Khloé Kardashian was lambasted by fans on Thursday night after she liked a post praising the right-wing provocateur Charlie Kirk after he was shot and killed the day before.
The 41-year-old reality star also commented with a set of praying-hand emojis and reposted a seemingly nonpartisan post about Kirk’s murder at 31 after he was shot in the neck by a gunman located on the roof of a nearby building at Utah Valley University.
The shooter is still at large as FBI Director Kash Patel traveled to Utah on Thursday amid criticism of the bureau’s inability to quickly apprehend the shooter and for his decision just a month earlier to fire the ‘legendary’ special agent in Utah who would have led the manhunt.
Many of Kardashian’s fans were vocally opposed to Kirk due to his anti-abortion, anti-immigrant, anti-transgender and pro-Second Amendment views.
The Daily Mail has reached out to Kardashian’s representative for comment but hasn’t yet received a response.
Fans appear to have spotted that her ‘like’ on a post from the Instagram account for Pray.com, which included a video of Kirk conversing with a fan at a speaking event in which he described his Christian faith.
Khloé Kardashian, 41, was lambasted by fans on Thursday night after she liked a post praising the right-wing provocateur Charlie Kirk after he was shot and killed the day before
Kirk died at 31 after he was shot in the neck by a gunman located on the roof of a nearby building at Utah Valley University on Wednesday. The shooter is still at large
Kardashian ‘liked’ and commented with praying-hand emojis on a seemingly nonpartisan Instagram post that featured him speaking about his Christian faith
Multiple followers preserved screenshots of the ‘like’ and her comment with three praying-hand emojis under the video, which didn’t discuss Kirk’s widely circulated political and social views.
They also shared screenshots of a post written by a South Carolina–based chiropractor — who has multiple posts espousing anti-vaccine views — that she shared in her Instagram Stories.
The seemingly non-partisan post bemoaned the country’s current state numbness toward acts of violence, which it declared had ‘nothing to do with left or right or red or blue.’
‘This is the worst thing she’s ever done in my eyes fr. Yuck!!’ wrote one disappointed commenter on Reddit.
Another user vehemently disagreed with the post Kardashian retweeted, writing, ‘This has EVERYTHING to do with politics.
One user claimed that the Keeping Up With The Kardashians star likely wouldn’t address the controversy over her ‘like’ and comment, but if she did, it would be ‘some flimsy “politics aside, he was a husband and a father” explanation.’
‘She sits up in her tower built up on the privilege of not needing to care about politics, they continued in a fury. ‘I will not waste an ounce of empathy on a man who didn’t bat an eye when innocent children were shot in their classrooms.’
They appeared to be referencing a 2023 speech in which Kirk said that some gun deaths were ‘worth it’ in order to preserve the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution.
Many of Kardashian’s fans were vocally opposed to Kirk due to his anti-abortion, anti-immigrant, anti-transgender and pro-Second Amendment views; pictured in December 2024 in Phoenix, Ariz.
They also shared screenshots of a post written by a South Carolina–based chiropractor — who has multiple posts espousing anti-vaccine views — that she shared in her Instagram Stories.
The seemingly non-partisan post bemoaned the country’s current state numbness toward acts of violence, which it declared had ‘nothing to do with left or right or red or blue.’
‘This is the worst thing she’s ever done in my eyes fr. Yuck!!’ wrote one disappointed commenter on Reddit
Multiple commenters slammed any potential claims that liking posts about Kirk had nothing to do with his politics
Another user replied with the claim that a ‘flimsy “politics aside, he was a husband and a father” explanation” was ‘essentially what’ Kardashian has reposted in her Instagram Stories
Others said they weren’t surprised about her response to a faith-centered post due to the reality star’s history of posting bible verses
Some critics referenced a 2023 speech in which Kirk said that some gun deaths were ‘worth it’ in order to preserve the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution; pictured in December 2024 with President Donald Trump
Some fans made it clear that they weren’t surprised about Kardashian’s response to the posts about Kirk’s killing
Several users labeled Kirk a ‘white supremacist’ based on multiple offensive comments he made in recent years questioning the intelligence and qualifications of Black people
They were dismayed that Kardashian had responded approvingly to a post about him despite having biracial children
‘You will never live in a society when you have an armed citizenry and you won’t have a single gun death. That is nonsense. It’s drivel,’ Kirk said at the Salt Lake City campus of Awaken Church on April 5, 2023. ‘But I am — I think it’s worth it. I think it’s worth 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. Nobody talks like this. They live in a complete alternate universe,’ he said.
Others said they weren’t surprised about her response to a faith-centered post due to the reality star’s history of posting bible verses.
One poster responded, ‘They say “politics aside” and [the] whole time the “politics” are that [Kirk] thinks the civil rights act was a mistake and gun deaths are worth it and necessary.’
Some fans made it clear that they weren’t surprised about Kardashian’s response to the posts about Kirk’s killing.
‘It’s always the ones you’d suspect the most,’ wrote one user.
‘Fork found in kitchen,’ joked another person.
Several users labeled Kirk a ‘white supremacist’ based on multiple offensive comments he made in recent years questioning the intelligence and qualifications of Black people.
‘like why are you mourning a man that said black people were better off in slavery… SHE HAS MIXED CHILDREN,’ responded another poster; Kirk is pictured with Vice President JD Vance (L)
They were dismayed that Kardashian had responded approvingly to a post about him despite having biracial children.
‘Tell us you’re crying for a white supremacist without telling us…’ read one comment.
‘like why are you mourning a man that said black people were better off in slavery… SHE HAS MIXED CHILDREN,’ responded another poster.
’empathizing with a white supremacist when you have Black children is a different kind of evil,’ added one user.
