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Melania Trump Expresses Condolences After Kirk Shooting on 9/11 Day of Remembrance

Plus, the first lady is set for a royal visit with a special event planned with the Princess of Wales.

Sep 13, 2025
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First Lady Melania Trump attends a 9/11 observance ceremony with her husband, President Trump, at the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial in Washington, D.C. on Sept. 11, 2025. (Photo by Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images)

This week, First Lady Melania Trump accompanied her husband President Donald Trump to the September 11 observance at the Pentagon on Wednesday, 24 years after the terrorist attacks that took place in 2001. The service honored 184 people there and was commemorated by the president and first lady laying a wreath at the America’s Heroes Memorial. Remembrances also took place in New York City at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum at Ground Zero, where the names of nearly 3,000 victims were read. And in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, the victims of flight 93, which crashed in a field there, were also honored.

Later the same day, Mrs. Trump took to social media to express her condolences after the stunning political assassination of Charlie Kirk, a 31-year-old American conse…

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