Erika Kirk will be one of President Trump’s “special guests” for Tuesday night’s State of the Union address.
“The president will call on Congress to ‘firmly reject political violence against our fellow citizens’ with Charlie Kirk’s widow in the chamber,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt stated.
Erika Kirk will be one of President Trump’s Special Guests at the State of the Union
“The president will call on Congress to ‘firmly reject political violence against our fellow citizens’ with Charlie Kirk’s widow in the chamber.”https://t.co/7DOmUAVVbz
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) February 24, 2026
More from the New York Post:
Erika Kirk took over the leadership of Turning Point USA after her husband was shot and killed during a speaking event at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10, 2025.
President Trump was among the nearly 100,000 who attended a blockbuster memorial service for the 31-year-old at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz.
Mary Margaret Olohan, White House correspondent for The Daily Wire, first reported the development.
NEWS: Erika Kirk will attend the State of the Union on Tuesday evening in D.C. as a special guest of President Donald Trump, @realDailyWire can first report.https://t.co/NetG6FTn34
— Mary Margaret Olohan (@MaryMargOlohan) February 24, 2026
The Daily Wire shared further:
Trump’s State of the Union address will focus on ending the political violence that has plagued the country in recent years.
That attack came only weeks after trans-identifying shooter Robin Westman killed Catholic schoolchildren in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during a church shooting. And that attack came just two years after another in which a trans-identifying killer targeted Christian school children in Nashville.
Earlier this month, another transgender-identifying attacker in Canada opened fire on a rural school in British Columbia, killing nine and injuring dozens, and only last week, yet another man who identifies as a woman opened fire at a high school hockey game in Rhode Island.
These instances of transgender violence do not include the politically motivated attacks on the president himself.
Ahead of the 2024 election season, a gunman attempted to kill President Trump as he spoke in Butler, Pennsylvania, narrowly missing the president’s head and grazing his ear with a bullet. Soon afterward, authorities arrested another gunman in Florida attempting to kill the president at his golf course. And on Sunday, the Secret Service shot and killed a man who entered Mar-a-Lago carrying a gun after breaking through the security perimeter.
“In the middle of the night while most Americans were asleep, the United States Secret Service acted quickly and decisively to neutralize a crazy person, armed with a gun and a gas canister, who intruded President Trump’s home,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Sunday.