Trump blames rhetoric from the left after Kirk death : NPR
Sympathizers pay tribute to a fortune memorial at the national siege of Turning Point USA in Phoenix after the death death by Charlie Kirk, co-founder and CEO of the organization, during a university event in UTAH on Wednesday, September 10, 2025.
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President Trump condemned the left and the media to “demonize” those with whom they do not agree In a video message of the oval office after his close ally Charlie Kirk was killed During a Utah College campus event on Wednesday.
Trump congratulated Kirk, whom he attributed for helping him win the 2024 elections, for his conservative activism and his commitment to open a debate. He then said that what happened to Kirk is a consequence of people demonizing those with whom they do not agree “in the most hateful and most despicable way”, and turned his anger to the political left.
“Radical political violence has injured too many innocent people and has taken too many lives. Tonight, I ask all Americans to engage in American values for which Charlie Kirk has lived and died,” said Trump.
A suspect in the shooting had not been appointed and was generally at the time of the video release on Wednesday evening
President Trump shares a message on the assassination of Charlie Kirk.
“I ask all Americans to engage in American values for which Charlie Kirk lived and died. The values of freedom of expression, citizenship, the rule of law and patriotic devotion and the love of God. ” pic.twitter.com/3fbsgs4zxa
– The White House (@Whitehouse) September 11, 2025
“For years, radical people have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to the Nazis and the worst mass murder and criminals in the world. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for terrorism that we see in our country today, and that must stop immediately,” said Trump.
Trump said that his administration would find “those who have contributed to this atrocity and other political violence, including organizations that finance and support it, as well as those who attack our judges, law enforcement and all the others who bring order to our country”.
Trump pulled a line line from the assassination attempt during his campaign rally Last year at the murder of Brian Thompson, CEO of Unitedhealthcare and the 2017 shot from the leader of the majority of the Steve Scalie Chamber During a convention baseball practice.
Trump included any Examples of political violence against democrats, like the June attack in Minnesota who killed a state legislator and left another injured or the 2022 Hammer attack on Paul PelosiThe husband of the speaker of the time, Nancy Pelosi. She was not at home at the time, but was the target planned.
Trump paid tribute to Kirk’s work with young Americans and asked Americans to engage in “freedom of expression, citizenship, the rule of law and patriotic devotion and the love of God”, values he said that Kirk adopted, calling him “martyr for truth and freedom”.
In 2017, at the start of his first mandate, Trump tackled the attack on a scalie with much more political restraint, offering a two -minute speech This did not mention the political affiliation of the attacker. The shooter, who was killed by the police, was a supporter of Bernie Sanders.
“We can all agree that we are blessed to be Americans,” said Trump after the 2017 shooting. “We are the strongest when we are unified and when we work for the common good.”
