The United States must bring God back to America and actively promote religion, President Donald Trump urged in Glendale, Arizona, on Sunday.
“We have to bring religion back to America because without borders, law and order, and religion, you really don’t have a country anymore,” he stated. “We want to bring God back into our beautiful USA.”
The president made the remarks during the Charlie Kirk Memorial Service, attended by Vice President JD Vance, senior government officials, Republican leaders, and thousands of Kirk’s admirers.
The US leader revealed that he was in the Oval Office with some “very powerful people”, having an important conversation about the country, when the news of Kirk’s shooting broke.
Trump condemned the “jubilation” of Kirk’s demise and accused the Democrats of orchestrating political violence and colluding with their allies in the media to “silence” Kirk due to his growing popularity.
“Charlie’s murder was not just an attack on one man or one movement; it was an attack on our entire nation…an assault on our most sacred liberties,” he bridled. “The gun was pointed at him, but the bullet was aimed at all of us.”
Trump said Charlie was killed for the ideas most people in the arena and elsewhere believed in, declaring that the assassin failed “because Charlie’s message has not been silenced; now it is bigger, better, and stronger.”
The president noted that the more success Kirk had, the more dangerous his mission became as he faced bomb threats, radicals who tried to shout him down, and angry mobs of thugs he called “paid agitators.”
Trump praised the Turning Point USA Founder for contributing to his victory in 2024, saying he had the most youth support more than any Republican candidate in the history of American elections.
“As president, many people ask me for things, but Charlie was one of the few who always gave more than he took,” he told the gathering. “He was a giver much more than a taker.”
Trump described Kirk as “a missionary with a noble spirit and a great purpose, a master builder of people, and a great American hero,” and announced his plan to bestow on the deceased the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
However, the president expressed his disagreement with Kirk’s perspective of wishing opponents the best: “I hate my opponents and I don’t want the best for them. I am sorry, I can’t stand my opponents.”
