{"id":301822,"date":"2025-10-15T16:50:27","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T06:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=301822"},"modified":"2025-10-15T17:30:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T07:30:44","slug":"trump-awards-posthumous-medal-of-freedom-to-charlie-kirk-on-his-32nd-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=301822","title":{"rendered":"Trump Awards Posthumous Medal of Freedom to Charlie Kirk on His 32nd Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?cat=7862\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Donald Trump\">Donald Trum<\/a>p posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to conservative activist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?tag=charlie-kirk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Charlie Kirk\">Charlie Kirk<\/a> during a White House Rose Garden ceremony on October 14, 2025, marking what would have been Kirk&#8217;s 32nd birthday. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, was assassinated on September 10, 2025, at age 31 while speaking at Utah Valley University; his widow Erika accepted the honor and shared touching family stories, including their young daughter&#8217;s birthday wishes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trump interrupted a Middle East trip to attend and signed a proclamation designating the date as the National Day of Remembrance for Kirk, highlighting his legacy in faith, freedom, and conservative activism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, was assassinated on September 10, 2025, at age 31 while speaking at Utah Valley University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":301823,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,7862],"tags":[18113,18457,11],"class_list":["post-301822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-donald-trump","tag-charlie-kirk","tag-turning-point-usa","tag-usa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301822"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301826,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301822\/revisions\/301826"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/301823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}