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President Donald Trump stated Friday he plans to journey to Israel and Egypt earlier than shortly returning to Washington, D.C., to honor the late Charlie Kirk with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian award.
Chatting with reporters within the Oval Workplace, Trump stated he’ll tackle Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, after which go to Cairo as a part of a visit marking the historic peace deal he secured between Israel and Hamas. He’s anticipated to return to the White Home to honor Kirk on Tuesday, Oct. 14 — which might have been the conservative activist’s thirty second birthday.
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“It isn’t simple for me to get again. It is a very fast journey, however I will be making two main stops, after which I will be on the airplane attempting to get again in time for Charlie,” Trump stated Friday. “They are going to have an excellent celebration on the White Home — within the East Room of the White Home.”
President Donald Trump speaks within the Oval Workplace of the White Home on Friday. (Shawn Thew/EPA/Bloomberg by way of Getty Pictures)
The President will arrive in Israel early Monday, the place he’s anticipated to ship an tackle on the Knesset and meet with not too long ago freed hostages, an Israeli official advised The Occasions of Israel. Below the peace deal, Hamas should hand over all 48 dwelling and deceased hostages inside a 72-hour window that started Friday evening native time.
“They’re getting them, they usually’re additionally getting the our bodies, roughly 28 our bodies. … It is a tragedy,” Trump stated. “… I will be going to Israel. I will be talking on the Knesset, I believe early on, after which I am additionally going to Egypt.”
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Egypt will host a global summit within the Purple Sea resort metropolis of Sharm el-Sheikh on Monday to finalize the peace settlement. Greater than 20 world leaders, together with Trump, are anticipated to attend, an Egyptian presidential spokesperson stated Saturday, in accordance with Reuters.
“I am going to go to Cairo, I believe that is the place we’re going, versus the place of the signing,” Trump advised reporters. “We now have a number of leaders from all around the world coming too. I do know they have been invited.”
Argentina’s President Javier Milei, Israeli Parliament (Knesset) Speaker Amir Ohana, and Israel’s President Isaac Herzog attend a session of the Israeli parliament on the Knesset headquarters in Jerusalem in June. (Menahem Kahana/AFP by way of Getty Pictures)
Trump is scheduled to return to Washington by Tuesday for the White Home ceremony honoring Kirk, who was assassinated Sept. 10 throughout an out of doors occasion at Utah Valley College.
“After which I am coming again, I imagine it is Tuesday evening for Charlie Kirk, a good friend of mine, a good friend of all of us, a good friend of a number of the folks proper right here,” Trump stated.
The president referred to as the occasion a “nice celebration,” noting that Erika Kirk, the activist’s widow, and lots of others will likely be in attendance.
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“We’re giving him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which is the very best honor you get exterior the Congressional Medal of Honor — one’s army, one’s civilian,” he stated. “However it’s the best honor, and Erika, his lovely spouse, goes to be right here and lots of people are going to be right here.”
Charlie Kirk was assassinated Sept. 10 throughout an out of doors occasion at Utah Valley College. (Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune/Getty Pictures)
Trump first introduced final month that he would award Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously.
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“I’ll quickly be awarding Charlie Kirk posthumously, the Presidential Medal of Freedom,” Trump stated on the time. “The day of the ceremony will likely be introduced, and I can solely assure you one factor. That we are going to have a really massive crowd. Very, very massive.”
On Thursday, Hamas agreed to a peace deal pushed by Trump to finish the battle in Gaza and return the hostages, two years after the terrorist community attacked Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
