President Donald Trump has drawn criticism for his response to the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, with the president blaming political opponents and threatening government action against them. Kirk, 31, was shot dead on September 10, 2025, while speaking at Utah Valley University during a campus tour event.
In a four-minute video recorded in the Oval Office, Trump paid tribute to Kirk but then used the moment to attack his political rivals. He made “wildly irresponsible assumptions about the still-unknown killer’s motives” and “explicitly threatened to bring down the force of government on his political opponents”, according to critics.
