Charlie Kirk
American political activist
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| March 2025 | Charlie Kirk was appointed to the Air Force Academy Board of Visitors by President Trump, alongside other notable appointees such as Senator Tommy Tuberville, Col. Doug Nikolai, and Dina Powell. |
| 2024 | NBC News reported on Kirk's transformation from a secular position to actively opposing LGBT rights, including arguing against gay marriage and claiming an 'LGBTQ agenda'. |
| 2024 | Kirk assisted Donald Trump in selecting leadership positions for his administration, including helping to choose cabinet members after the presidential election. |
| 2024 | Launched the 'You're being brainwashed' tour targeting college campuses in the lead-up to the 2024 Presidential election, focusing on conservative political messaging and criticizing liberal educational environments. |
| 2024 | Charlie Kirk embarked on the 'You're being brainwashed' tour, visiting around 25 college campuses to engage with students and encourage Gen-Z voter turnout ahead of the 2024 presidential election. The tour reportedly generated around two billion viral views on social media and was praised for its significant impact in supporting Donald Trump's election efforts. |
| 2024 | Kirk advocated for a nationwide ban on gender affirming care for transgender individuals, stating that Donald Trump should run on this issue. |
| 2024 | During a visit to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Kirk expressed his opposition to gay marriage and told a conservative gay student, 'I don't agree with your lifestyle.' |
| 2024 | Charlie Kirk's book 'Right Wing Revolution: How to Beat the Woke and Save the West' was released. |
| 2024 | In 2024, NBC News reported that internal data showed Charlie Kirk's podcast is being downloaded between 500,000 and 750,000 times each day, ranking it No. 13 on Apple Podcasts for news. |
| May 2024 | Charlie Kirk and Erika Frantzve welcomed their second child, a son. |
| January 2024 | In January, Charlie Kirk criticized Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs, linking them to national aviation issues and expressing concerns about qualifications of Black pilots, which led to conflict with the Republican National Committee over Black voter outreach. |
| January 2024 | Charlie Kirk claimed that a 'myth' surrounding Martin Luther King Jr. had grown 'totally out of control', arguing that he was the most honored person of the 20th century despite being disliked by many during his lifetime. |
| December 2023 | At AmericaFest, Charlie Kirk described Martin Luther King Jr. as 'awful [...] not a good person', and criticized the Civil Rights Act of 1964, calling its passage a 'huge mistake' and alleging it led to a permanent 'DEI-type bureaucracy'. |
| February 2023 | A Brookings Institution study found that Charlie Kirk's podcast contained the second-highest proportion of false, misleading, and unsubstantiated statements among 36,603 episodes produced by 79 prominent political podcasters. |
| 2022 | Journalist Bari Weiss released a report dubbed 'The Twitter Files', alleging that Twitter was censoring conservative personalities, including Charlie Kirk's account which was flagged under 'do not amplify'. |
| 2022 | Kirk published his fourth book titled 'The College Scam: How America's Universities Are Bankrupting and Brainwashing Away the Future of America's Youth.' |
| 2022 | Turning Point Academy was intended to open in the fall of this year, although the partnership with StrongMind ended due to backlash. |
| 2022 | At the TPUSA Young Women's Leadership Summit 2022 Conference, Kirk advocated for a 'biblical model' for women in romantic relationships, emphasizing the importance of partners who are protectors and leaders, and encouraged attendees to start a Turning Point USA chapter to meet conservative men. |
| December 2022 | Charlie Kirk warned the Republican National Committee that they needed to listen to their grassroots voters or risk the consequences of being ignored, claiming it could lead to the most stunted and muted Republican Party in the history of the conservative movement. |
| August 2022 | Charlie Kirk and Erika Frantzve welcomed their first child, a daughter. |
| February 2022 | During the Conservative Political Action Conference, Charlie Kirk emphasized that 'the southern border matters a lot more than the Ukrainian border,' and called for Republican leaders to label the situation at the southern border as an 'invasion.' |
| February 2022 | After the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, Charlie Kirk characterized the conflict as merely a 'border dispute' and disseminated false claims from Russian state media regarding Ukrainian actions against Russian separatists. |
| 2021 | Kirk's Turning Point USA's monthly online average grew to 111,000 unique visitors. |
| 2021 | Turning Point USA announced the establishment of Turning Point Academy, aimed at providing an America-first education to students, in partnership with Arizona education firm StrongMind. |
| 2021 | Liberty University renamed the Falkirk Center to 'Standing for Freedom Center'. |
| 2021 | Charlie Kirk appeared before the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack and invoked the Fifth Amendment, while his team submitted 8,000 pages of records to the committee. |
| 2021 | After Liberty University did not renew his contract with the Falkirk Center for Faith and Liberty, Charlie Kirk founded Turning Point Faith, aimed at engaging pastors and church leaders in political issues and civic engagement. |
| November 2021 | In a Fox News article, Charlie Kirk asserted that state power should be used to prevent teachers from indoctrinating students with critical race theory, advocating for a strong confrontation against leftist ideologies. |
| October 2021 | Charlie Kirk stated on his podcast that Democrats wanted Americans to live in a state of 'sexual anarchy' and undermined cultural identity, prompting backlash on social media. He later expanded on these remarks in a statement on the Claremont Institute website. |
| October 5 2021 | During the Minnesota leg of the 'Exposing Critical Racism Tour', Charlie Kirk called George Floyd a 'scumbag' and made remarks referencing the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. |
| July 2021 | In July 2021, Kirk promoted misleading claims about the efficacy and safety of COVID-19 vaccines during an appearance on Fox News' Tucker Carlson show. |
| May 2021 | Charlie Kirk married Erika Frantzve, a podcaster and businesswoman, who had previously won the Miss Arizona USA pageant in 2012. |
| May 2021 | Charlie Kirk tweeted for parents to protest at school board meetings, urging them to stand up against mask mandates and the teaching of critical race theory. |
| February 2021 | A membership directory of the Council for National Policy (CNP) was leaked, revealing Charlie Kirk's role as a spokesperson for CNP Action, the political arm of the CNP. |
| January 6 2021 | Charlie Kirk's organizations received a donation of $1.25 million from Publix heiress Julie Fancelli to fund buses for the January 6 event. |
| January 5 2021 | Charlie Kirk announced on Twitter that Turning Point Action and Students for Trump were sending more than 80 buses to Washington, D.C. for the protest the following day, although they actually sent seven buses with 350 students. |
| 2020 | The Falkirk Center spent at least $50,000 on political Facebook advertisements promoting Trump and Republican candidates. |
| 2020 | Liberty University did not renew Charlie Kirk's one-year contract. |
| 2020 | In defending the Trump administration's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Charlie Kirk made a false statement regarding the H1N1 swine flu pandemic, claiming that it took President Barack Obama millions of infections and over 1,000 deaths to declare a public health emergency. |
| 2020 | Kirk was briefly banned from Twitter after falsely claiming that hydroxychloroquine was '100% effective in treating the virus'. |
| 2020 | The book 'The MAGA Doctrine: The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future' authored by Charlie Kirk was published. |
| 2020 | Kirk stated that he refused to abide by mask requirements, declaring that 'the science around masks is very questionable'. |
| 2020 | Kirk described social distancing prohibitions in churches as a 'Democratic plot against Christianity'. |
| 2020 | Charlie Kirk spread false information and conspiracy theories about COVID-19 on social media platforms, including Twitter, and referred to COVID-19 as the 'China virus'. |
| 2020 | ProPublica investigated the finances of Turning Point USA, claiming that the organization had made misleading financial claims and reported that Charlie Kirk's salary increased significantly. |
| November 5 2020 | Charlie Kirk led a Stop the Steal protest at the Maricopa Tabulation Center in Phoenix following Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 presidential election. |
| October 2020 | In October 2020, Charlie Kirk began hosting a daily three-hour radio talk show called The Charlie Kirk Show on Salem Media's 'The Answer' radio channel. |
| September 2020 | Charlie Kirk was identified as the William F. Buckley, Jr. Council Member of the Council for National Policy (CNP) in a leaked membership directory. |
| August 2020 | At a meeting of the Council for National Policy, Kirk commented on the impact of campus closures by Democrats, suggesting it would limit voter fraud opportunities and remove half a million votes from the election. |
| August 2020 | Jerry Falwell Jr. resigned as president of Liberty University. |
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