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riversedge

(80,760 posts)
Tue Oct 14, 2025, 09:10 AM Oct 2025

Trump set to posthumously award Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom

This is so appalling to me--that first, Congress has issued a NATIONAL Day of Remembrance for today for Kirk and Trump will honor Kirk with the Presidential medal of freedom.




Trump set to posthumously award Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom


Tuesday marks what would have been Kirk's 32nd birthday.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-set-posthumously-award-charlie-kirk-presidential-medal/story?id=126485749

By Alexandra Hutzler
October 14, 2025, 4:10 AM


President Donald Trump on Tuesday is expected to posthumously award conservative activist Charlie Kirk the nation's highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Trump was the first to announce later that day that Kirk had died, and the next day said he would be be awarding Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom as he hailed the Turning Point USA founder "a giant of his generation."
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............Oct. 14 is Kirk's birthday. He would have turned 32. The House and Senate previously approved a resolution to mark the date as a "National Day of Remembrance."

Trump said last Friday that he was coming back from overseas for Kirk, who called "a friend of mine, a friend of all of us."

“It's the greatest honor," Trump said of the award. "And Erika, his beautiful wife, is going to be here, and a lot of people are gonna be here.”......................
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X is full of posts like this==praising Trump and or Kirk!!












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Trump set to posthumously award Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom (Original Post) riversedge Oct 2025 OP
Charlie who? Emile Oct 2025 #1
Beats me. Dave Bowman Oct 2025 #4
Tuna. durablend Oct 2025 #17
Trump ruins everything Johonny Oct 2025 #2
Thinking the same thing. He has a different definition of honor...opposite of mine. allegorical oracle Oct 2025 #5
Already ruined when he awarded it to Rush Limbaugh. eShirl Oct 2025 #6
I had forgotten that!!! Both awarded by Trump. damn riversedge Oct 2025 #13
Yeah, now it's a sick joke. 🙁 Dave Bowman Oct 2025 #8
Yes the goal is to degrade and destroy anything of value in the US. Irish_Dem Oct 2025 #15
"That'll piss those libtards off!" Turbineguy Oct 2025 #3
Must be what happens when your groomer was Roy Cohn. nt allegorical oracle Oct 2025 #7
And Epstein. n/t Hugin Oct 2025 #18
Lol, least deserving corpse ever. Blues Heron Oct 2025 #9
When this shit show is done, we're gonna need a new medal. Joinfortmill Oct 2025 #10
This is scheduled for 4 pm EDT nitpicked Oct 2025 #11
I think there is a ball game. murielm99 Oct 2025 #12
Charlie Kirk, White Supremacist, Dead at 31 Passages Oct 2025 #14
Remember when that award used to mean something? Vinca Oct 2025 #16
Mark my words Traildogbob Oct 2025 #19
Like nobody saw that turd drop coming Blue Owl Oct 2025 #20
Yet he could not live with the Flag being flown at half-staff when Jimmy Carter died. Midnight Writer Oct 2025 #21
Yea, let's do this so we don't have to talk about bluestarone Oct 2025 #22
What Israel lovingTrump is lying about womanofthehills Oct 2025 #23
As if awarding one to Rush Limbaugh and another to Rudy Guiliani (announced, not yet awarded) wasn't bad enough nt Rob H. Oct 2025 #24

Irish_Dem

(81,177 posts)
15. Yes the goal is to degrade and destroy anything of value in the US.
Tue Oct 14, 2025, 09:52 AM
Oct 2025

Anything people respected, admired, cherished, must be destroyed.

Turbineguy

(40,045 posts)
3. "That'll piss those libtards off!"
Tue Oct 14, 2025, 09:23 AM
Oct 2025

The country isn't divided enough. Of sourse it could just be trump is a moron.

Passages

(4,140 posts)
14. Charlie Kirk, White Supremacist, Dead at 31
Tue Oct 14, 2025, 09:45 AM
Oct 2025

By
Vernellia Randall
Parent Category: Stereotype, Bias, Racism
Category:
Whiteness and White Privilege
25 September 2025

https://racism.org/articles/defining-racism/white-privilege/12835-charlie-kirk-white-supremacist

Traildogbob

(13,012 posts)
19. Mark my words
Tue Oct 14, 2025, 10:57 AM
Oct 2025

He will award himself the Medal as well. I never gamble but I would lay down a lot of cash on that certainty.
By next year he will have a uniform with every military medal ever made. With a Red Combination Hat, (vets know what that is, basically a flat topped police hat) with all his red hat verses on it.
It will need to be more like the Natzeeeee officer ones, really high in the front to accommodate all the “lyrics” from his red hats now.

Midnight Writer

(25,394 posts)
21. Yet he could not live with the Flag being flown at half-staff when Jimmy Carter died.
Tue Oct 14, 2025, 12:56 PM
Oct 2025

These people are so perverse it is like Bizzarro World.

womanofthehills

(10,988 posts)
23. What Israel lovingTrump is lying about
Tue Oct 14, 2025, 02:00 PM
Oct 2025

Charlie was turning against Israel and Turning Points a multi million dollar scam was losing the Republican kids.

Right before Charlie was murdered there are videos on X of Charlie asking big questions of Israel. Kirk - “Was there a stand down order? Was there a stand down order” - referring to Oct 7. Trump is lying to make people think Kirk was still on his side. Kirk was horrible about the Middle East in the past joking about Muslims BUT suddenly did a turn around on genocide and was turning on Israel and having sympathy for the Palestinians - why many believe he was murdered. All his huge donors were Zionists & really super angry atvCharlie. Candace said 3 close friends said Charlie was telling friends that Israel was going to kill him.

“This video of Charlie Kirk saying that Netanyahu let Oct 7 happen so he could stay in power has been REMOVED FROM YOUTUBE”


?s=46

“He asks if there was a “stand down order” on Oct 7 (there was, the border was empty for hours).

They don’t want you to see this.”

So Trump is lying and acting like Charlie approved of Trumps genocide. People don’t pay much attention to news so many still think Charlie still loved Israel as he used to.

Rob H.

(5,847 posts)
24. As if awarding one to Rush Limbaugh and another to Rudy Guiliani (announced, not yet awarded) wasn't bad enough nt
Tue Oct 14, 2025, 04:52 PM
Oct 2025
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