US President Donald Trump embraces Erika Kirk during a memorial service for her husband, slain conservative commentator Charlie Kirk, at State Farm Stadium in Arizona on Sunday. Carlos Barria/Reuters
President Donald Trump wants the world to understand that Charlie Kirk’s killing will not temper him or induce him to mend the country’s divides.
Kirk’s memorial service in Arizona on Sunday was a remarkable hourslong eulogy for a life cruelly ended much too young, a glimpse at the future of the MAGA movement, and an unabashed religious revival.
It provided a moment that the country will long remember — an astonishing speech in which the assassinated 31-year-old’s widow forgave his killer.
But Trump bluntly and deliberately signaled that forgiveness and unity were for others, and that h