Honoring Charlie Kirk - October 14th, Hour 3
The Sean Hannity Show
Sean Hannity
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🗓️ 15 October 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
President Trump honored Charlie Kirk with the Presidential Medal of Freedom during a moving Rose Garden ceremony on what would have been Kirks 32nd birthday. The event saw Trump reflecting on Kirks impact, calling him irreplaceable for his founding of Turning Point USA and tireless advocacy for conservative values and American freedom. Sean Hannity's framing focused on Kirk as a singular force who inspired a new generation, despite opposition and threats. Erica Kirk, Charlies widow, accepted the medal with an emotional tribute, urging attendees and listeners to embody Charlies fearless devotion to liberty and truth. This moment matters as it underlines the ongoing influence of Kirks work and the continued fight for free speech and American principles.
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| 0:34.7 | Hey, it's Mark Simone here for Sean Hannity, the President Trump today presenting the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Charlie Kirk on what would have been his 32nd birthday. |
| 0:44.6 | Ceremony taking place right now at the Rose Garden. Here's President Trump. They fold. But it includes dismantling the networks that fund them and finance them, and we're finding out who those networks are. |
| 0:58.0 | We already know quite a few of them. |
| 1:02.0 | When you see these violent incidents and then you see people holding this gorgeous sign with beautiful wood, beautiful cardboard, wood, everything, everything's perfect, paint |
| 1:14.2 | job. And they're all the same. There are thousands of them. You know that they weren't made |
| 1:20.3 | in the basement out of love? They were made by anarchists. And in some cases, wealthy, I'll probably find some of my nice friends that are up there |
| 1:31.2 | being so nice to me especially lately they've been very nice but it surprises you who they may be |
| 1:39.0 | and you almost wonder why why why would they do it but they're our country, and we're really taking it back one by one. |
| 1:46.6 | If we didn't go into Los Angeles early on in the administration, the commissioner, the chief of police, Los Angeles said, |
| 1:55.0 | if they didn't go in, we would have lost our city. Now, they already lost 25,000 houses to fire because they wouldn't let the water |
| 2:01.0 | come in from the Pacific Northwest, which they should have done. I said, you better do it. They |
| 2:06.9 | didn't do it, and we had 25,000 homes where they had no water in the sprinklers, they had no |
| 2:12.6 | water in the fire hydrants. It would have been a different kind of a thing if they did what |
| 2:17.3 | they were supposed to do. |
| 2:18.4 | We had a break in. We broke in and had the water come down. They actually, they said for the |
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