“Two planes full” of Trump administration officials and staff will travel with the president to attend Charlie Kirk’s funeral, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt revealed Saturday.
The immense interest in celebrating the life of the slain Turning Point USA founder underscores how deeply Kirk impacted leaders in the nation’s capital, she said.
“We’re actually taking two planes full of white House staff,” Leavitt told Fox News. “That just speaks to how many people [Kirk] touched at the highest levels of our government. And he will surely be honored and remembered tomorrow.”
The memorial service for Kirk – “Building a Legacy: Remembering Charlie Kirk” – will be held Sunday at 11 a.m. local time at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz.
The event is expected to draw 100,000 mourners and will include remarks from President Trump and many other high-level government officials.
“The president, the vice president, the speaker of the House – we have Cabinet secretaries who will be speaking,” Leavitt said of the memorial service, which has been given the highest-level security designation by the Department of Homeland Security.
Here’s the latest on the Charlie Kirk shooting in Utah
- Police identified Tyler Robinson, 22, as the alleged assassin who fatally shot Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10.
- Robinson was charged with aggravated murder, felony discharge of a firearm causing serious bodily injury and obstruction of justice.
- Law enforcement confirmed that Robinson was living with a transgender roommate, and communications between the two helping the feds catch the alleged assassin.
- Kirk, the 31-year-old Turning Point USA creator, was attending an event on his American Comeback Tour when he was fatally shot in the neck by a single shot.
- President Trump was among many who have called for the assassin to receive the death penalty.
- Kirk’s body was brought to Arizona from Utah on Air Force Two, accompanied by Vice President JD Vance, and taken to Phoenix’s Hansen Mortuary Chapel.
- Kirk’s funeral, which President Trump has promised to attend, is scheduled for Sept. 21 at State Farm Stadium, home of the Arizona Cardinals.
- Kirk, a rising MAGA star, is survived by his wife and two young children.
The White House predicts the conservative activist’s movement “will only grow bigger” in the wake of his murder.
“The historic MAGA movement that Charlie grew and helped lead will only grow bigger and stronger in the wake of his heinous assassination because people want to live like Charlie Kirk did and courageously carry on his noble mission,” White House spokeswoman Taylor Rogers told The Post.
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