President Donald Trump said how slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk was seen as "son" to him him during an interview with Fox News Channel on Friday.

Mary Trump responded to comments made by the president after a reporter asked how he is holding up following the death of Charlie Kirk.

President Trump asked for updates and met with advisers in the Oval Office before recording a four-minute video in which he blamed rhetoric from the “radical left” for the killing.

From the moment an assassin shot Charlie Kirk, my social-media feed began filling up with people decrying the attack. The sentiment of horror—both at the murder itself and at what it portended for American political culture—was overwhelming and cross-ideological.

President Donald Trump mourns Charlie Kirk's death after campus shooting and commemorates 9/11 anniversary at Pentagon and Yankees game in New York.

Mr. Kirk, 31, the founder of a right-wing youth movement, was shot while speaking at Utah Valley University on Wednesday.

Charlie Kirk's killer was arrested overnight in Utah, officials announced Friday morning. Tyler Robinson, 22, is in custody based in part on a tip from his own father and will face charges for murdering the conservative political activist earlier this week.

Charlie Kirk understood — perhaps more so than anyone except Donald Trump himself — how power really operates within the MAGA movement. As the myriad tributes to Kirk in the day since his death have captured,