Trump claimed the ceremony, which will be held in the East Room, would be “a great celebration” and include an appearance by Erika Kirk, the widow of the late Turning Point USA cofounder and the organization’s newest CEO.

The ceremony will honor Charlie Kirk on what would have been his 32nd birthday. It also coincides with the National Day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk, a resolution that both the House and Senate passed in September.

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Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) sponsored the resolution in the upper chamber, where he claimed the conservative activist’s “legacy lives on” during a floor speech. The resolution was passed by unanimous consent.

Scott is expected to attend Tuesday’s ceremony and told the Washington Examiner, “I am proud to have led the effort to designate October 14^th as a National Day of Remembrance for Charlie Kirk.”

“And it is a great privilege to join Erika and the Kirk family, President Trump, and Americans across the nation to honor Charlie’s legacy as he is posthumously awarded the Medal of Freedom,” he continued. “Every American, now and for generations to come, will remember Charlie’s name and the lasting impact he made on this nation and on each of us – teaching us all that believing in the power of our ideas, peaceful discussion, and love for the nation can make it a better place.”

Charlie Kirk, as Trump described him, was “a friend of mine, a friend of all of ours, a friend of a lot of the people right here.”

“And we’re giving him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which is the highest honor you get outside of the Congressional Medal of Honor, one’s military, one’s civilian, but it’s the greatest honor,” he said on Friday.

The White House immediately rallied around Kirk and TPUSA after a gunman shot and killed him on Sept. 10 at Utah Valley University last month.

Trump and several Republican lawmakers immediately began to blame Democrats for encouraging violent political rhetoric that they claim helped lead to the conservative activist’s death.

The president signed an executive order in late September designating antifa, short for anti-fascist, as a domestic terrorist organization.

“Antifa is a militarist, anarchist enterprise that explicitly calls for the overthrow of the United States Government, law enforcement authorities, and our system of law,” the executive order reads. “It uses illegal means to organize and execute a campaign of violence and terrorism nationwide to accomplish these goals.”

Three days later, Trump signed a memorandum to counter domestic terrorism and organized political violence through a National Joint Terrorism Task Force and further collaboration among the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, and the Treasury.

Last week, Trump held a White House roundtable on political threats from antifa in the State Dining Room. According to the president, members of antifa “have been very threatening to people, but we’re going to be very threatening to them, far more threatening to them than they ever were with us.”

Vice President JD Vance guest-hosted The Charlie Kirk Show during which several White House staffers paid tribute, including chief of staff Susie Wiles and press secretary Karoline Leavitt, last month.

“Maybe the best way that I can contribute and the best way that I could honor my dear friend is to be the best husband that I can be, to be the kind of husband to my wife that he was to his,” Vance said about the 31-year-old conservative activist.

Many members of the administration attended Kirk’s memorial service in Arizona last month. In addition to the president and vice president, other administration attendees included War Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller.

“The evil murderer who took Charlie from us expected us to have a funeral today, and instead, my friends, we have had a revival,” Vance said during the memorial.

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Trump announced during an appearance on Fox & Friends in September that Tyler Robinson, the alleged gunman who shot and killed Kirk, had been captured.

“I hope he’s going to be found guilty, I would imagine, and I hope he gets the death penalty,” the president said.