WATCH LIVE: Trump honors Charlie Kirk with Presidential Medal of Freedom, TPUSA colleagues pay tribute

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President Donald Trump is posthumously awarding the late Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk with the nation’s highest civilian honor, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, in a ceremony at the White House Tuesday afternoon.

After Kirk was assassinated while speaking at a college campus event in Utah on September 10, President Trump announced his intent to honor him with the coveted award.

The ceremony will take place Tuesday at 4:00 p.m. ET. President Trump will present the award to Kirk’s widow, Erika.

It will take place on what would have been Charlie’s 32nd birthday.

The ceremony was originally scheduled for the East Room of the White House, but President Trump announced around noon that it has been moved to the Rose Garden to accommodate more people.

“Just got back from the Middle East. What a point in time it was!!! The crowd for Charlie K’s Presidential Medal of Freedom presentation is so big and enthusiastic that I moved it out to the new Rose Garden, where everyone can see the Presidential Wall of Fame and the Palm Court renovation. Enter through Main South Entrance,” he wrote in a Truth Social post.

WATCH LIVE COVERAGE of the ceremony in one of the videos below:

Turning Point USA has posted multiple tributes to Kirk in honor of his birthday.

One post provides a list of 31 ways to live like Kirk, as it cites multiples lines of advice that Kirk often shared with young people.

Multiple Turning Point USA officials and others are honoring Kirk on his birthday.

Tyler Bowyer shared a special memory: “The 2016 Trump campaign was a wild ride. One of the little known stories was traveling with @DonaldJTrumpJr hitting about 10 stops when on the road a ladies car broke down in front of us. Don, Charlie & our crew jumped out to help her push & made history. 🇺🇸 Happy Birthday CK.”

Mikey McCoy, TPUSA Chief of Staff, shared the following moving tribute:

Charlie, Today would have been your birthday. And while you now live beyond time
where the years no longer need to be counted, we who still walk within its limits
mark our own lives today by the impact you’ve left on us.

I wish today were filled with laughter, joy, and celebration.. celebrating another year of your life.

Instead, through tears and gratitude, we celebrate the life you lived. Yours was a life so well lived, Charlie. A life of deep, holy, conviction and bold, selfless courage. You poured yourself out for others in your living… You left the world with its eyes turned toward Jesus in your dying… The greatest aim and ultimate goal of every believer.

I miss you deeply. There’s an ache that words can’t touch. But beneath that ache… There is hope. The hope of heaven and the promise that this separation is not the end. The hope that one day, when I’m called home, and time and sorrow cease, I’ll see my beloved Savior. And I’ll see you again.

I can’t wait to see you again. Until then, your legacy… HOW you lived here… remains. Not only in your work and what you faithfully built, but in the hearts you stirred toward faith, liberty and its source – Christ.

Thank You, God, for the gift of Charlie’s life. Thank You for the eternal hope that anchors ours.

“For we know that if our earthly tent, which is our house, is destroyed,
we have a building from God,
a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.”
2 Corinthians 5:1

“Be faithful unto death.
And I will give you the crown of life.”
Revelation 2:10

Larry Arnn, president of Hillsdale College, shared a video and wrote:

Today would have been the 32nd birthday of my friend, Charlie Kirk. He isn’t gone. His work lives on in @TPUSA, which is stronger than ever. He lives on in Erika, their beautiful children, and the many he inspired to live for the good. A month has passed since we lost him—a hard thing to say. But today, we remember him with joy. Charlie is still with us.

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