President Donald Trump privately lamented the death of Charlie Kirk in a phone call with CNBC’s Joe Kernen, where he also said the MAGA activist could have become president one day.

Kernen revealed details of the emotionally-charged conversation on Thursday morning, hours after the Turning Point USA founder was killed by a single bullet at Utah Valley University in Orem. Trump said he was “devastated,” according to the Squawk Box host.

“Then he went on to say, ‘The country will heal,’” Kernen said on the show this morning. He also said Trump, 79, touted the 31-year-old as a future president.

“He said, ‘What a guy, what a great individual.’ He said he helped him greatly in the last election and thinks that Charlie Kirk could have been president someday; he was such a talented guy,” Ke

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