GLENDALE, Arizona – President Donald Trump used Charlie Kirk’s memorial service to portray the slain conservative activist’s killing as an assault on the entire country and vowed that it would not go unanswered.
“The gun was pointed at him, but the bullet was aimed at all of us,” Trump declared, casting the 31-year-old’s assassination as a strike against American freedoms.
Speaking before tens of thousands at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, Trump portrayed the killing as a broader national assault, saying Kirk’s death should be seen not just as an attack on one man or one movement, but on the United States itself.
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He mixed eulogy with warning, describing Kirk as a “giant of his generation” whose death he framed as part of a broader attack
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