UPDATE: WATCH: Charlie Kirk shot while speaking, Trump confirms his death
The internet was flooded with prayers for conservative activist Charlie Kirk on word hitting the headlines he was shot in the neck at a Utah speaking event Wednesday.
Hundreds of pleas for God’s mercy and healing consumed X postings. President Donald Trump later eulogized Kirk, confirming his death at age 31.
“The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead. No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie,” Trump said.
But some didn’t join in the prayers.
Some demonized him, even as he lay hospitalized, fighting for his life.
It was MSNBC that took that position.
“MSNBC is ALREADY back to demonizing Charlie Kirk, just MINUTES after he was shot in Utah. Katy Tur called him ‘a divisive figure, polarizing, lightning rod. What ever term you want to use.’ THE LEFT IS FCKING DISGUSTING!!!!”
Actually, Tur read a statement from FBI chief Kash Patel in support of Kirk, then reverted to demonizing him.
MSNBC’s Katy Tur reads a statement from Kash Patel in support of Charlie Kirk and his loved ones, then immediately calls Kirk a “divisive figure, polarizing, lightning rod” pic.twitter.com/ROWsiIvbi8
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) September 10, 2025
Other memes that could be described accurately as demonic appeared. One showed a desk full of talking heads laughing uproariously.
Under the headline, “CHARLIE KIRK DEAD.”
CHARLIE KIRK DEAD pic.twitter.com/zb3WWdL71W
— ـ (@lecvsn) September 10, 2025
Anairuda posted a GIF of young ladies laughing and celebrating, under the statement, “They saying Charlie Kirk got shot…”
This, like one about Tur’s comments, were removed from X almost immediately.
me at the hospital watching Charlie Kirk’s datascope flatline pic.twitter.com/H3Elrg2QoN
— mel blanc (@veIvetines) September 10, 2025
Another showed a man enthusiastically whipping his hand against his hip, with the statement, “me at the hospital watching Charlie Kirk’s datascope flatline.”
Someone posted an image of Kamala Harris chortling over, “I love good news,” with the line, “pro-gun racist misogynist Charlie kirk dead by gun shot.”
Harris, herself, actually said she was “deeply disturbed” by the shooting, sending her prayers to Kirk and his family.
Let’s make one thing clear from the start: Charlie Kirk was the victim of a shooting in a country where he, along with other right-wing extremist influencers, have been inciting violence for years. — Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause.
— Andrea Junker (@Strandjunker) September 10, 2025
“Andrea Junker” wrote, “Let’s make one thing clear from the start: Charlie Kirk was the victim of a shooting in a country where he, along with other right-wing extremist influencers, have been inciting violence for years. — Kirk is neither a martyr nor a hero, he is a cause.”
The antics of the commenters, drew a quick conclusion, too.
“We can never look at the far-left the same again after what they did to Charlie Kirk … These people want to m*rder us.”
We can never look at the far-left the same again after what they did to Charlie Kirk.
These people want to m*rder us.
Just like their forefathers the Communists m*rdered 100 million people.
— PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) September 10, 2025
WATCH: Charlie Kirk shot while speaking, Trump confirms death