Charlie Kirk called Martin Luther King Jr. ‘awful’

Claim:

Turning Point US CEO and founding partner Charlie Kirk, Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King Jr.

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Context:

Journalist William Turton first informed Kirk’s comments in January 2024 for Wired. According to Turton’s report, Kirk made a statement while talking at the American Fest, a political congress organized by Turning Point in December 2023. Turton provided Snopes a voice recording, which confirmed that Kirk said the quote about King.

On September 10, 2025, Turning Point USA founder and conservative commentator Charlie Kirk was shot deadly during an event that spoke Utah College.

Afterwards, social media users shared a quotation that Martin Luther King Jr, a Conservative Pundite symbol of civil rights, was not a good person. Publications Facebook– Instagram– and x He tied the following words to Kirk: “Mlk was terrible. He was not a good person. He said something good he did not believe.” Snopes also received reader queries about the reality of the alleged proposal.

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We found that the quote about King was attributed to Kirk.

Journalist William Turton first reported his comments in an article of Kirk dated January 2024. Wired (archived). According to Turton’s report, Kirk made the statement speaking at the Fest, a political congress held by Turning Point in December 2023.

Kirk answered a question of a student who said that he was the subject of the IX investigation at his university after publishing a humiliating message on social media about transsexual people. Kirk, the student’s title IX under the complaint of how was expelled from the school, he said.

Turton, who participated in the event, provided a voice recording to Snopes and said: Kirk said:

[The student] As conservatives, as conservatives, the Civil Rights Law, which we worshiped as conservatives, was expelled from the school under the complaint of a title IX. “Oh, a great man.” Actually, MLK was terrible. OK? He is not a good person. He said something good he actually didn’t believe. [unintelligible] Mlk go to research, you have to investigate it.

Kirk, after the Federal Government’s free speeches of the students’ free speeches in the mid -1960s, as a permanent diversity, equality and type of bureaucracy “using the Civil Rights Law”

During the same incident, Kirk said, “I have a very radical opinion on this issue, but I can defend it and thought it. In the mid -1960s, we made a big mistake when we crossed the Civil Rights Law.”

Kirk was talking turning point federal law Prohibition of discrimination in public places that ensure the integration of schools and other public spaces and make employment discrimination illegal. Title IX, which one “ban Discrimination based on gender in federal financial aid educational programs and activities, “The original 1964 was not part of the Civil Rights Law, but passed Under 1972 education changes

Kirk answered Wired Article about King’s characterization in Podcast “Charlie Kirk Show” section. A clip of the answer can be found right now RushHere he reads an E -Post -loud quotes sent by the cable reporter:

“In our piece, we note that Kirk describes King as a ‘bad man’.” This is true. “And Kirk described that the country made a mistake when it crossed the Civil Rights Law ‘a very, very radical view’.” Also correct. “As we mentioned in the piece, Kirk described before [King] As a hero and icon of civil rights. “This is true, I used to be wrong.” What inspired Kirk to change his opinion about the MLK? Why does Kirk think that MLK is a bad man? “

As we have reported before, Kirk made negative statements about the law of civil rights other than the US event. For example, media is important for media in April 2024 published (archivedKirk’s Civil Rights Law, a video and transcript that says that the law of Civil Rights has created a monster and that this monster has become an anti -white weapon “. This image is a video Kirk’s channel in Rumbles (at 8: 06).

For further reading, Snopes investigated that Kirk’s Jewish money ruined the US culture, that empathy was “makeup, the new age duration” and that his last words before the deadly shoot were about gang violence.

Resources:

“Charlie Kirk: The Civil Rights Law ‘created a monster, and this monster has now become a white weapon.” https://www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk/charlie-kirk-civil-rights-act-created-beast-and-has-has-row-tned-white-weap. Access Date: 12 September 2025.

“Human Rights Law (1964).” National Archives, 5 October 2021, https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/civil-rights-act. Access Date: 12 September 2025.

Deng, Rae. “Yes, Charlie Kirk’s last words, ‘Isn’t it enough to count the gang violence?’ ‘Snopes, September 11, 2025, https://www.snopes.com//fact-check/charlie-kirk-last-words/. Access Date: 12 September 2025.

“Jeremy Carl: Being white isn’t a problem.” Rumble.com, https://rumble.com/v4Pvgc6-jeremy Access Date: 12 September 2025.

Lamandeleine, Izz Scott. “The claims that we control information about Charlie Kirk after 6 assassination.” Snopes, 12 September 2025, https://www.snopes.com//collections/charlie-kirk-sooting-collection/. Access Date: 12 September 2025.

Liles, Jordan. “Charlie Kirk said that empathy is ‘makeup, the new age period’.” Snopes, 11 September 2025, https://www.snopes.com//fact-check/charlie-kirk-empathy-quote/. Access Date: 12 September 2025.

Loe, Megan. “Charlie Kirk once said the Civil Rights Law was” a big mistake “.” Snopes, 11 September 2025, https://www.snopes.com//fact-check/kirk-civil-rights-act-mommake/. Access Date: 12 September 2025.

Rascouët-Paz, Anna. “Charlie Kirk once said that Jewish money ruined the US culture.” Snopes, 11 September 2025, https://www.snopes.com//fact-check/charlie-kirk-jewish-money-quote/. Access Date: 12 September 2025.

“Title IX and Gender Discrimination.” US Department of Education. http://www.ed.gov/laws-and-policy/civil-rights-raws/title–and-sex-discrimation. Access Date: 12 September 2025.

“Wired comes when he dare to say the truth in MLK JR. and the Civil Rights Law after Charlie Kirk.” Rumble.com, https://rumble.com/v46N9PT-wirered-comes-fter-charlie-klk-jr. and.html. Access Date: 12 September 2025.