Day 235
 
It’s Day 235 of President Trump’s second term. No one has lost their Social Security, Medicare, or veterans’ benefits in spite of constant media and leftist lies.



Killing Charlie Kirk
 
Charlie Kirk had an amazing life. He was drawn to the political arena at a young age, founding Turning Point USA in 2012—straight out of high school. He built it into a political powerhouse. In the 2024 elections, Charlie Kirk and Turning Point USA were essential to the GOP’s voter turnout efforts and to Donald Trump’s election.
 
At 31 years old, Charlie Kirk was one of the most influential and effective leaders of the conservative movement. He had a tremendous future ahead of him.
 
HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., wrote, “Once again, a bullet has silenced the most eloquent truth teller of an era. My dear friend Charlie Kirk was our country’s relentless and courageous crusader for free speech.”
 
Like the murders of John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy, we must recognize this for exactly what it was. It wasn’t a mindless act of random violence. This was a deliberate political assassination. If random mass violence was the goal, the shooter could have killed hundreds of college students who were out in the open at Charlie’s event.
 
No, there was only one goal and one target—“Kill that Nazi Trump adviser, Charlie Kirk.” That’s why he was killed.
 
Charlie Kirk was killed because he went into the cesspools of academia to combat the Left’s indoctrination. (See below.) He was killed because he encouraged young men and women to get married and have children.
 
He insisted that innocent babies should be allowed to live. He said the idea that men can get pregnant was insane. He believed America was the greatest country on earth.
 
That’s why his wife now has to bury him.
 
Yesterday, as news of the shooting broke, Charlie’s wife, Erika, posted this: “Psalm 46:1 - God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.”
 
Please keep Erika and her two young children in your prayers.
 
 
 
Proclaiming Truth & Fighting Leftist Nihilism
 
Charlie Kirk was best known for courageously going on college campuses and directly engaging with students, “evangelizing” for conservative values. Of course, university campuses are centers of left-wing nihilism.
 
It’s on university campuses where Jew-hatred has metastasized into a runaway cancer. Charlie was a staunch defender of Israel and aggressively fought antisemitism. In recent years, it was a major part of his work.
 
It’s on university campuses where students suffer through classes on the evils of “whiteness.” Charlie wasn’t afraid to call out the Left’s racism.
 
It’s on university campuses where students are taught to hate the values of their parents. Charlie proudly defended faith and family.
 
Charlie Kirk has been fighting nihilism his entire adult life. He wasn’t out there railing on what he was against. He was telling students there is something better and more fulfilling.
 
Our only response to his murder should be the same response Donald Trump had when he pushed himself up from the stage at Butler, Pennsylvania, and broke free of the Secret Service agents: “Fight! Fight! Fight!”
 
That’s exactly what we must do today, tomorrow, and every day.
 
 
 
A Dark Moment
 
During an Oval Office address to the nation last night, President Trump said Charlie Kirk was a “martyr for truth and freedom,” adding that his assassination is “a dark moment for America.” If you missed it, you can watch the president’s address here.
 
This is indeed a dark moment. President Trump called out the Left’s intolerance and constant demonization of those who simply have different opinions, saying:
 
“It’s long past time for all Americans and the media to confront the fact that violence and murder are the tragic consequence of demonizing those with whom you disagree day after day, year after year, in the most hateful and despicable way possible.
 
“For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world's worst mass murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we’re seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now.”
 
Charlie’s assassination was just the latest in the string of violent attacks by the Left against all things American and against normalcy. And President Trump did not hesitate to say so. The president declared:
 
“From the attack on my life in Butler, Pennsylvania, last year, which killed a husband and father, to the attacks on ICE agents, to the vicious murder of a health care executive in the streets of New York, to the shooting of House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and three others, radical Left political violence has hurt too many innocent people and taken too many lives.”
 
If only the president’s four examples were all there was. Here are some others: 

• Transgender shooters murdering Christian children in Minnesota and Tennessee.
• Two young Israeli embassy workers gunned down by a Hamas sympathizer.
• Hundreds of attacks on churches and pro-life ministries.
• Firebombings of Tesla dealerships.
• The second assassination attempt against President Trump in Florida.
• The attempted assassination of Justice Brett Kavanaugh.

 
The FBI has found what it believes is the rifle used to kill Charlie Kirk. Multiple media outlets are reporting that law enforcement officers found “ammunition engraved with expressions of transgender and antifascist ideology inside the rifle.”
 
 
 
Left-wing Hate
 
After the shooting of Steve Scalise, many Democrats and media commentators said, “This is a wake-up call. We must tone down the rhetoric.” After the attempt on Donald Trump’s life in Butler, Pennsylvania, they again said, “We must tone down the rhetoric.”
 
Yet within days of these violent attacks, leftists in and out of public office go right back to the same dehumanizing, violent rhetoric. 
 
Calls to “tone down the rhetoric” presuppose that the Left wants to stop the violence. But many on the Left don’t want the violence to stop. That should lead us to another conversation. Our Christian faith is not a suicide pact. In the days and weeks ahead, we need to have this conversation.
 
In the meantime, here are some examples of the intolerance and vile hatred being spewed by the Left. 

• The New York Times used Kirk’s obituary to smear him as a “racist” and a “Christian nationalist.” 

• An assistant dean of students at Middle Tennessee State University mocked Kirk’s murder, writing, “Looks like ol’ Charlie spoke his fate into existence. Hate begets hate. ZERO sympathy.” She’s been fired. 

• Speaking on MSNBC, former George W. Bush strategist Matthew Dowd blamed Kirk for his own murder, claiming his “hate speech” led to “hateful actions.” MSNBC fired Dowd. 

• The transgender author of “Red Hood,” a new comic series, posted, “Thoughts and prayers you Nazi b-tch” and “Hope the bullet’s okay after touching Charlie Kirk.” DC Comics canceled the series after just one issue. 

• Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker actually blamed Donald Trump, saying, “I think the president’s rhetoric often foments [political violence].” So, something President Trump said caused some hater to kill Trump’s ally, Charlie Kirk? That only makes sense if the killer is a radical leftist. 

• On Bluesky, a left-wing social media platform, so-called “progressives” were demonstrating their “tolerance” by calling for other conservative leaders to be killed. 

• After the House of Representatives observed a moment of silence in memory of Charlie Kirk, Rep. Lauren Boebert asked to pray verbally on the House floor. But Democrats objected, shouting, “NO!” Once again, the Left’s hostility to faith and lack of common decency is on full display.

 
  
Tributes To Charlie
 
President Trump announced today that he will posthumously award Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. The president said, “Charlie was a giant of his generation, a champion of liberty, and an inspiration to millions and millions of people.”
 
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remembered Charlie Kirk as “A lion-hearted friend of Israel, he fought the lies and stood tall for Judeo-Christian civilization. . . His boundless pride in America and his valiant belief in free speech will leave a lasting impact.”
 
Reverend Franklin Graham wrote, “This young man loved his country and invested his time and energy in trying to make it the best it could be. He stood boldly for conservative values and defended free speech for all of us. Most importantly, Charlie loved the Lord Jesus Christ.”
 
Pastor Greg Laurie posted, “Charlie was such a courageous young man. He was not only a bold and unwavering voice for biblical truth in our culture but also a devoted follower of Jesus Christ, a husband, and a family man.”
 
Pastor Jack Hibbs wrote in a statement, “Charlie was known as an intellectual giant, a very compassionate young man, and one who was tirelessly devoted to this nation’s welfare and our glorious republic. I am humbled and blessed to have played a small role in Charlie’s discipleship, and I know nothing was more important to Charlie than knowing Jesus Christ.”
 
 
 
Never Forget
 
Today marks the 24th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.
 
It’s hard to remember the world before 9/11. Nearly a quarter of a century has passed.  The ripple effects of that national tragedy are still regularly felt.
 
No American woke up the morning of September 11th and imagined what the day might hold. Even watching the plane hit the first tower, it still seemed an impossibility that it was deliberate. Planned. Done with the intent to kill and destroy.
 
In those days following the attacks, we mourned together as a country, we flew flags with more pride than we ever had before, and we held each other with a kinship and in a solidarity that came easily in the wake of our national tragedy.
 
Now, 24 years later, the violence we are mourning is not only due to an attack coming from foreign soil but also now from violence coming from within. 
 
In the days following 9/11, the repeated phrase said over and over again was “never forget.” Never forget what was done to us. Never forget the devastation and tragedy of that day.
 
But this year, may we also never forget what bound us together—that we could be bound together, despite our many differences. Never forget who we are capable of being. A beacon of hope, a calm in the storm, a place where faith, family, and freedom are celebrated and protected.
 
Never forget that is the America we can be. And that is the America we must fight to preserve.