A striking composite image shared by Trump’s assistant and White House Director of Communications Steven Cheung shows the live broadcast of Charle Kirk’s funeral taking over network television:

“God bless the United States of America,” Trump said to end his remarks.

“Could I please ask Erika to come out?” he added. Charlie Kirk’s widow complied, and the two shared a hug onstage.

She closed her eyes, bowed her head and gave the “I love you” sign in American Sign Language.

“Thank you very much, and may God be with you,” the president finished, as “God Bless America” played in the arena.

President Trump decried the “major losers” who have publicly celebrated Charlie Kirk’s death.

“You know the names,” he said about celebrities and politicians who have done so. “They’re major losers by the way.

“The same commentators who this week are screaming ‘fascism’ over the cancellation of a late-night host who had no talent and no ratings last week were implying that Charlie Kirk deserved what happened to him,” Trump said to cheers from the crowd, talking of course about ABC’s suspension Wednesday of “Jimmy Kimmel Live.”

Charlie Kirk’s widow Erika wore large, gold statement rings with “M” and “G” spelled in diamonds, in an apparent tribute to the two children she shared with the late conservative activist.

The Kirks have never revealed the names or even shown the faces of their son, 1, and daughter, 3, online — sharing sweet family photos only of their little heads turned away from the camera.

Turning Point USA senior advancement director Stacy Sheridan came under fire earlier in the ceremony after she mentioned both kids by name in her remarks, with many on social media angrily claiming she violated the family’s privacy.

Charlie Kirk was killed “for one reason, and for one reason only: he was winning,” Trump said.

“He was winning on college campuses” when he took his “Prove Me Wrong” pop-up tents to liberal “or as they like to call them, ‘progressive'” schools for open debate, Trump recalled.

Trump was meeting with the nation’s “biggest people” when he heard about Charlie Kirk’s assassination.

“I was in the midst of a very important conversation,” Trump said.

Despite the guest’s VIP status, the president says he told them, “You have to leave now. Right now. You have to leave.”

“It was like a surreal experience. Terrible, terrible,” Trump said.

President Trump just told a funny and illuminating story about Charlie Kirk — who he says more than once would call him up to ask if he’d come to an event with less than a day’s notice.

“And sometimes I would do it!” Trump declared, noting just how much of an influence the evangelical activist had, even over the president of the United States.

The last thing Charlie Kirk said to President Trump was a request that the White House send the National Guard to Chicago.

“Please sir, save Chicago,” Trump said Kirk told him.

“We’re gonna do that, we’re gonna save Chicago from horrible crime,” Trump said, referencing plans to send federal troops to the Windy City that he’s been talking about for weeks.

President Trump pointed out how Kirk was able to draw enormous crowds in both life and death.

“This is like an old-time revival, isn’t it?” Trump said.

“He could always draw a big crowd — look at this today, look what’s gone on. This is a big crowd,” Trump added, listing off the leading names in US government who came out to pay their respects to Kirk.

Dozens of people have taken the mic at the service that’s in its fifth hour.

“Charlie Kirk loved America with everything he had. And as we can see so clearly today, America loved Charlie Kirk,” Trump said.

“A great American hero, that’s what he is.”

“Today America is a nation in grief and a nation in shock, and a nation in mourning,” President Trump said, calling Charlie Kirk “One of the brightest lights of our time.”

“He died what was right for our nation,” Trump said. “Our greatest evangelist for liberty became immortal.”

“He’s a martyr now,” the president added. “None of us will ever forget Charlie Kirk. And neither now will history.”

“He will live for ever in the chronicle of America’s greatest patriots.”

President Trump walked on stage with a live performance of “God Bless the USA” from Lee Greenwood himself.

The patriotic song has long been a signature walk-out song for Trump at his rallies.

Trump applauded and looked on as Greenwood song and the crowd cheered.

“He wanted to save young men — just like the one who took his life,” Charlie Kirk’s widow just said.

“I forgive him,” Erika Kirk declared of his accused killer, without saying Tyler Robinson’s name.

She sobbed, gasping, into the microphone, steadying herself by holding the podium with both hands.

The whole stadium applauded her.

In a stunning moment, Erika Kirk proclaimed that her activist husband “was ready to die” — and explained what she meant.

“There was nothing he was putting off,” the widow said.

“There was nothing that was too hard or too painful. … Charlie died with incomplete work, but nothing that was unfinished business,” she said to roaring applause.

Erika Kirk, the widow of late conservative influencer and Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, brought the house down at State Farm Stadium at a packed remembrance ceremony honoring his legacy.

Wearing all white, and choking back tears as she slowly approached the podium on stage to raucous applause, she told the crowd of more than 70,000, “God bless all of you for coming here from all over the world to honor and celebrate my Charlie.”

“When you say ‘here I am, lord, use me,’ God will take you up on that. And he did with Charlie,” she said, dabbing at her eyes with a tissue.

“Eleven days ago, God accepted that total surrender from my husband and then called him to his side,” she continued.

“On the afternoon of Sept. 10, I arrived at a Utah hospital to do the unthinkable: To look directly at my husband’s murdered body. I saw the wound that ended his life, I felt everything you would expect to feel. I felt shock, I felt horror and a level of heartache that I didn’t even know existed,” she said mournfully.

“But there was something else, too. Even in death I could see the man that I love. I could see the single gray hair on the side of his head, which I never told him about — now he knows, sorry baby.”

She said she saw on his lips “the faintest smile,” which she said “revealed a great mercy from God in this tragedy,” and said at that moment she realized he hadn’t suffered.

Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk, stepped onto the stage to deliver her husband’s eulogy, stepping up to the podium slowly, taking a moment to take in the incredible scene of a packed arena mourning her husband.

She dabbed at her eyes with a tissue, looking up in an effort to blink back tears.

The newly appointed Turning Point USA CEO could be seen mouthing the words “I love you.”

Vice President Vance is speaking from behind a shield of bullet-proof glass at Charlie Kirk’s funeral.

“He was murdered for speaking the truth,” Vance said, calling Kirk a “friend” who wouldn’t let “evil” get the better of his beliefs.

“It is better to face a gunman than live your life afraid to face the truth,” Vance said.

Finishing his remarks, the vice president spoke straight to his longtime pal.

“I love you, my friend, we’ve got it from here,” he pledged.

President Donald Trump and tech tycoon Elon Musk were spotted sitting together at the funeral service for conservative activist Charlie Kirk — marking their first public interaction since their bitter fallout earlier this year. 

Musk, 54, was first seen alone in the stands at State Farm Stadium, where some 78,000 mourners gathered to honor the slain Turning Point USA Founder.

Footage posted later to social media showed Trump and Musk seated beside each other in the stands, talking and exchanging an earnest handshake.

The interaction comes months after Musk departed from his role as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE).

His exit followed public criticism of Trump’s sweeping “Big Beautiful Bill,” which the Tesla founder claimed undercut his budget-slashing efforts.

Donald Trump Jr. also got a dig in at both adversaries his father defeated in the race for the White House.

“To say that Charlie knew more about the Bible than me is the understatement of the century, folks,” DJT Jr. said.

“It’s like saying Donald Trump knows more about being president than Hillary Clinton or Kamala Harris,” he declared, pausing for hoots from the audience.

“No kidding!” he added for emphasis.

Trump Jr. shortly turned serious, recalling that Kirk once said in an interview that wanted to be “remembered by my courage for my faith.”

He said the assassinated activist “joined a long line of martyrs” killed for their beliefs when he was shot dead Sept. 10.

“I’m not widely known for being a sentimental guy,” Donald Trump Jr. said upon taking the mic.

“I know this because I’ve even gotten the call from that guy a couple times,” the eldest first son said, clearly talking about his father.

“‘You know Don,’ Don, you’re getting a little aggressive on social media, Don, relax,'” he said, perfectly and hilariously emulating his father’s tone, to roaring laughter from the audience.

Trump Sr. smiled and genially shook his head as he watched from the stadium suite.

Speaking at the funeral, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said that Charlie Kirk once asked him if he was afraid of dying.

“‘There are a lot worse things than death,'” RFK Jr. says he told the activist.

“And it’s if we lost our constitutional rights in this country and our children were raised as slaves. Sometimes the best thing we can ask for is to die with our boots on.

“And Charlie died with his boots on,” he said.

Listing Charlie Kirk’s roles and accomplishments, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth told the packed arena, that “more importantly, he was a true believer.”

“Fear god and fear no man: That was Charlie Kirk,” he said.

“I still have the [TPUSA] sticker: ‘Big government sucks,'” Hegseth said to laughter and cheers from the crowd.

“Charlie had big plans, but God had even bigger plans,” Hegseth said, noting that the slain activist’s last name is German for “church.”

In that spirit, “On this Sunday morning, I’d to think we’re all in Charlie’s church,” he said.

“The gates of hell could not prevail against him. He went into the darkest of places — he went into college campuses, where they said we couldn’t go.”

Former Army National Guard officer Hegseth revealed that Kirk wanted to go to the military academy at West Point, and while that didn’t work out, “his personal loss was our nation’s great gain.”

“Now is the time for us to step into the arena and stand as warriors for freedom and truth, and fight,” said United States Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.

Gabbard called on conservatives to “sharpen their weapons of truth” as she spoke at Charlie Kirk’s funeral, adding that he “lived what our founders envisioned.

“Freedom: the right to speak even when we disagree,” Gabbard said, adding that free speech was the foundation of the United States.

“Charlie stood in the arena armed with superior arguments,” she added. “He slayed ignorance.”

Secretary of State Marco Rubio opened his remarks in Charlie Kirk’s honor by admitting that years ago, he was skeptical of a young Kirk’s plan to bring his message to college campuses.

“‘Why don’t you start somewhere easier, for example, Communist Cuba”‘” Rubio joked that he’d told Kirk, getting laughter from the audience.

“Wisdom that sometimes takes a lifetime to accumulate, he had in 31 years,” Rubio said a few moments later.

FBI director Kash Patel and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard are in the crowd at Charlie Kirk’s solemn funeral, gathered with tens of thousands of others listening to the slain activist’s friends — from his Turning Point USA non-profit to the White House — reflect on his life and legacy.

Gabbard will speak soon at the service.

“‘Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.’ It’s true and you feel it here,” right-wing pundit Tucker Carlson said shortly after taking the mic.

He said it was tough to see tears from stoic Susie Wiles, who spoke just before.

“The main thing about Charlie and his message, he was bringing the gospel to this country,” Carlson said.

“He was doing the thing people hate, which is calling for them to repent. “He knew… the only real solution is Jesus.

“He had no hate in his heart, and I know that because I have a little hate in my heart,” the host said with a self-deprecating smirk.

“Any attempt to extinguish the light causes it to burn brighter,” Carlson said, an analogy for Kirk’s brutal killing.

The crowd cheered.

White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles — known as the Ice Maiden for her hard demeanor in Washington DC — teared up while talking about Charlie Kirk.

“He made the winning difference, I promise you that,” Wiles said while discussing Turning Points part in President Trump’s victory in the 2024 election.

“And I believe Charlie is still urging us on.”

“Countless individuals are currently in key roles across our government because of Charlie Kirk,” said White House official Sergio Gor.

Gor, director of the White House Presidential Personnel Office, called Kirk “one of my best friends” and “the spirit of MAGA.”

“Charlie knew the importance of hiring loyal patriots for this administration, and Charlie worked every single day to ensure we got the very best of them in the door,” he said.

“The world of politics can be full of transactional people. Charlie wasn’t one of them.”

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller is giving a rousing speech, lifting up Charlie Kirk’s widow Erika as a pillar of strength and forecasting a powerful movement that will carry on in his name.

“The day that Charlie died, the angels wept,” Miller said. “But those tears have been turned to fire in our hearts.

“Erika stands on the shoulders of thousands of years of women, of warriors. … [Kirk’s enemies] cannot imagine what they have awakened.

“You thought you could kill Charlie Kirk? You have made him immortal,” Miller proclaimed, without uttering the suspected killer’s name.

“You have no idea the dragon you have awakened. … We are on the side of goodness. We are on the side of God.”

Christian apologetics ministry founder Frank Turek described in harrowing detail the moments after Charlie Kirk was assassinated.

“I was standing 25 feet from my beloved friend,” said Turek, who explained that he had come to view Kirk as a son while mentoring him in Christianity in recent years.

Turek said he and the Turning Point security team ran to Kirk the moment he was shot and rushed him into a nearby SUV for transport to the hospital.

“No father would stand back and say no, you just take my son, take him, I’ll meet you at the hospital,” he said. “I want you to know that we did everything we could to save Charlie, but Charlie was already gone.”

American alt-right political activist Jack Posobiec III said Charlie Kirk’s assassination will go down in history as “the turning point” that leads to the “saving of western civilization.”

“Charlie Kirk died for you,” Posobiec said, comparing Kirk to Moses in a speech that drew cheers and applause from the crowd.

“Every single one of us will rise up,” he said. “We will never, ever let them forget the name Charlie Kirk.

“Our civilization will endure. The United States of America will endure. For Charlie, we will continue the mission. For Charlie, we will end the evil disease that split us and took Charlie from us. And for Charlie, Turning Point USA will last forever.”

President Trump waved to a capacity crowd of nearly 75,000 people inside State Farm Stadium as he arrived for Charlie Kirk’s funeral

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. arrived with his wife, Cheryl Hines, for Charlie Kirk’s funeral service.

RFK Jr. will speak later during the ceremony.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who is also set to speak, and Texas GOP Sen. Ted Cruz were spotted in the crowd.

In a rambling speech at Charlie Kirk’s funeral, former Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson said a communist conspiracy had been trying to “change the culture of America” for decades.

“They had a goal of gaining control of the media and Hollywood, making sexual perversion normal, natural, and healthy,” Dr. Carson said. “Pushing god out of our society and changing the gospel to the social gospel.”

At one point, he pulled out his phone to read a quote.

Like many GOP leaders who have credited Charlie Kirk for their position in politics, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) said, “There would be no congresswoman Luna without Charlie Kirk.”

She questioned the tens of thousands inside State Farm Stadium and countless others watching from outside and around the world: “Will you live boldly as Charlie did? Will you pray with unwavering faith as Charlie did?

“We are all Charlie Kirk now, and his legacy has just begun,” Luna concluded.

Nearly the entire stadium of over 73,000 attendees stood and said “amen” when right-wing political commentator Benny Johnson asked if Charlie Kirk had helped moved any of them “closer to Christ.”

“Look at this,” Johnson said as the crowds rose and cheered. “That is the revival spirit of Charlie Kirk’s life, and that is the power of martyrdom.”

“Charlie Kirk is a martyr in the true Christian tradition,” the conservative YouTuber added, later saying “Charlie’s life was a miracle.”

Charlie Kirk’s podcast co-host contended in his remarks just now that despite the activist’s packed schedule that barely left room to host their show, he still “read every single email” from its fans.

And “there would be email chains six or seven emails long,” that Kirk, 31, used to debate his detractors, Andrew Kolvet added.

“He knew he had a secret weapon, and it was you,” Kolvet told Kirk’s fans. “He never forgot about you, and he respected your wisdom.

“We called them campus tours, but they were really tent revivals, complete with a tent — amen,” he added of their tours where Kirk famously invited debaters to “Prove Me Wrong.”

Kirk was “the Biblical kind” of “prophet,” Kolvet said of his longtime business partner and friend.

“He was kind, he was loving, and you could hear in his voice that he desperately wanted the best for you.”

President Trump arrived at Charlie Kirk’s funeral to cheers from crowds watching outside State Farm Stadium.

The president’s motorcade arrived at the Arizona stadium around noon after he flew into the state onboard Air Force 1.

“USA! USA!” crowds cheered as the president drove by, video from the scene showed.

Trump and Vice President Vance are both expected to speak at the sell-out event.

Stacy Sheridan, Turning Point USA’s senior advancement director, honored Charlie Kirk, her voice breaking at times as she remembered him as a boss and a friend.

“Charlie, we will miss your words of wisdom, your high pitched laugh — which was kind of awkward — and your voice that would always soften when you spoke to Erika and your children,” Sheridan said, through tears.

“I promise you, we’re going to make TPUSA so big, it will reach you in heaven.

“In Charlie’s words: ‘Let’s get to work everybody. We have a country to save,” she said.

At the start of Charlie Kirk’s memorial service, each seating section in State Farm Stadium was blanketed by a different color as attendees waved signs paying tribute to him.

The capacity crowd — around 73,000 inside the stadium and over 200,000 including overflow — were given signs to hold up, printed with messages like “Never Surrender,” “This is our Turning Point” and “Here I am Lord, send me. Isaiah 6:8,” featuring a drawing of the late conservative influencer.

The remembrance service is being attended by dozens of top elected officials, members of President Trump’s cabinet, as well as the president himself, Vice President JD Vance and many more, all of whom are expected to address the audience.

Longtime Turning Point employee Mikey McCoy called Charlie Kirk a “martyr” whose conservative Christian movement will only grow stronger because of his death.

“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule has just begun,” said Mike McCoy, who recalled cancelling his college plans at 18-year-old to work for Kirk instead.

“Charlie was not silenced. His movement is only beginning. The voices of millions globally have been awakened, furthering his cause and mission far beyond anyone’s comprehension,” McCoy said, adding that Kirk’s followers would press his cause in service of “God almighty alone.”

Charlie Kirk’s longtime Turning Point USA colleague and podcast co-host Tyler Bowyer is speaking now about the early days of TPUSA, and a young Kirk’s relentless enthusiasm and dedication.

They “showered in airport bathrooms” and ate dinner at midnight while they built his non-profit from the ground up, he said.

“Charlie, my friend, I’m happy to report we’re standing in your vision,” Bowyer said at the end of his remarks.

“We love you.”

“Charlie Kirk was scheduled to speak at my husbands upcoming memorial,” said conservative philanthropist Rebecca Dunn.

“Instead I am here speaking at Charlie’s memorial,” said Dunn, who recounted meeting Kirk over a decade ago and promising to donate $25,000 to a Turning Point event if Kirk could first raise as much himself.

“Two days later, Charlie called to say that he had raised the money,” she said, to cheers from the crowd. “He was 20 years old, and yet he met out challenge.”

DJ Daniel, a Houston, Texas 13-year-old with spinal cancer who went viral after being honored at Trump’s joint session of Congress in March, was in attendance at Charlie Kirk’s funeral service Sunday.

“Honestly based on who did this, that was wrong because he didn’t do nothing wrong to nobody,” he said of Kirk, calling him “very great.”

“But I don’t see why anybody would kill him. That is just wrong. They really need to stop the violence.”

Daniel was made an honorary police officer across more than 200 police departments around the country, fulfilling a childhood dream, during a swearing-in ceremony with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police in April.

He was one of over 200,000 supporters and mourners who flocked to State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Ariz. for a remembrance ceremony in honor of the slain 31-year-old Turning Point USA founder.

Dr. Larry Arnn, President of Hillsdale College in Michigan, spoke next, about how Charlie Kirk’s memory will live on — and noted the same can’t be said for his killer, without saying the name of suspect Tyler Robinson.

“Charlie lives on; the assassin will die,” Arnn said to applause from the capacity crowd of more than 70,000.

The educator announced he has set up a scholarship for Kirk’s two children, and revealed the college will give his widow, Erika, an honorary degree.

Tech billionaire and former DOGE head Elon Musk was seen in attendance shortly before services got underway at Charlie Kirk’s funeral.

Charlie Kirk’s pastor Rob McCoy is first to speak, saying Kirk “called me his pastor, but I called him my friend.”

He spoke about traveling with Kirk to South Korea just two weeks ago to speak with “persecuted Christians” there, who he said are now saying, “I am Charlie Kirk” and “standing for freedom across that country.”

“He wasn’t a very good congregant,” McCoy joked of the Turning Point USA co-founder. “He was on the road 320 days a year.”

McCoy said he brushed it off when Kirk would call him “America’s pastor,” but noted just now that for this moment as he speaks at the slain activist’s funeral, “he proved me wrong.”

Right-wing pundit Tucker Carlson and far-right influencer Laura Loomer are here:

Bagpipers are playing “Amazing Grace” as Charlie Kirk’s funeral begins inside State Farm Stadium, with a capacity crowd of more than 70,000.

Another estimated 130,000 mourners are at a second arena next door, or outside.

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) arrived at Charlie Kirk’s funeral with former GOP Senate candidate from Arizona Kari Lake, whom President Trump appointed to head Voice of America, the taxpayer-funded international media outlet.

Here’s the list of people scheduled to speak at Charlie Kirk’s funeral, not necessarily in this order. We’re on the lookout for a funeral service program but haven’t seen one yet.

• President Donald Trump
• Vice President JD Vance
• Erika Kirk, Charlie’s widow
• White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles
• Secretary of State Marco Rubio
• Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
• Secretary of War Pete Hegseth
• Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard
• Donald Trump Jr.
• Tucker Carlson
• White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller
• US Ambassador to India nominee Sergio Gor

Vice President JD Vance shared a video on X this morning with scenes from Sept. 11, when he helped carry “dear friend” Charlie Kirk’s casket toward Air Force Two.

Vance and his wife, second lady Usha Vance, stood by Kirk’s widow Erika’s side the day after the activist’s death as his body was transported from Utah back home to Phoenix.

The seats at the top level of State Farm Stadium are filling up with about an hour to go until Charlie Kirk’s funeral service begins.

A police officer outside told our reporter about an hour ago that they would start turning people away at the door.

The arena has a capacity of 73,000. Organizers expecting a colossal turnout reserved the Desert Diamond Arena next door for overflow, but that only holds 20,000 — not enough for even half of the sea of 200,000 mourners here.

Red “We are Charlie Kirk” bracelets and posters with the Bible verse “Here I am, Lord, send me!” were placed on seats at Charlie Kirk’s funeral, a photo from inside shows.

The posters are interspersed with others featuring a photo of Kirk and “Never Surrender,” a tagline of his podcast that has become a rallying cry in the wake of the right-wing activist’s death.

GLENDALE, Arizona — A cop said there’s been a lot of medical emergencies as temps climbed to near 90 degrees by 9 a.m. local time (PT).

“A lot of people are not prepared for the heat,” he said in front of a wall of about a dozen people receiving medical attention outside State Farm Stadium.

A severe weather alert is in effect for the area. The forecasted high is 95 degrees but will feel like 96.

It’s having an effect on the mood, as some people are getting peeved about line cutters at the huge MAGA Christian rally, where mourners are decked out in MAGA hats and T-shirts reading “I am Charlie.”

Members of the Westboro Baptist Church, who never squander a chance to bring their repugnant gospel to a funeral, assembled outside Charlie Kirk’s memorial service with sick protest signs as hundreds of thousands gathered to mourn the slain Turning Point USA founder.

A small group of about a half-dozen church members stood in a cordoned-off area of the parking lot waving signs reading, “God sent the shooter in fury,” and “America is doomed.”

The unhinged Kansas-based religious sect is known for despicable protests of military funerals and other similar somber events.

“These people are coming here to worship a dead man who didn’t preach Christ. He taught this world the Satanic lie that is free will, as if people in general have chosen Christ. The father has to draw you to him,” Zion Phelps-Roper, 19, of the Westboro Baptist Church claimed about Kirk in a stumbling rant.

Nearby, in the same designated “free speech area” of the stadium parking lot, a separate group brandished a variety of anti-Kirk messages, including one woman holding a reprehensible sign reading, “It should be quick; it should be televised. Rot in Hell.”

Asked why she was at the event, she smiled and said, “Because I hate Charlie and I’m standing up for what I believe in.”

When The Post asked her to elaborate on why she hated him, she said, “Because he’s just an a–hole and I like when bad things happen to bad people.”

The woman declined to identify herself but said she was from Glendale.

State Farm Stadium is full and they’re about to turn people away, a cop on the scene just told us.

At least 200,000 people are here.

GLENDALE, Arizona — Pro-Trump rapper Forgiato Blow performed a new song he wrote to honor Charlie Kirk as massive lines of supporters waited to enter his funeral service in the parking lot of State Farm Stadium.

“America they hit a turning point and we ain’t turning back. They’re laughing at you dying while they’re burning flags,” Blow rapped, wearing a red MAGA hat and a white t-shirt emblazoned with the late Turning Point USA founder’s face above the word “freedom.”

Blow said he was “speechless” when he heard the news Kirk had been assassinated, and that he wrote the rap, called “I Am Charlie” as a tribute to the slain conservative icon.

“The youth out here, the children out here, MAGA supporters out here, people who love god out here, people who love free speech out here — that’s what Charlie Kirk means to me.”

One person suffered a medical emergency and had to be carried out of the crowd in the parking lot of State Farm Stadium this morning, where tens of thousands had gathered by the time doors opened at 8 a.m. local time (PT).

GLENDALE, AZ — Our Post photographer who has covered many GOP events and rallies says “there is a very Christian feel” at the funeral for Charlie Kirk, an evangelical Christian since childhood.

“Different than your normal MAGA rally,” our photog says.

More than 200,000 people are now expected at Charlie Kirk’s funeral, police say.

That doubles an earlier estimate of 100,000.

A gospel band is playing onstage inside the Arizona Cardinals’ State Farm Stadium as mourners wearing red, white and blue have begun flooding the stands.

Watch our livestream of Charlie Kirk’s funeral, with the service set to begin at 11 a.m. PT:

A huge crowd gathered in the stadium parking lot early this morning ahead of Charlie Kirk’s funeral broke out in prayer in the pre-dawn hours, shouting, “God is good,” “God is wonderfully good.”

An attendee caught the scene on video.

The Arizona Department on Transportation is warning drivers to expect heavy traffic near State Farm Stadium in Glendale this morning as tens of thousands of mourners flood the arena to remember Charlie Kirk.

Some roads into the stadium were closed around 7 a.m. local time (10 a.m. ET), according to the DoT’s live map.

Airspace around the stadium is closed, the Phoenix FBI announced, warning that anyone operating drones in the restricted area can be prosecuted.

GLENDALE, Arizona — Tens of thousands have gathered outside the State Farm Stadium in Glendale Arizona ahead of Sunday’s service to remember conservative influencer Charlie Kirk.

Dressed in their red, white and blue “Sunday best” — as requested by Turning Point USA in advance of the event — throngs of fans and supporters packed the area outside the stadium while waiting to get in.

Greg Waters, 71, of Bishop, California, said he listened to Kirk’s podcast every day.

“He’s like a son to me. We are connected through the blood of Jesus Christ,” he told The Post.

“The problem the world has is it doesn’t understand the spiritual connection.”

He added: “I think the more people who turned out shows that he had more impact than people believed. They need to have a bigger stadium.”

Waters said he walked two miles to get to the stadium in time to line up for the memorial service.

Some attendees told The Post they arrived as early as 4 a.m. to beat the crowds, while some gave up on the overflowing parking lot and walked as much as two miles from their vehicles.

Betty Santasiero, of Pinal County, Arizona, 56, came wearing a red “I am Charlie Kirk” shirt.

“It’s just important to keep an open dialogue especially since I’m from New Jersey…and we have friends on both sides,” she said.

State Farm Stadium, where the NFL’s Arizona Cardinals play, holds as many as 73,000 for mega-events. Organizers expected the crowd to be greater than the capacity, so the Desert Diamond Arena next door, which can hold an additional 20,000, was also reserved.

Grieving widow Erika Kirk has revealed she wears the blood-stained pendant of St. Michael that her husband Charlie was wearing when he was shot.

The small icon, with blood traces in the crevice of the cross, was ripped from Kirk’s body by medics as they attempted to stop the bleeding after he was shot at a Turning Point USA event in Utah less than two weeks ago, Erika told the New York Times.

Erika, 36, revealed that she and others in her husband’s circle had heard him suggest before that he could die a violent death.

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A massive remembrance service will be held for slain conservative influencer Charlie Kirk on Sunday, with an expected attendance of tens of thousands and featuring a who’s who of Republican luminaries like President Trump and Vice President JD Vance, who are all expected to speak.

Kirk, 31, a married father of two young children and co-founder of Turning Point USA, was shot and killed Sept. 10 as he engaged with an audience at Utah Valley University during the kind of spirited debate that made him famous.

The shooting sent shockwaves throughout the country across the political divide. Trump, a personal friend of Kirk who frequently said he thought of him like a son, ordered American flags to be flown at half-staff after his death.

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The armed man accused of bringing a gun and a knife into the Arizona stadium where conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s funeral will be held posed no threat and was merely conducting a security sweep ahead of Sunday’s services, Turning Point USA confirmed.

Joshua Runkles – arrested Friday inside State Farm Stadium for allegedly posing as a cop – was on site “doing advance security for a known guest” at the memorial, expected to draw more than 100,000 attendees, including VIPs such as President Trump.

“We do not believe this person was attempting anything nefarious, however the advance was not done in proper coordination with the TPUSA security team or US Secret Service,” TPUSA spokesman Andrew Kolvet said on X Saturday.

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“Two planes full” of Trump administration officials and staff traveled with the president to attend Charlie Kirk’s funeral, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt revealed Saturday.

The immense interest in celebrating the life of the slain Turning Point USA founder underscores how deeply Kirk impacted leaders in the nation’s capital, she said.

“We’re actually taking two planes full of white House staff,” Leavitt told Fox News. “That just speaks to how many people [Kirk] touched at the highest levels of our government. And he will surely be honored and remembered tomorrow.”