President Donald Trump ordered flags lowered to half-mast on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025, hours after the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. (Peter Pinedo/Fox News Digital)
President Donald Trump ordered flags lowered to half-mast on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025, hours after the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk. (Peter Pinedo / Fox News)
Trump issued an official proclamation on Wednesday, writing, "As a mark of respect for the memory of Charlie Kirk, by the authority vested in me as President of the United States by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby order that the flag of the United States shall be flown at half-staff at the White House and upon all public buildings and grounds, at all military posts and naval stations, and on all naval vessels of the Federal Government in the District of Columbia and throughout the United States and its Territories and possessions until sunset, September 14, 2025."
In the proclamation, he also directed that flags at all U.S. embassies, legations, consular offices, and other facilities abroad, including all military facilities and naval vessels and stations also lower their flags to half-staff in Kirk’s honor.
Earlier on Wednesday, Trump announced that Kirk had passed as a result of the shooting on Truth Social, writing, "The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead."
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A photo showing a U.S. flag flying at half-staff in Orem, Utah following the assassination of conservative figure Charlie Kirk on Sept. 10, 2025. (Samuel Lino)
Cox also invited all private citizens, businesses, and other organizations to join in honoring Kirk by lowering their flags.
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Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican, also announced on X that he ordered all flags in Oklahoma to half-staff to "honor the extraordinary life and legacy of Charlie Kirk."
"Charlie’s memory, that of a tireless champion for freedom, shall never die," wrote Stitt.
Peter Pinedo is a politics writer for Fox News Digital.
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