In the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination on September 10, 2025, President Trump took to the Oval Office, his voice trembling with the weight of profound personal loss – a friend, a confidant, a conservative firebrand cut down in his prime at just 31. With righteous fury, he pinned the barbaric act squarely on the “radical left’s” toxic rhetoric, accusing them of inciting violence against patriots like Kirk. “This hatred will not be forgotten,” he vowed, his eyes blazing with the kind of gravitas that could almost make you forget he once pitched steaks on the QVC shopping channel. The nation, for a fleeting moment, saw a president gripped by grief for a man he called family, promising that the killer would face swift, unyielding justice.
But oh, how the plot twists. Mere hours after Trump’s fiery address, the suspect was unmasked: Tyler Robinson, a 22-year-old white Christian from Utah, a registered Republican with no whiff of “radical left” DNA – not a trans activist, not an immigrant, not even a rogue barista with a grudge. The bullet casings, etched with ironic “Bella ciao” memes and gaming references, screamed more 4chan troll than Antifa manifesto. The red-hot narrative of leftist villainy that had set MAGA ablaze – complete with hashtags like #BlameTheLeft trending worldwide – fizzled faster than a knockoff sparkler, leaving an awkward silence where the outrage machine once roared. The irony was thicker than the gold leaf Trump surely plans for his next Mar-a-Lago renovation.
And then, the pièce de résistance. Asked by a reporter how he was coping with the loss of his dear friend, Trump delivered a response so bizarre it could only be described as peak Trump. “I think very good,” he beamed, gesturing like a game-show host. “And by the way, right there you see all the trucks. They just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House – yuge, tremendous, the most beautiful, most elegant ballroom maybe ever built in the world.” The pivot from national mourning to real-estate braggadocio was so swift it could give whiplash to a bobblehead. Kirk’s memory, it seemed, had been upstaged by chandeliers and the promise of “class like you’ve never seen.”
A Shift in Tone Sparks Quiet Speculation: Grief or Grandstanding?
The MAGA faithful, who’d spent twelve hours howling for vengeance against a phantom leftist menace, were left clutching their #JusticeForCharlie signs, wondering where the script went. Even global cheerleaders who’d raged on X about “socialist extremism” seemed to misplace their vocal cords – not even an “oops.” “It was extraordinary how quickly the outrage burned out,” mused a Republican strategist, stifling a smirk. “One minute, this is the defining crisis of our time, a war on conservatives. The next, we’re debating parquet flooring and crystal fixtures. It’s almost like the grief was… a limited-time offer.”
Even some of Trump’s diehards are raising eyebrows. “Was this about Charlie, or about firing up the base?” a conservative pundit wondered on air, risking excommunication from the MAGAsphere. “Because if the goal was to whip everyone into a frenzy and sell some hats, mission accomplished – until the facts ruined the vibe.” Indeed, the swift pivot to ballroom boosterism has sparked whispers that the outrage was less about Kirk’s tragic loss and more about a political PowerPoint: rile up the troops, point fingers, then pivot to the next shiny object when the narrative collapses.
As the nation mourns a young father of two, the irony hangs heavy: a president who vowed to fight for justice now seems more invested in curating the White House’s next Instagram backdrop. While the killer faces justice, as promised, the MAGA machine’s sudden silence – and Trump’s ballroom obsession – suggests the real casualty might be the credibility of a movement that cried “leftist wolf” one too many times.
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The monstrous maggoty mangled misfit moron, President Nobthrob the MIGHTY, mourns a slightly missed opportunity to flog future acquisitions, and so, sheds a tear for a missed larceny or graft grab. SPEW. Meanwhile, the death of a ratbag, and it is unfortunate to lose anyone to a crime, so, let us imagine a decent, clean, green, supreme world of our dreams…Meanwhile, the USA is sick, sliding, sad.
ROSWELL
Powerful writing, Roswell. Powerful points.
I must admit that I had never heard of Kirk until news and social media were spewing their hate messages about “leftist, woke ratbags who need to be shot/jailed/stoned/deported”
I do not condone his murder in any way, but anyone who says that if he had a 10 year old daughter who was raped and fell pregnant that:
“The answer is, yes, the baby would be delivered” (quote from 2024),
is below my contempt.
The nutcases of the world are saying of this quote that “he believes that life starts at conception and is protecting the rights of the unborn”
My question to them is what about the rights of a 10 year old who would have almost no understanding of what is happening to her when she is carrying the child of a rapist.
Their responses – silence.
The Guardian has this list of some of his utterings.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/11/charlie-kirk-quotes-beliefs
Thank you, Tess. A stunning compliment.
I heard that former President Obama had been roundly criticised for his post on X (Twitter) following the assassination of Charlie Kirk and apprehension of his alleged assassin. The post Obama made was:
“We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.”
At first I thought that the ravings of the far Right Conservative forces in the US could not possibly be offended by Obama’s comments but I was wrong. They have taken offence no so much on what he has said but on the very fact that as a former Democrat President, that he should say anything: they just want him to shut the F**k up as he is seen as part of the radical Left that Trump blames for the killing of Kirk: freedom of speech is only the preserve of the conservative Right, it seems.
As regards the young man apprehended (his Dad turned him in) it is absolutely critical that he be kept safe and face the courts in Utah and despite what Trump demands, the ultimate sentence should be in accordance with the Judicial process in the state of Utah, not a Presidential decree for the death penalty.
Tyler Robinson, the 22 year old alleged assassin is in custody and from what we know so far he has no political alignments – his folks are registered Republicans – and he has never voted. It seems that since reaching voting age his first federal vote would have been in 2024 but he chose not to exercise his voting prerogative. All the more reason that he be kept safe from the vengeance of a right-wing assassin seeking his own justice.
After the killing of John F Kennedy all sorts of conspiracy theories were floated from Right Wing Republican assassins (Kennedy was a Democrat) to Russian sponsored plots but we never were able to effectively get answers to those questions as a vengeful Jack Ruby ‘took out’ lee Harvey Oswald the alleged killer.
We know that Tyler Robinson had expressed to his family a dislike bordering on hatred of Kirk but as Obama has said, at this stage we do not know his motivations for the killing. Is he, as has been suggested a former fan of Trump who has become disillusioned wit the President’s performance or was he offended at the money-making practices of Kirk’s organisation, Turning Point USA (TPUSA) and the way it targeted young college kids for the Republican cause.
Until we know more of this young man’s motivations I will go along with what former President Obama say and not point fingers until we have the facts ………if that’s alright with everybody. But, in the meantime please keep this young man safe and in custody.
Does Trump have the attention span of a goldfish? Or less? I’m with you UncleTimrob, I hadn’t heard of Kirk either until his death but everything I have read since points to a person whose words deserved the utmost condemnation. Death? Perhaps not but at least his particular brand of vilification ends. America however is in a dire state and the quicker Australia removes itself from the orbit the better.
Kirk has received far too much attention, attention that by divine right belongs to The Donald. Donald doesn’t like it when he’s not the centre of the universe.
I think it’ll be more of a throne room than a ballroom.
Who is this Charlie Kirk you speak of?
It’s doubtful any of us have ever heard of or know of this bloke.
Why is the media full of some unknown American that got shot?
Hundreds of people are shot and killed every day in America.
I know this article is more about Trump but I would suggest there are a few other happenings in the world that warrant far more media attention.
The America central of our media, especially our ABC, is really getting up my nose.
On a side note: I discovered this history documentary channel on youtube not long ago and have to say that I’m impressed.
https://www.youtube.com/@PeopleProfiles
Yes Ross,
I too find the Oz msm pumping of American conspiracies, political moronism, economic stupidity, sectarian mania, misogyny, racism, white supremacy, war mongering, mass murder & assassinations to be over-baked, and designed as if it’s a contagion in Oz bringing an inevitable normal. And sadly it works for the monkey-see-monkey-do mob.
Charlie who? Charlie Kirk, as it turns out, was just another droog of the 100s of 1,000s of American fascist droogs of the ever-increasing xenophobic self-obsessed commentariat and flakey career politicians poncing around Holywood-style. Now T-Rump MAGAts+.
To keep the bucks rolling, seems America filled a gaping and suppurating need since they were shot of Clark Kent and Lois Lane.