC News reported in December that Joshua, 11, was bullied so much that he decided he would go by a different last name.
