Donald Trump introduced he’ll posthumously award Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom after he was assassinated whereas talking on a university campus in Utah.
“Charlie was an enormous of his technology, a champion of liberty, and an inspiration to hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands of individuals,” Trump stated Thursday morning whereas delivering a 9/11 remembrance speech on the Pentagon. “We miss him tremendously, but I’ve little question that Charlie’s voice and the braveness he put into the hearts of numerous individuals, particularly younger individuals, will stay on.”
The Medal of Freedom is taken into account the very best civilian honor in america, supposed for these with distinctive contributions to world peace, nationwide safety or American cultural endeavors. In his first time period, Trump gave the Presidential Medal of Freedom to rock icon Elvis Presley, Supreme Court docket Justice Antonin Scalia, golf legend Tiger Woods and conservative radio pioneer Rush Limbaugh, amongst others.
