Every. Single. Day.
Some new conspiracy about Erika Kirk pops up that supposedly exposes a deeper truth about how she's not actually sad about her husband, Charlie Kirk's, murder.
She's too happy. Her sadness isn't real. She's too focused on work. She moved a picture!
That last one was a legitimate accusation. Apparently, there was a wedding photo of her and Charlie that disappeared from the shelf in the background in the Charlie Kirk Show scene when Erika was on camera. People immediately pointed out the discrepancy, and it became another "AHA!" moment for the Erika Kirk conspiracy theorists.
As it turns out, the picture is still there; it was just moved to a lower shelf because her daughter wanted to look at the photo, and it was moved lower so she could see it whenever she wanted.
Get you someone who obsesses over you like some of these lunatics obsess over Erika Kirk. https://t.co/z7B5qNKT1P pic.twitter.com/GYEcTWC8IB
— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) February 12, 2026
Everything I've seen from Erika Kirk signals that she's grieving in a normal manner. People who find too many "oddities" in her behavior are actively looking for them, and if you're trying to find something weird about something, you will find it.
But if I can just add a little bit of personal experience to this...
A few years ago, my good friend Doc Thompson died while jogging next to a train track. He was wearing his headphones and didn't hear it coming. It hit him, killing him instantly. Doc wasn't just my friend; he was my mentor. He had asked me to do a radio show on his network, Mojo 5.0, which I happily accepted and did for a time.
I remember the call I got from our producer, Ron Phillips, that he had died. I was in my living room watching television with my wife. I sat down on the couch and felt, oddly, a lack of any major emotion. Not from lack of care, but because when something hits you like that, your brain takes a minute to catch up. Someone being here then not is an odd thing for the brain to wrap itself around. It did eventually catch up, and the grief set in.
When I went back to the studio to join my fellow hosts to remember Doc, we remembered the good times with him, but you know what else we did on air?
We made fun of him.
We cracked jokes about how ridiculous it is to get hit by a train. We laughed both for Doc and at Doc.
If that seems careless and callous, then let me correct you. This was the most respectful thing we could've done for Doc. He would've wanted us to do it, and if the roles were reversed, this is exactly what we would've expected out of him if any one of us had died. Laughing was the thing Doc loved. He was the jester in the court, and if we weren't cracking jokes with each other and at his expense, then it would've been a sign that we didn't really know him, or care to know him that well.
If you weren't a faithful member of his audience or didn't know any of us that well, it would probably come off as gross. You would probably conclude that we were glad he was gone. We certainly weren't typically demonstrating grief as you'd think about it, with black clothing, tears, and anger drenched in sadness.
No, we were having a great time remembering our friend and still clowning on him like he was still in the room, because in a way, he was. His legacy was still there.
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Erika Kirk is clearly sad, but she has work to do. She has children to raise. She has a massive company that practically carries the conservative movement on her back. She's having to grieve the loss of the most important person in the world to her outside of Christ, while juggling things that people with all the benefits and blessings in the world collapse under.
People seem to think that unless she's locked in her room sobbing constantly, while wearing black and not bathing for weeks, then she didn't actually care. They think the idea that running her husband's business, the thing that literally has changed the world, right after his death, is somehow disrespectful to him, because it just means she's in it for the money.
What is she supposed to do? Let it falter? TPUSA is helping save the world, and I'm not exaggerating here. Charlie chose his wife to head it up in the case of his death. Should she ignore his wishes, his charge, to put on the proper show of grievance to you?
I'm getting the impression that people obsessing over this fall into a few categories. Either they want TPUSA to fail because they know the power that it has and want to see it gone to help the left, or they're tied into conspiracy theory groups who seem to have it out for Charlie for one dumb reason or another.
Erika Kirk isn't the issue here. Her grief is completely normal, her handling of it is completely normal, but her task is not at all normal. No one should hope to find themselves in the position Erika Kirk has because there's a strong chance they wouldn't be able to do what she's doing.
