Among Trump's guests in State of Union include an offender under the influence of drugs, a student victim of intimidation

A woman released from a federal prison after President Donald Trump shortened his life sentence for drug crime and a Delaware boy who was reportedly bullied because his name was family bears the title of Trump. Address of the Union.

Alice Marie Johnson, 63, served more than two decades in prison without parole until Trump commuted her sentence last year. Johnson's case was championed by reality TV star Kim Kardashian West, who had personally lobbied Trump in the Oval Office.

Delaware's Brandywine School District announced last year that steps had been taken to support Joshua Trump, a college student who has been bullied for years because he shares the president's last name.

The guests that the White House invites to take stock of the state of the Union usually serve to give a face to the policies that the President will promote in his televised speech at the national level.

The Johnson case highlights Trump's legislation pbaded last year to address the concerns of the criminal justice system, including giving judges more flexibility to convict certain drug offenders. The prevention of bullying is a key element of an initiative by Mrs. Trump named "Be Best".

Other guests will represent Trump's opposition to illegal immigration, his efforts to stop human trafficking across the US-Mexico border, his efforts to stem the deadly epidemic of opioid addiction and his policies economic.

The other guests are:

Debra Bissell, Heather Armstrong and Madison Armstrong, daughter, granddaughter and great-granddaughter, respectively, of a couple from Reno, Nevada, allegedly killed at their home last month by a person illegally in the United States.

_ Matthew Charles, a Tennessee man who was one of the first prisoners released under the First Step Criminal Justice Act, signed Trump in December.

_ Grace Eline, a 9-year-old brain cancer survivor.

_ Ashley Evans, a former opioid addict approaching a year and a month of sobriety, hoping to find her daughter full time.

_ Elvin Hernandez, special agent for the Department of Homeland Security's Human Trafficking Unit.

Roy James, director of a lumber factory in Vicksburg, Mississippi, said the White House had been reopened under provisions of Trump's tax reduction legislation.

_ Timothy Matson, a Pittsburgh police officer and member of the SWAT team who was repeatedly hit while he was reacting to the deadly shooting of October 2018 in the synagogue of the USSR. ;Tree of Life. Eleven people were killed.

_ Judah Samet, Holocaust survivor and member of the Tree of Life synagogue.

_ Tom Wibberley, father of seaman Craig Wibberley, killed in the October 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen.

Johnson was convicted in 1996 on eight counts of a Memphis-based cocaine smuggling ring. Federal courts, including the Supreme Court, dismissed his appeals. His clemency demands were rejected by President Barack Obama, who for eight years in office had commuted the sentences of hundreds of federal inmates convicted of drug-related crimes.