{"id":2636816,"date":"2026-07-28T16:18:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T20:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-to-award-teenage-lifeguard-who-saved-child-from-massive-waves\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T16:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T20:21:07","slug":"trump-to-award-teenage-lifeguard-who-saved-child-from-massive-waves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-to-award-teenage-lifeguard-who-saved-child-from-massive-waves\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump to award teenage lifeguard who saved child from massive waves"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-to-award-teenage-lifeguard-who-saved-child-from-massive-waves%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2636816&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>President Donald Trump announced plans to invite a 16-year-old California lifeguard and his family to the White House to recieve a high civilian honor for rescuing a young boy from drowning at Seabright state Beach in Santa Cruz. The rescue, captured on video and widely circulated on social media, involved the lifeguard battling large waves to save the child who had been pulled away from shore. trump praised the teen\u2019s bravery,expressing his intent to honor him and possibly include the boy he saved during the ceremony. The White House echoed this praise in a social media post, highlighting the heroic rescue. The event garnered additional praise from Trump\u2019s family and online communities, emphasizing the heroism and American spirit displayed. The specific award and date for the ceremony have not yet been announced.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a> announced that he plans to invite a 16-year-old California lifeguard and his family to the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/white-house\/\">White House<\/a> to receive a high civilian honor after the teenager rescued a young boy from drowning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re going to bring this heroic young man, and his family, into the White House with, perhaps, the boy he saved, to give him a High Civilian Honor. Very brave, he deserves it!\u201d Trump wrote in <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116998688330805629\">Truth Social post<\/a> Tuesday.<\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4666280\/trump-to-award-top-civilian-honor-teen-lifeguard-who-saved-child-viral-wave-rescue\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Trump to award top civilian honor to teenage lifeguard who saved child<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4664197\/tribute-lindsey-graham-phone-number-iran-ukraine-war-netanyahu-zelensky\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Trump pays tribute to \u2018respected statesman\u2019 Lindsey Graham: \u2018He felt in his bones that our destiny is to win\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4666296\/trump-lindsey-graham-phone-number-eulogy\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Trump jokes Lindsey Graham got last laugh after he shared senator\u2019s phone number with public<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The White House echoed the announcement in a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WhiteHouse\/status\/2082158335302725687\">post on X<\/a>, praising the teenager\u2019s actions and highlighting the video of the rescue that has circulated widely on social media. <\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-1\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-15\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-1\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rescue occurred at Seabright State Beach in Santa Cruz, California, where the teenage lifeguard battled massive waves to reach the child who had been pulled away from shore, according to <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ksbw.com\/article\/lifeguard-waves-rescue-young-boy-seabright-beach\/73278534\">KSBW<\/a>. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;We\u2019re going to bring this heroic young man, and his family, into the White House with, perhaps, the boy he saved, to give him a High Civilian Honor. Very brave, he deserves it!&#8221; \u2013 President Donald J. Trump \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5IoSQPd93Q\">pic.twitter.com\/5IoSQPd93Q<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The White House (@WhiteHouse) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WhiteHouse\/status\/2082158335302725687?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 28, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Video of the rescue, recorded by bystander Scott Vander Dussen, shows the lifeguard holding onto the boy as large waves battered the pair before another lifeguard joined the rescue and helped bring them safely to shore. Vander Dussen described the rescue as \u201cintense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4615946\/trump-medal-of-honor-award-ceremony\/\"><strong>TRUMP AWARDS MEDAL OF HONOR TO VIETNAM AND AFGHANISTAN WAR VETERANS: \u2018GREAT MEN\u2019<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-2\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-16\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-2\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump\u2019s announcement came after his son, Eric Trump, also praised the teenager\u2019s actions online, urging that he receive the nation\u2019s highest civilian honor and calling the rescue \u201ctruly the best of America!\u201d and \u201cwell done!\u201d in a<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/erictrump\/status\/2081834610757927248?s=46\"> post on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The White House has not yet announced a date for the ceremony or identified which civilian honor the teenager will receive.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"wex-inarticle-ad wex-inarticle-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\">\n<div class=\"wex-ad-wrap wex-ad-art-dsk-inart-3\" style=\"min-height:90px\"><span class=\"wex-ad-label\" hidden>Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-3182201-17\" data-wex-ad=\"art-dsk-inart-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump to honor teen lifeguard for rescue at White House<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4275,"featured_media":2636817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AP26208579830464_b919b7-e1785265411897.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[9497,6845,12701,83350,3634],"class_list":["post-2636816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-awards","tag-hero","tag-rescue","tag-teenage-lifeguard","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/AP26208579830464_b919b7-e1785265411897.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4275"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2636816"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2636820,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2636816\/revisions\/2636820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2636817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2636816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2636816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2636816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}