President Trump Honors Charlie Kirk, Calls for Unity Through Success in Powerful Interview

In an exclusive, wide-ranging interview on Fox & Friends today, President Donald J. Trump paid heartfelt tribute to the late Charlie Kirk, outlined further action to combat crime in Democrat-run cities, heralded the successes of his America First agenda, and much more.

Here are key moments you missed:

• President Trump fondly remembered Charlie Kirk: “Don said to me, ‘He’s sort of like a son to you…’ He started this really during what would normally be college… and it’s become a movement… I’ve never seen young people, or any group, go to one person like they did to Charlie.”
  
  
• President Trump described the moment he learned of Kirk’s murder: “They said, ‘Charlie Kirk is dead.’ I didn’t know what they meant. I said, ‘What do you mean, dead?’ ‘Charlie Kirk was shot…’ I just told these people, ‘Get out. Just go.’”
  
  
• President Trump announced the National Guard will be deployed to Memphis to assist in fighting violent crime: “We’re going to Memphis. Memphis is deeply troubled… The mayor is happy and the governor of Tennessee, the governor is happy… We’re going to fix that just like we did Washington.”
  
  
• President Trump urged Americans to move forward rather than living in fear of political violence: “You have to go forward. You just have to go forward. You watch as closely as you can.”
  
  
• President Trump called on supporters to counter Radical Left violence with their votes: “You want revenge at the voter box.”
  
  
• President Trump recounted his visit to the New York Yankees game on the 24th anniversary of 9/11: “It was like the old days… We had a good time — and the fans were really nice… We got a tremendous applause because they love the country.”    
  
  
• President Trump outlined what will bring unity to the country: “The only thing that’s going to bring us together is tremendous success.”
  
  
• President Trump highlighted the economic success of his second term: “I love doing it because we’re going to Make America Great Again — it’s happening. Look at the stock market. We’ve had the stock market hitting record highs… never been higher.”
  
  
• President Trump spelled out the reality on big city crime: “Almost every city that’s in trouble is run by Democrats. Cashless bail is a disaster… has to be ended immediately.”
  
  
• President Trump touted the historic success of his Make D.C. Safe Again initiative: “Look at what we did in D.C. We took D.C. — probably the single-worst place in the country in terms of the country — [and now] there’s no crime. It’s a crime-free area.”
  
  
• President Trump mentioned investigations into organized agitation by the Radical Left: “We’re going to look into Soros because I think it’s a RICO case against him and other people because this is more than protests. This is real agitation; this is riots on the street — and we’re going to look into that.”
  
  
• President Trump praised the Supreme Court’s decisions on merit: “We have a decision on merit. In other words, this country is now a country of merit. You don’t have to be a woman or a man or a this or a that… it’s all based on merit now… That was a big, big decision.”
  
  
• President Trump lambasted Senate Democrats’ obstruction: “We have 200 people that left their jobs in order to come into the Administration, and the Democrats are blocking every one… “If I had George Washington and Abraham Lincoln — they came back from the dead and they wanted to go into the Administration — Schumer would not approve them.”
  
  
• President Trump scorched Fed Chair Jerome Powell: “Jerome ‘Too Late’ Powell. Too late on the interest rates… He’s a year late — and despite that, we have the best economy.”
  
  
• President Trump lamented the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine: “[My patience] sort of running out and running out fast — but it does take two to tango… When Putin wants to do it, Zelensky didn’t. When Zelensky wanted to do it, Putin didn’t… We’re going to have to come down very, very strong.”
  
  
• President Trump trumpeted the importance of his America First trade agenda: “We’ve been successful because of the tariffs. It’s given us a great power to negotiate with other countries that took advantage of us — tremendous power. Also, it has brought billions of dollars into the country. We have a big case… it’s now at the Supreme Court. That case is really important to win because it’s made us a rich country.”