Charlie Kirk | Media Matters for America

Charlie Kirk was a right-wing provocateur and founder of Turning Point USA who was fatally shot on September 10, 2025. He had a history of pushing right-wing hoaxes and conspiracy theories.

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Media Matters weekly newsletter, June 6

06/06/25 10:45 AM EDT
Charlie Kirk guest host says Pride Month is “cultural tyranny” and “we should just get rid of it altogether”

06/03/25 3:01 PM EDT
Charlie Kirk: “Yesterday, when I was with President Trump ... I said you need to crush Harvard in its current form”

05/29/25 1:30 PM EDT
Charlie Kirk says David Hogg looks like “a survivor from a concentration camp”

05/27/25 12:42 PM EDT
Charlie Kirk: “Maybe we just got to make an example out of Thom Tillis”

05/16/25 2:52 PM EDT
Charlie Kirk says “I think we gotta keep SALT out of the way” of the budget bill

05/16/25 2:42 PM EDT
Charlie Kirk: “I was just texting with the White House staff today. ... I want to get my marching orders, and they were really quick to respond.”

05/16/25 2:25 PM EDT
Media Matters weekly newsletter, May 16

05/16/25 10:45 AM EDT
Charlie Kirk: “I did everything I could to make [Ed Martin] the permanent D.C. US attorney, but Thom Tillis from North Carolina had other plans”

05/15/25 1:01 PM EDT
Charlie Kirk: “These are members of Congress that stormed into a federal ICE facility despite warnings. They should absolutely be charged for this.”

05/12/25 1:39 PM EDT
Charlie Kirk: “Mr. Prevost, the new pope, was retweeting George Floyd propaganda”

05/08/25 2:30 PM EDT
Charlie Kirk complains about Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) opposing Ed Martin's nomination for US attorney in DC

05/07/25 1:29 PM EDT