Melania Trump shows a sincere tribute to Charlie Kirk
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The first lady Melania Trump offered her condolences to the Kirk family while the founder of Turning Point USA Charlie Kirk leaves behind his wife, Erika, a 3 -year -old girl and a 1 year old son.
“Charlie’s children will be raised with stories instead of memories, photographs instead of laughter and the silence where their father’s voice should have echoed,” wrote Melania Trump on X.
“The life of Charlie Kirk should serve as a symbolic recall that compassion consciousness raises family, love and the country,” she added.
Kirk was killed around 12:20 p.m. Wednesday when he speaks during an event on the University of Utah Valley campus in Orem. The Utah Ministry of Public Security said Kirk, after being killed, was emergency to the Timpanogos Regional Hospital, where he was declared dead.
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Charlie Kirk, on the left, who was murdered on Wednesday September 10, 2025, and First Lady Melania Trump, on the right. (Images Andrew Harnik / Getty; Will Oliver / EPA / Bloomberg via Getty Images)
A man’s hunting remains on Thursday for the suspect behind the assassination.
The first lady’s comments occurred shortly after President Donald Trump published an oval office message on the assassination.
“He’s a martyr for truth and freedom,” said Trump.
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Charlie Kirk speaks at the University of Utah Valley on September 10, 2025 in Orem, Utah, before the assassination. (Trent Nelson / The Salt Lake Tribune / Getty Images)
In an article on social networks, Trump said that in the honor of Kirk, “a very large American patriot, I order all the United States flags in the United States lowered by mast until Sunday evening at 6 pm”
“No one understood or had the hearts of young people in America better than Charlie,” wrote the president in another article. “He was loved and admired by all, especially me, and now he is no longer with us. Melania and my sympathies go to his beautiful wife Erika, and to the family. Charlie, we love you!”
Charlie Kirk distributes hats before speaking at the University of Utah Valley in Orem, Utah, Wednesday September 10, 2025. (Tess Crowley / The Deseret News via AP)
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In August, Kirk published a photo of the first lady carrying a crown on a false coverage of Vanity Fair on X, by writing: “We must make the cover of existence.”
