President Donald Trump on Tuesday posthumously awarded Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom, saying he was entering the late conservative activist’s name “into the roster of true American heroes.”

Axar.az informs, citing CNN, Erika Kirk, Kirk’s widow and now the CEO of Turning Point USA, accepted the award on her husband’s behalf at the Rose Garden ceremony. Introducing the award, a military aide announced that the US honors Kirk as “a martyr for truth and freedom.”

Trump, who landed at the White House around 3 a.m. Tuesday after traveling to the Middle East, said, “I was going to call Erika and say, ‘Erika, could you maybe move it to Friday?’” But Trump said it was a “definite” to return in time for the ceremony Tuesday, which would have been Kirk’s 32nd birthday.

“I would not have missed this moment for anything in the world, nothing,” Trump said.

Turning to Trump after accepting the award, Erika Kirk said, “Thank you, Mr. President, for honoring my husband in such a profound and meaningful way, and thank you for making this event a priority with amid the peace process in the Middle East.”

It has been just over a month since Charlie Kirk was shot and killed while debating with students on his “America Comeback Tour” at Utah Valley University.

“He was assassinated in the prime of his life for boldly speaking the truth,” Trump said Tuesday, calling the assassination “a horrible, heinous, demonic act of murder.”