{"id":34625,"date":"2025-09-21T13:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T13:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/34625\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T13:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T13:51:07","slug":"charlie-kirk-latest-trump-and-officials-to-speak-at-memorial-in-arizona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/34625\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlie Kirk latest: Trump and officials to speak at memorial in Arizona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What you need to know about Kirk&#8217;s memorial servicepublished at 14:15 BST<\/p>\n<p>14:15 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Charlie Kirk speaking at a political rally\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4ab2f717-8033-40b9-83bc-1929df083ea0.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"5425\" height=\"3051\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The doors of the venue for today\u2019s memorial service are expected to open at 08:00 local time (16:00 BST).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The programme is set to begin at 11:00 local time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The memorial is being held at the home of the American football league NFL\u2019s Arizona Cardinals in State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, which can seat more than 63,000 people &#8211; expanding up to 73,000 for major events like today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The organisation says those paying tribute to Kirk on stage will include his wife, Erika, as well as members of the Trump administration, including US President Donald Trump and Vice-President JD Vance. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Guests have been required to register with Turning Point USA, with attendance on a first come, first served basis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For those unable to attend in person, the memorial is also being live-streamed via Kirk\u2019s social media account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What you need to know about Kirk&#8217;s memorial servicepublished at 14:15 BST 14:15 BST Image source, Anna Moneymaker\/Getty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-34625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}