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riversedge

(80,773 posts)
Tue Oct 14, 2025, 09:10 AM Oct 2025

Trump set to posthumously award Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom [View all]

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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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
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