Posted on 10/14/2025 3:28:14 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
President presented award to Kirk’s widow, Erika, on what would have been the far-right commentator’s 32nd birthday
Donald Trump posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award in the United States, to the assassinated far-right commentator Charlie Kirk at the White House on Tuesday.
Kirk, who was shot at an event at Utah Valley University in September, was among the most significant rightwing activists in the modern political era, galvanizing a younger generation of conservatives to engage in politics and support Trump’s candidacy ahead of the 2024 election.
But Kirk was also polarizing through his rhetoric, which often criticized gay and transgender rights. He made suggestions that the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a “mistake”. Some critics have argued tributes to him elevated extremist views that stoked division.
“So one month after Charlie’s death, we still feel the terrible shock and the pain of his loss like just about nobody I can think of. Charlie Kirk was one of a kind, and he was unstoppable,“ Trump said from the Rose Garden, where Kirk’s widow, Erika, accepted the award on her late husband’s behalf.
“As I said on the day that he was assassinated, Charlie Kirk was a martyr for truth and for freedom,” Trump claimed.
The ceremony for Kirk was held on what would have been his 32nd birthday. Trump returned to the US early Tuesday morning in time for the event after an impromptu trip to Israel and Egypt to take a victory lap after Israel and Hamas agreed to an initial ceasefire deal last week.
In at times emotional and religiously tinged remarks, Erika Kirk expressed her loss and recounted their children’s birthday messages to her late husband. “Now he wears the crown of a righteous martyr,” she added.
The Presidential Medal of Freedom was...
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The “woke” left will blow a gasket over this. They had only JUST BARELY managed to finally to force the narrative around to the idea that Charlie was a Fascist, who spread hate, and now something like this takes the wind out of their sails.
(cue up more of the stupid, never-ending comments appearing all over (Anti)-Social Media that “Charlie is officially the Horst Wessel of MAGAts”).
“... extremist views that stoked division “
Like The Guardian does everyday
I’m not comfortable with the way the title is worded...
Really, when did Trump die???
The fkn leftie Guardian has to make Trump seem like he is only about his cronies, and could not be bothered to note that Giuliani was the Mayor of New York City who led the recovery when the planes struck the Twin Towers?
Excellent!
Maybe before he does die, he can reform the American education system.
English isn’t that hard to teach...
Rhe limey marxists can piss off.
Exactly! Now let me get this straight: Xiden can award the Nazi collaborator Schwartz Gyorgy this prestigious award but Donald Trump is forbidden from giving it to a true American patriot Charlie Kirk?! I don’t think so!
Good for Mr. President.
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