{"id":68645,"date":"2026-03-10T15:45:41","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T20:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/trump-names-erika-kirk-to-key-advisory-board-of-us-air-force-academy\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T15:45:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T20:45:41","slug":"trump-names-erika-kirk-to-key-advisory-board-of-us-air-force-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/trump-names-erika-kirk-to-key-advisory-board-of-us-air-force-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump names Erika Kirk to key advisory board of US Air Force Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Widow of murdered rightwing activist Charlie Kirk replaces husband on 16-member panel of military training facility<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has appointed Erika Kirk, the widow of murdered rightwing activist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/charlie-kirk-shooting\">Charlie Kirk<\/a>, to a key advisory board of the US Air Force Academy.<\/p>\n<p>The 37-year-old joins a number of other loyalists to the president on the 16-member panel of the academy\u2019s board of visitors, which according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usafa.edu\/about\/bov\/\">its website<\/a> \u201cinquires into the morale, discipline, curriculum, instruction, physical equipment, fiscal affairs, academic methods and other matters\u201d of the Colorado Springs military training facility.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/10\/erika-kirk-board-us-air-force-academy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Widow of murdered rightwing activist Charlie Kirk replaces husband on 16-member panel of military training facility Donald Trump has appointed Erika Kirk, the widow of murdered rightwing activist Charlie Kirk, to a key advisory board of the US Air Force Academy. The 37-year-old joins a number of other loyalists to the president on the 16-member &#8230; <a title=\"Trump names Erika Kirk to key advisory board of US Air Force Academy\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/10\/trump-names-erika-kirk-to-key-advisory-board-of-us-air-force-academy\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump names Erika Kirk to key advisory board of US Air Force Academy\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}