Trump, different high officers pay tribute to Charlie Kirk on 9/11

President Donald Trump led U.S. officers Thursday (September 11, 2025) in combining tributes to the victims of the 9/11 assaults with these to murdered right-wing activist Charlie Kirk, who was shot the day earlier than.

He was a “giant of his generation,” and a “champion of liberty,” Mr. Trump stated at a ceremony on the Pentagon, which was one of many targets of the Al-Qaeda assaults 24 years in the past that sparked twenty years of lethal battle.

The U.S. president introduced that he would quickly posthumously award Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom — the nation’s highest civilian honour.

Vice-President J.D. Vance cancelled a visit to New York for 9/11 commemorations at Ground Zero so he might journey to Utah to go to with Kirk’s grieving household.

At the Pentagon, Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth stated that “the life, example and even death of Christ follower and American patriot, Charlie Kirk, give me hope.”

“Like those on 9/11, you will never be forgotten,” Mr. Hegseth stated of Kirk, who was fatally shot throughout an occasion at a college in Utah.