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Donald Trump S Response To Charlie Kirk S Killing Is Reprehensible

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donald trump s response to charlie kirk s killing is reprehensible

Someone is shot in the US every four minutes. Someone is shot dead every 11. Still, Charlie Kirk’s killing is a horror. No doubt about it. The right‑wing activist and ally of Donald Trump was shot in the neck and killed yesterday evening while speaking at a university in Utah. Kirk was a vocal conservative, unafraid of voicing controversial opinions.

He minimised Russia’s unprovoked and illegal invasion of Ukraine to a ‘border dispute’, dismissed white privilege as a ‘racist idea’, called abortion murder without rape exceptions, spread Covid‑19 disinformation, and pushed false election‑fraud claims... Donald Trump spoke to the nation Wednesday evening about the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, who was fatally shot at a campus event in Utah hours earlier. “Charlie inspired millions, and tonight, all who knew him and loved him are united in shock and horror,” the President said in a video address. “This is a dark moment for America,” he added, apparently blaming the shooting as well as other “terrorism,” including his own attempted assassination last year and “attacks on ICE agents,” on political rhetoric “demonizing... On Truth Social, Trump initially after the shooting posted on Truth Social, calling for prayers for Kirk, whom he called a “great guy from top to bottom.” He later posted: “The Great, and even... No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie.

He was loved and admired by ALL, especially me, and now, he is no longer with us. Melania and my Sympathies go out to his beautiful wife Erika, and family. Charlie, we love you!” Trump also ordered flags in the U.S. to fly at half-mast until Sunday evening. Read More: The Killing of Charlie Kirk and the Political Violence Haunting America

President Donald Trump began an address to the nation Wednesday night by expressing horror at the assassination of the conservative activist Charlie Kirk, a close ally who was killed hours earlier in a shocking... "All who knew him and loved him are united in shock and horror," Trump said in a recorded statement from the Oval Office. Then the president quickly pivoted to blaming the "radical left" for the assassination, even though an investigation into the shooting at Utah Valley University is still ongoing and authorities have not yet identified the... "For years those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world's worst mass murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country today, and it must stop," Trump said. The response showcased Trump's instinct to attack his perceived political enemies in moments of crisis and tense national debate.

Trump's combative approach to his role of healer-in-chief when tragedy strikes also represents a break from tradition, according to presidential historians who spoke with Newsweek. The conservative activist’s killer remains at large and authorities have not said what the motive was behind his shooting. President Donald Trump speaks with reporters on the South Lawn as he departs the White House on Sept. 11, 2025. | Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP President Donald Trump on Thursday told reporters that “we just have to beat the hell” out of “radical left lunatics,” following the killing of conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.

The president, speaking on the South Lawn of the White House as he was heading to New York City, was responding to a reporter who asked what the president’s message was to conservatives who... Trump, who also had some more measured comments about Kirk’s killing during the roughly 10-minute exchange with reporters, said: “We have to be brave in life, in all fairness, we have a life. I probably shouldn’t be out here talking to you in all fairness but we will be brave. And we have a great country. We have radical left lunatics out there and we just have to beat the hell out of them.” President Trump and first lady Melania Trump attend a ceremony at the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial in Washington, D.C.

on September 11, 2025. Saul Loeb/AFP hide caption President Trump plans to posthumously award the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's top civilian honor, to Charlie Kirk, the MAGA influencer and close Trump ally killed Wednesday in a targeted attack on a... "We miss him greatly, yet, I have no doubt that Charlie's voice and the courage he put into the hearts of countless people, especially young people, will live on," Trump said, speaking at an... 11 attacks. On Wednesday night in a video message from the Oval Office hours after Kirk was killed, Trump praised Kirk, who he has credited for helping him win the 2024 election, for his activism.

He then said what happened to Kirk is a consequence of people demonizing those they disagree with "in the most hateful and despicable way possible," and turned his ire to the political left. "Radical left political violence has hurt too many innocent people and taken too many lives. Tonight, I ask all Americans to commit themselves to the American values for which Charlie Kirk lived and died," Trump said. In the days since the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, President Donald Trump has ramped up his attacks on “the radical left,” whom he blames for his friend’s death and for broader political... Speaking to NBC News on Saturday, the president said he wants the nation to “heal,” but added: “We’re dealing with a radical left group of lunatics, and they don’t play fair and they never... Trump’s Saturday comments echo remarks he made Wednesday in a video from the Oval Office hours after Kirk was fatally shot.

The president said in the video that rhetoric from “the radical left” is “directly responsible for the terrorism that we’re seeing in our country today.” “My administration will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity and to other political violence, including the organizations that fund it and support it,” Trump said in the video. The president went on to list other acts of political violence — including the attempted assassination of him last year in Butler, Pennsylvania — but didn’t mention attacks against Democrats, such as the killing... Josh Shapiro’s home in April. On Friday, Trump further escalated his attacks, telling Fox News that left-wing radicals “are the problem” and implied right-wing radicals are not.

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