{"id":224766,"date":"2025-09-13T23:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T23:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/224766\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T23:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T23:36:11","slug":"charlie-kirks-funeral-to-be-held-at-state-farm-field-on-sept-21-trump-to-attend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/224766\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Kirk&#8217;s funeral to be held at State Farm Field on Sept. 21, Trump to attend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The funeral for conservative activist Charlie Kirk is scheduled for Sept. 21 at State Farm Stadium, home of the Arizona Cardinals \u2014 and President Trump has already promised to attend.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/13\/business\/new-fundraising-record-reached-to-support-charlie-kirks-family\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Turning Point USA<\/a> invited supporters to join them \u201cin celebrating the remarkable life and enduring legacy of Charlie Kirk, an American legend,\u201d whose \u201clife was a testament to faith, courage, and conviction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump said\u00a0Friday\u00a0he was going to attend the funeral\u00a0after addressing the nation Wednesday night in an emotional tribute.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie Kirk\u2019s widow, Erika Kirk, shared an emotional post on Saturday. Erika Kirk<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo my great fellow Americans, I am filled with grief and anger at the heinous assassination of Charlie Kirk on a college campus in Utah,\u201d he said in a four-minute video posted\u00a0Wednesday\u00a0to his Truth Social.<\/p>\n<p>Kirk, 31, was shot and killed Wednesday while speaking at Utah Valley University as part of his American Comeback tour, launching a multi-day manhunt that ended with the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/13\/us-news\/yearbook-photos-show-alleged-kirk-killer-tyler-robinson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">arrest of alleged assassin<\/a> Tyler Robinson on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The president had ordered all American flags to fly at half-staff from Wednesday until Sunday at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Stay up to date on the shooting of conservative activist Charlie Kirk<\/p>\n<p>His widow,\u00a0Erika Kirk,\u00a0sobbed and held the hand\u00a0of her departed husband lying in an open casket, photos she posted to social media on Saturday showed.<\/p>\n<p>Charlie and Erika Kirk are seen in an undated social media photo. Instagram\/mrserikakirk<\/p>\n<p>A general view of the interior of State Farm Stadium Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love you, I love you, I know, I miss you so much,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/13\/us-news\/charlie-kirks-widow-erika-weeps-over-his-casket-in-emotional-photos\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">said the grieving wife<\/a> and only parent now of\u00a0a 3-year-old daughter and a 1-year-old son.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey have no idea what they just ignited within this wife. If they thought my husband\u2019s mission was big now,\u201d she added in a caption. \u201cYou have no idea.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe world is evil,\u201d she also wrote on social media.\u00a0\u201cThe sound of this widow weeping\u00a0echoes\u00a0throughout this world like a battle cry. I have no idea what any of this means. But baby I know you do and so does our Lord.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Charlie and Erica Kirk are parents to a 3-year-old daughter and 1-year-old son. Erika Kirk<\/p>\n<p>The couple had married in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Vice President JD Vance and second lady Usha Vance flew out to Utah to retrieve Kirk\u2019s body on Friday and joined Erika in transporting it back to the young family\u2019s home state of Arizona.<\/p>\n<p>Kirk\u2019s spouse has promised to continue her husband\u2019s mission at TPUSA, announcing Friday that their campus tour will continue throughout the fall.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will be even more tours in the years to come,\u201d she said.\u00a0\u201cThe movement is not going anywhere, and it will only grow stronger when you join it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON \u2014 The funeral for conservative activist Charlie Kirk is scheduled for Sept. 21 at State Farm Stadium,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":224767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,19719,69360,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-224766","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-charlie-kirk","10":"tag-funerals","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkcity","15":"tag-ny","16":"tag-nyc","17":"tag-united-states","18":"tag-united-states-of-america","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-us-news","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115199618917777874","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}