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This is the turning point. 🇺🇸

The White House

For Charlie, we will speak the truth every single day.

For Charlie, we will rebuild this United States to greatness.

For Charlie, we will never shrink, we will never cower, and we will never falter — even when staring down the barrel of a gun.

For Charlie, we will remember that it is better to stand on our feet defending the United States of America and defending the truth than it is to die on our knees.

For Charlie, we must remember that he is a hero to the United States of America and he is a martyr for the Christian faith. VP JD Vance

"Charlie wanted to save young men, just like the one who took his life."
- Erika Kirk

If you watch one thing today, let it be this — the truly remarkable display of grace and compassion from Mrs. Erika Kirk as she forgives her husband's assassin because that's what Christ would do.

We love you, Erika.

President Donald J. Trump: walks on stage at Charlie Kirk's memorial service to a live performance of God Bless the U.S.A. by Lee Greenwood ❤️🇺🇸

POTUS: On that terrible day — 9/10/2025 — our greatest evangelist for American liberty became immortal. He's a martyr now for American freedom. I know I speak for everyone here today when I say that none of us will ever forget Charlie Kirk, and neither now will history.

POTUS delivers a powerful message to Mrs. Erika Kirk: "Today, an entire nation wraps its loving arms around you and your beautiful children—we share in your immense and overwhelming sorrow—and we vow that we will do everything we can to ensure that your children grow up in a land where their father is honored and revered as a great American HERO."

POTUS: "What was even more important to Charlie than politics and service was the choice he made in the fifth grade — which he called the 'most important decision of his life' — to become a Christian and a follower of his savior, Jesus Christ."

POTUS: "Charlie volunteered for my 2016 campaign and traveled the nation with my son Don, and Eric. I got to know him very well and saw immediately that Charlie was actually a master builder."

POTUS: "Charlie would often call me, sometimes the night before a big event... he'd say, 'Do you think you can come and speak at the event?' ... I almost always went—because you never wanted to let Charlie down."

POTUS: "Through it all, the core of Charlie's message and his basic method never changed... At every campus event, Charlie asked the people who disagreed with him to come forward — and instead of silencing them, he handed them a microphone and let them speak."

POTUS: "Shortly before Charlie arrived on campus the day he was assassinated, a staff member texted him that there were many critics and students who were opposed his views... Charlie wrote back to the staff member saying, 'I’m not here to FIGHT them—I want them to know them and love them...' In that private moment on his dying day, we find everything we need to know about who Charlie Kirk truly was."

POTUS: "The radicals and their allies in the media... tried to silence Charlie for a simple reason: because he was WINNING—and he was winning BIG... They LIED about him because they did not want you to LISTEN to him or to learn from him."

POTUS: "When the news finally came out on Election Night last November that the race was officially won... Charlie was live on camera... Lovingly, Erika put a MAGA hat on to cover his bowed head... When Charlie finally looked up and spoke, he smiled through the watery eyes and said simply: “I am humbled by God’s grace.”

POTUS: "Charlie's murder was not just an attack on one man or one movement — it was an attack on our entire nation."

POTUS: It’s rare that such a thing happens, but Charlie is bigger today than he was just two weeks ago... That is why I will soon award Charlie the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. And we will do the ceremony at our beautiful White House. 🇺🇸

POTUS: No side in American politics has a monopoly on disturbed or misguided people — but there's one part of our political community which believes they have a monopoly on truth, goodness, and virtue, and concludes they should also have a monopoly on power, thought, and speech. Tragically, atrocities of the kind we saw in Utah are the eventual consequence of that kind of thinking. If speech is violence, then some are bound to conclude that violence is justified to stop speech.

POTUS: "Some of the very people who call you a 'hater' for using the wrong pronoun were filled with glee at the killing of a father with two beautiful young children."

POTUS: "The tradition of reason and open debate that Charlie practiced is not a pillar of our democracy, in many ways it's the basis of our entire society... We will defend it at all costs—and we will carry forward the torch of liberty that Charlie Kirk held so proud and so high."