Bill Maher addressed Charlie Kirk’s assassination during the episode on Friday evening Real timeWhere he started the episode by noting that it was a “very ugly week in America”.
During his opening monologue, Maher approached the current state of politics in the United States following the shooting. He started: “It’s a very ugly week in America with violence of all kinds: political violence, regular violence, many people who speak of a civil war.”
“And then today in the Congress, because Charlie Kirk was murdered, [Colorado Representative] Lauren Boebert got up and said, “We must have a prayer”. So they started to have a silent prayer. And then she started to shout: “No! Silent prayers obtain silent results. As if praying aloud obtained great results, “continued Maher.” Then the Democrats began to shout him that there was a school in his state. I tell you, so far, the civil war is not very civil. »»
Conservative activist Charlie Kirk was killed on Wednesday on the campus of the University of Utah Valley after the ball of an assassin struck his neck when he organized the event of a student. He discussed mass shots in the United States when he was struck. Friday, Tyler Robinson was identified as the suspect of the assassination and was put into police custody.
Maher then discussed President Donald Trump’s answer to a question on which he was asked Fox and friends On how to “repair this country” and “meet” following a major political divide.
“Today, they asked the president:” What are you going to do to bring the country together? “”, He recited. “And he said,” I know it will cause me trouble, but I don’t care. “This is another type of cat.
Later in the episode, Maher sat with Ben Shapiro and Tim Alberta, where they talked about the death of Kirk. There, the Real time The host condemned “the people who mocked his death or justified him”.
“I love everyone, I speak to everyone, I am happy to have adopted this approach. But he was shot dead under a banner who said: “Prove me the opposite”, because he was a debateur, and too many people think that the way of doing it-prove the opposite-is to simply eliminate you to speak completely, “he said. “So, people who laughed at his death or justified him, I think you are disgusting. I don’t need for you. The people who say now that we are at war, I don’t need for you.”
He also addressed the generalized reaction that Kirk triggered on social networks.
“The governor of the state said:” Social media is cancer “, which, I think, is true because when you read some of the comments of people, they are really in such a bubble that they do not understand that this happens on both sides,” added Maher. “And I think the only way it starts to improve, it is if the two parties admit:” OK, let’s not have this debate on whom it started. Let us not debate who is worse because, clearly, both sides do it now. “And the right did it too.”
After the death of Kirk, Hollywood and political figures went to social networks to share their reactions and their tributes to the activist of Maga. President Donald Trump announced his death on Truth Social, writing: “No one understood or had the hearts of young people in America better than Charlie. He was loved and admired by all, especially me, and now he is no longer with us. Melania and my sympathies go to her beautiful wife Erika, and to her family. Charlie, we love you! ”
The end of evening host, Jimmy Kimmel, went to Instagram, where he wrote: “Instead of the angry finger, can we just agree for a day that it is horrible and monstrous to shoot another human? On behalf of my family, we send love to kirks and all children, parents and innocent people who are victims of armed violence without sense.
