https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/11/charlie-kirk-quotes-beliefs
Charlie Kirk in his own words: ‘prowling Blacks’ and ‘the great replacement strategy’
The far-right commentator didn’t pull his punches when discussing his bigoted views on current events
Chris Stein
Thu 11 Sep 2025 20.56 EDT
Charlie Kirk, the far-right commentator and ally of Donald Trump, was killed on Wednesday doing what he was known for throughout his career – making incendiary and often racist and sexist comments to large audiences.
If it was current and controversial in US politics, chances are that Kirk was talking about it. On his podcasts, and on the podcasts of friends and adversaries, and especially on college campuses, where he would go to debate students, Kirk spent much of his adult life defending and articulating a worldview aligned with Trump and the MAGA movement. Accountable to no one but his audience, he did not shy away in his rhetoric from bigotry, intolerance, exclusion and stereotyping.
Here’s Kirk, in his own words. Many of his comments were documented by Media Matters for America, a progressive non-profit that tracks conservative media.
On Race
If I see a Black pilot, I’m going to be like, boy, I hope he’s qualified.
– The Charlie Kirk Show, 23 January 2024
If you’re a WNBA, pot-smoking, Black lesbian, do you get treated better than a United States marine?
– The Charlie Kirk Show, 8 December 2022
Happening all the time in urban America, prowling Blacks go around for fun to go target white people, that’s a fact. It’s happening more and more.
– The Charlie Kirk Show, 19 May 2023
If I’m dealing with somebody in customer service who’s a moronic Black woman, I wonder is she there because of her excellence, or is she there because of affirmative action?
– The Charlie Kirk Show, 3 January 2024
If we would have said that Joy Reid and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson were affirmative action picks, we would have been called racists. Now they’re coming out and they’re saying it for us … You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person’s slot to go be taken somewhat seriously.
– The Charlie Kirk Show, 13 July 2023
On Debate
We record all of it so that we put [it] on the internet so people can see these ideas collide. When people stop talking, that’s when you get violence. That’s when civil war happens, because you start to think the other side is so evil, and they lose their humanity.
– Kirk discussing his work in an undated clip that circulated on X after his killing.
Prove me wrong.
– Kirk’s challenge to students to publicly debate him during the tour of colleges he was on when he was assassinated.
On Gender, Feminism and Reproductive rights
Reject feminism. Submit to your husband, Taylor. You’re not in charge.
– Discussing news of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement on The Charlie Kirk Show, 26 August 2025
The answer is yes, the baby would be delivered.
– Responding to a question about whether he would support his 10-year-old daughter aborting a pregnancy conceived because of rape on the debate show Surrounded, published on 8 September 2024
We need to have a Nuremberg-style trial for every gender-affirming clinic doctor. We need it immediately.
– The Charlie Kirk Show, 1 April 2024
On Gun Violence
I think it’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the second amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.
– Event organized by TPUSA Faith, the religious arm of Kirk’s conservative group Turning Point USA, on 5 April 2023
On Immigration
America was at its peak when we halted immigration for 40 years and we dropped our foreign-born percentage to its lowest level ever. We should be unafraid to do that.
– The Charlie Kirk Show, 22 August 2025
The American Democrat party hates this country. They wanna see it collapse. They love it when America becomes less white.
– The Charlie Kirk Show, 20 March 2024
The great replacement strategy, which is well under way every single day in our southern border, is a strategy to replace white rural America with something different.
– The Charlie Kirk Show, 1 March 2024
On Islam
America has freedom of religion, of course, but we should be frank: large dedicated Islamic areas are a threat to America.
– The Charlie Kirk Show, 30 April 2025
We’ve been warning about the rise of Islam on the show, to great amount of backlash. We don’t care, that’s what we do here. And we said that Islam is not compatible with western civilization.
– The Charlie Kirk Show, 24 June 2025
Islam is the sword the left is using to slit the throat of America.
– Charlie Kirk social media post, 8 September 2025
On Religion
There is no separation of church and state. It’s a fabrication, it’s a fiction, it’s not in the constitution. It’s made up by secular humanists.
– The Charlie Kirk Show, 6 July 2022
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I fully understand that half of you (you know who you are) will read this and think, "Yeah, what's wrong with any of that?"
This is the canyon, the actual gulf of America, that Trump has created and fomented over the last 10 years, all for his own political and monetary gain.
Kirk was just a tool for him. Trump thinks he was such a great guy because he was probably the only person in America who agreed with Trump 100% of the time. He worked hard to get Trump young voters and plenty of dollars from those young voters. And that's why Trump was all-in for him.
@Mott-The-Hoople saidagreed. Like how the world is a better place without Charlie in it.
Nothing wrong with stating facts
@Cliff-Mashburn said
Only problem I have with all those statements is the 10 year old not allowed an abortion (and I question the context and validity) , but I'm 100% on board with everything else.
18 minutes in.
@Cliff-Mashburn saidyes, going to a neanderthal gathering and crapping in their punch bowl is not a smart thing to do.
Careful where you say that, the right ain't putting up with your s..hi.t anymore.
Guy shouts "Death to Charlie Kirk" at a vigil for Charlie and gets his liberal twinky butt kicked.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMTMsceU8Os
i have no simpathy for that guy.
just like Charlie Kirk's death, i don't condone his beating, but i am not surprised.
@Suzianne saidCharlie Kirk’s Amerika is what I left behind when I emigrated.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/11/charlie-kirk-quotes-beliefs
Charlie Kirk in his own words: ‘prowling Blacks’ and ‘the great replacement strategy’
The far-right commentator didn’t pull his punches when discussing his bigoted views on current events
Chris Stein
Thu 11 Sep 2025 20.56 EDT
Charlie Kirk, the far-right commentator and ally of Donal ...[text shortened]... oung voters and plenty of dollars from those young voters. And that's why Trump was all-in for him.
Yeah, I know, good riddance. The feeling was mutual.
@Mott-The-Hoople saidThere is nothing wrong with stating the fact that Charlie Kirk was a racist and a white supremacist. There is something wrong with inciting people to implement racist public policies or to implement a political agenda based on white supremacist conspiracy theories. What is wrong with it is reducible to a single word: Nazism.
Nothing wrong with stating facts
@moonbus saidWhat leads you to believe he was a racist and a white supremacist, and to use Nazism to describe him? That rhetoric got him killed, Trump shot at, and others killed. When you label someone with such a horrible label, people think you need to be removed from the world, and you are justifying that with what?
There is nothing wrong with stating the fact that Charlie Kirk was a racist and a white supremacist. There is something wrong with inciting people to implement racist public policies or to implement a political agenda based on white supremacist conspiracy theories. What is wrong with it is reducible to a single word: Nazism.
@KellyJay saidshe just posted it dumb arse. lol... what a worthless liar you are.
What leads you to believe he was a racist and a white supremacist, and to use Nazism to describe him? That rhetoric got him killed, Trump shot at, and others killed. When you label someone with such a horrible label, people think you need to be removed from the world, and you are justifying that with what?
@KingDavid403 saidYou should have no problem quoting it.
she just posted it dumb arse. lol... what a worthless liar you are.
@KellyJay saidThere's quotes from his show in the OP with him saying we should stop immigration because the Democrats' plan was to reduce the percentage of whites in the US.
What leads you to believe he was a racist and a white supremacist, and to use Nazism to describe him? That rhetoric got him killed, Trump shot at, and others killed. When you label someone with such a horrible label, people think you need to be removed from the world, and you are justifying that with what?
Why can't he be accurately described as a white nationalist and a racist when he made public statements like that?
@KellyJay saidHis own words.
What leads you to believe he was a racist and a white supremacist, and to use Nazism to describe him? That rhetoric got him killed, Trump shot at, and others killed. When you label someone with such a horrible label, people think you need to be removed from the world, and you are justifying that with what?