President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and a host of top administration officials vowed Sunday that the mission of slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk would only grow stronger in the wake of his assassination.
At a memorial service in Glendale, Arizona, attended by tens of thousands of supporters, Kirk was repeatedly described as a martyr who would live on through his movement after he was killed at a Utah university 11 days prior.
“He’s bigger now than ever before. And he’s eternal,” Trump said while noting he would award Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Trump headlined the memorial, with a speech that both honored Kirk’s life and delivered many familiar lines from the president’s political rallies, delving into claims about violence from left-wing extremists that most speakers stayed away from Sunday. But it was Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, who drew the biggest response from the attendees, delivering an emotional speech while promising to take up her husband’s mantle.
Sunday’s memorial was a mix of a celebration of Charlie Kirk’s Christian values and a political call to arms not to allow his killing to silence the conservative movement. The Trump administration officials and MAGA stars who spoke fondly remembered the 31-year-old with an uplifting tone and a message of resolve, though a handful also expressed their anger at his murder.
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