Melania Trump and RFK Stepped In After Doctors Told This 15 Year Old Boy Nothing More Could Be Done

May 11, 2026 Cat2, The Media
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Doctors told Will Roberts no child in his condition had ever survived.

Then the 15-year-old from Alabama secretly posted a plea on his mom's Facebook page and asked strangers to get it to Donald Trump.

Now he's in Santa Monica receiving a gene therapy the medical establishment had left sitting on a shelf for fifteen years.

How a Two-Minute Video Reached the Oval Office

Will's cancer started as knee pain he chalked up to growing pains.

It was osteosarcoma – one of the most aggressive bone cancers known to medicine.

His initial survival odds were 70 percent.

Tests came back and moved that number to 20 percent.

Chemotherapy didn't stop it.

Surgeons removed the middle section of his leg where the tumor had taken hold and reattached the remaining parts so a prosthesis could be fitted.

Then an aggressive new tumor appeared on his pelvis.

Then another.

Then another.

"It was like fighting a forest fire with a shovel," Will's father Jason said.

Immunotherapy followed.

It didn't work either.

That's when a doctor sat with Will and told him something no parent should ever hear about their child: no child he had seen in Will's condition had lived.

Will posted his video on April 22 – without his parents knowing.

"My mom doesn't know I'm doing this," he wrote. "Y'all pls share this – my mom might be mad but at this point I'm trying to help her in any way I can right now."

"I've been fighting osteosarcoma," Will said in the clip. "It's a very, very, very deadly and very hard-to-treat bone cancer."

"My chemos are just not working. We've tried basically everything there is, and we're getting toward the end of the road, and I need help."

Then he asked viewers to share it with anyone who could get it to President Trump or RFK Jr.

What Happened Next Took Less Than 24 Hours

Ric Myers, an Alabama oil and real estate developer and Mar-a-Lago member, spotted the video and forwarded it directly to the President.

From there the clip moved through the administration – from First Lady Melania Trump to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to Dr. Mehmet Oz, the administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Barron Trump saw it.

Members of Congress made calls.

The President's spokesperson reached out to say Trump wanted to meet the boy.

On April 24, Oz personally contacted the developers of DeltaRex-G – an experimental gene therapy that hunts cancer cells and delivers a genetic signal that tells tumors to self-destruct, a drug that has been sitting in expanded access limbo for years.

He secured compassionate use approval in three hours – a process that normally takes six months.

The Roberts family received a telehealth call the same day and were on a plane to Santa Monica shortly after.

The Drug That Bureaucrats Forgot

Here's what the media won't tell you about DeltaRex-G.

It's not some untested, desperate long shot.

This therapy has been studied in over 280 cancer patients worldwide across phase 1 and phase 2 trials.

It carries FDA orphan drug designation for osteosarcoma – a status the agency granted back in 2009.

It has produced long-term survivorship of more than ten years in patients with advanced, chemo-resistant cancers.

The Philippine FDA granted it accelerated approval for patients with solid malignancies and no other options.

And yet here in the United States, where the drug was developed, a 15-year-old boy couldn't access it without a Facebook video going viral and landing on the President's desk.

Will received his first dose of DeltaRex-G on Monday – three sessions a week, 30 minutes each.

His mother wrote on Facebook: "We didn't come to California for comfort. We came for a chance."

A GoFundMe aimed at raising $750,000 – covering the $500,000 treatment cost plus travel and prior medical expenses – has raised over $684,000.

"Man, y'all care so much for me to get this drug and I appreciate it so much," Will said in a thank-you video.

The System Democrats Want to Restore Would Have Let Him Die

Jason and Brittney Roberts are both employed with the Alabama Bureau of Investigation.

They are not wealthy.

They had already lost their second child, Darby Kate, shortly after birth due to heart issues in 2013.

They know exactly what grief costs.

Think about what this administration pulled off.

A teenager from small-town Alabama posted a Facebook video and within 24 hours Oz was on the phone cutting through a process that normally grinds families down for months.

The entire medical establishment had told Will Roberts there was nothing left to try.

The Trump administration found something in three hours.

That's not spin.

That's what actually happened.

Under the system Democrats want to restore – the one where a dying child waits half a year for bureaucratic sign-off while the FDA gatekeepers decide which treatments he's allowed to try – Will Roberts gets a palliative care referral and a condolence card.

Under this one, Melania Trump sees a Facebook video and picks up the phone.

Will put it better than any politician could: "Chances are this is probably the end of the road for me and they probably won't get it in time. But if this can help other kids with my cancer, I would love to help any way that I can."

That's not a policy argument.

That's a 15-year-old kid from Alabama who cares more about the next child than about himself.

And right now, because this administration answered when he called, he has a fighting chance.

Sources:

  • Connor Sheets, "Alabama teen with terminal bone cancer gets experimental treatment after viral plea reaches Trump White House," AL.com, April 23, 2026.
  • Staff, "Trump Admin Helps Alabama Teen Battling Bone Cancer Seek Treatment," Breitbart, May 6, 2026.
  • Jennifer Oliver O'Connell, "AL Teen's Plea for Help to Fight His Bone Cancer Went Viral; Now He's Getting Treatment in California," RedState, May 6, 2026.
  • Staff, "Dr. Oz Helps Alabama Teen Secure Experimental Cancer Treatment After Viral Plea," Yellowhammer News, April 2026.
  • Staff, "Alabama Boy Begins Treatment After Secret Facebook Post Asking for Cancer Drug Grabs National Attention," WBRC/WSFA, April 23, 2026.