The White House has announced that Joshua Trump, a year six student who has been bullied at school because of his last name, will be among the presidential guests for the State of the Union address.
Joshua Trump, 11, from Wilmington, Delaware, is not related to the first family. Newsweek and other news outlets reported last year that Joshua has been ridiculed on the school bus and elsewhere, to the point that he began using a different last name.
Melania Trump has said she will focus on countering online bullying as first lady. The first family typically invites guests to the annual State of the Union speech to highlight causes or individuals whose circumstances illustrate the President's priorities.
The White House said other guests would include a survivor of the mass shooting at Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh last year, the family of an elderly Nevada couple allegedly killed by an undocumented immigrant, and a woman sentenced to life imprisonment for a drug offence and granted clemency by Trump.
Trump's address will take place on Wednesday Australian time.