Trump blames rhetoric from left for political violence after killing of Charlie Kirk

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President Trump and first lady Melania Trump attend a ceremony at the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial in Washington, D.C. on September 11, 2025. On Wednesday night in a video message from the Oval Office hours after Kirk was killed, Trump praised Kirk, who he has credited for helping him win the 2024 election, for his activism. “Radical left political violence has hurt too many innocent people and taken too many lives. Tonight, I ask all Americans to commit themselves to the American values for which Charlie Kirk lived and died,” Trump said. “We can all agree that we are blessed to be Americans,” Trump said after the 2017 shooting.