Trump to posthumously award Charlie Kirk with Presidential Medal of Freedom

[ificandream]

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Source: The Hill

by Alex Gangitano - 09/11/25 10:15 AM ET

President Trump on Thursday announced he will posthumously award conservative activist Charlie Kirk with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, a day after Kirk was shot and killed while speaking to a large crowd at Utah Valley University.

The president made the announcement at the top of his remarks at the Pentagon where he was commemorating the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. He said the date of the medal ceremony will be announced later.

“Before we begin, let me express the horror and grief so many Americans at the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk,” Trump said. “Charlie was a giant of his generation, a champion of liberty and an inspiration to millions and millions of people.”

Trump called Kirk’s family “fantastic people.” “We miss him greatly, and yet I have no doubt that Charlie’s voice … will live on,” he said.

Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5498203-charlie-kirk-presidential-medal/

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I wouldn't call him "fantastic people."

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Update: Among those who have received it are Simone Biles, Walt Disney, Martha Graham, Duke Ellington, Fred Rogers (by George W. Bush), Rosa Parks, Mother Teresa (by Ronald Reagan), Margaret Thatcher (by George H.W. Bush), Bob Dylan and Tiger Woods (by Trump in 2019) and also posthumously to John F. Kennedy, Steve Jobs, Pope John XXIII, Lyndon Johnson, John Wayne, Paul "Bear" Bryant, Thurgood Marshall, Cesar Chavez, Walter Reuther, Roberto Clemente, Jack Kemp, Harvey Milk, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, Elouise Cobell, Grace Hopper,[12] Antonin Scalia, Elvis Presley and Babe Ruth.

I noted the Republican president recipients because those presidents didn't spit on the award as Trump has now.

[Dave Bowman]

1. That medal is becoming a sick joke because of Dumpster.

[mahina]

2. Oh brother.

[GenThePerservering]

3. Tmurp is milking this for everything it's worth

it's like a gift to the snowflake right.

[Omnipresent]

4. Charlie was so great, trump never felt the need to offer him a cabinet position when he was alive.

[3catwoman3]

5. This is so beyond disgusting that I can't even...

…find adequate adjective.

[2na fisherman]

6. Orwellian medal for Kirk

"Freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength."

[VanceFan]

7. Oh well

That reward is now worthless.

[NJCher]

8. yes, completely

we'll dump it and invent a new one when we take over.

[Mr.Bee]

9. I knew that was coming

this generation's Rush Limbaugh

[ificandream]

10. Yeah, crossed my mind yesterday, too.

And I can think of a few other names he could end up giving it to before this nightmare is over.

[ananda]

11. Will it be plastic, with spray-painted gold?

Hmm?

[eppur_se_muova]

12. IMHO: the next Democrat POTUS should retire the MOF as "too tainted to have further honor".

Then inaugurate a "Presidential Medal in Celebration of Democracy".

[QueerDuck]

13. Thus tarnishing it even more. Rush Limbaugh was bad enough... now this?

[sinkingfeeling]

14. Of course. Kirk only promoted 2A freedom.

[travelingthrulife]

20. He died in support of his beliefs!

[moonshinegnomie]

15. the medal has lost all meaning after he gave it to limbaugh the human fecal matter

[popsdenver]

17. Exactly

the medals have become like "Participation Trophies" for everyone on a kids athletic team.....All of Trump's Super Toadies get one....

[valleyrogue]

19. Limbaugh got it only because he was dying of cancer.

Kirk is getting it only because he died in a horrible fashion.

[twodogsbarking]

16. Will there be a urinal service at the cemetery?

[pwb]

18. Trump finds a way to diminish everything.

A medal from a man like Trump is no honor. IMO.