Trump to posthumously honor ally Charlie Kirk with Presidential Medal of Freedom

"On Thursday, Trump canceled almost all of his plans to extensively commemorate the 24th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers to travel to Salt Lake City, Utah, with his wife, Melania Trump, and the vice president and second lady, J.D. and Usha Vance, to meet with Kirk's family and offer support to his widow and two children."

"The U.S. president did attend an event at the Pentagon, where he announced that Kirk will be posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. We miss him greatly, he said at the start of his remarks, at a podium placed at the site where the terrorists' plane struck the Pentagon on 9/11, killing 184 people. I have no doubt that Charlie's voice and the courage he put into the hearts of countless people, especially young people, will live on."

"U.S. President Donald Trump has taken the death of the ultra-conservative activist Charlie Kirk as a personal matter. He considered him family. Not only that: politically, Kirk who was shot dead on Wednesday while participating in a debate at Utah Valley University in Orem was one of his closest allies and played a key role in the youth mobilization that fueled the MAGA movement and Trump's own return to the White House last November."

Donald Trump treated Charlie Kirk's death as personal and familial and described Kirk as a key ally who energized youth mobilization that fueled the MAGA movement and Trump's own return to the White House last November. Trump canceled most plans to mark the 24th anniversary of 9/11 to travel to Salt Lake City with his wife and the Vances to support Kirk's widow and two children. He attended a Pentagon event to announce a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom for Kirk, praised Kirk's influence on young people, and issued a recorded Oval Office message blaming the radical left while noting rising political violence affecting both sides.

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