During last night’s episode of Gutfeld!, Greg Gutfeld delivered a heartfelt and fiery tribute to Charlie Kirk, reflecting on the young conservative leader’s life and tragic death. The monologue began with a clip of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) demanding action after yet another act of violence: “Are we going to do something, or are we going to argue over rhetoric? That is my question about this. We have to pass gun safety legislation and stop this.”
Gutfeld quickly cut through the predictable political response. “Yeah, it was the gun,” he said, noting the familiar pattern of blaming inanimate objects. “Can you imagine blaming the gun? These people must be shocked when they walk into a gun store and it’s completely quiet ‘cause the guns aren’t shooting at each other. They’re just sitting on shelves in peace.” He reminded viewers about the murder of Iryna Zarutska on the Charlotte subway with a knife, but Democrats didn’t blame the knife.
“In the case of Iryna, we hear a lot about the killer’s mental illness. But what if the mental illness is more diffuse, the product of brainwashing, where millions of people are told a group of individuals are Nazis or fascists? Brainwashing only works through repetition. This is not congenital, it’s created.” He called out the Democratic Party for their hypocrisy: “Yet the Democratic Party who pushed this refrain express disgust over Kirk’s murder. But they’re like an absentee dad whose violent offspring commits a violent crime. Their lack of responsibility helped this baby become a fiend. So, where were they?”
Gutfeld highlighted the pattern of leftist negligence: “It’s not like the Teslas weren’t vandalized, or ICE agents weren’t attacked, or Trump wasn’t nearly murdered twice. But now as their negligence is exposed, they play catch-up ‘cause there’s no Democrat Party left, and now there’s no nonviolent way to preserve their bad ideas. So you need violence, you need fear to keep others from pointing out how bad your ideas are.”
He turned to the philosophy underpinning American freedom: “Americans generally think ‘live and let live.’ You do you, I do me, and we’re good. But what happens when you are live and let live, but people around you aren’t? What if they don’t want you to live at all? How do you continue to live your life if even that basic principle and our freedoms are used against us?”
Reflecting on the motivations behind Kirk’s assassination, Gutfeld was clear: “It wasn’t about his ideas. It was that he was so good at them. He was the best. There’s no one like him. So this shall backfire.” He drew parallels to other historical figures taken too soon: “Look at history, at those murdered because they were good. MLK Jr.’s dream didn’t die with him, or JFK’s or Lincoln’s.”
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Gutfeld also offered a vision of Kirk’s enduring legacy: “As much as I hate the song ‘Imagine,’ it still gets played thousands of times a day around the globe. So their legacy grows, and Charlie’s will, too, beyond his wildest dreams. And where Charlie is right now, he is fine. I picture God asking him for his autograph.”
Acknowledging Kirk’s remarkable accomplishments, Gutfeld said, “True, he died young, but he accomplished more in 30 years than most countries do in 300. People love to say, ‘I want to make a difference.’ Well, he didn’t just say it, he did it. He was doing God’s work. How do you know I know that? ’Cause he was cut down by the devil. But his faith had him leave this mortal coil a joyous man. He already knew his impact, which will only grow with his passing.”
Gutfeld concluded with a message for both grieving friends and the broader conservative movement: “It’s his family we grieve for, his children, and be honest, we kind of grieve for us. We lost someone great, one of us, a man whose entire career was built on polite conversation. But that grief now hardens into resolve. If you want to kill an idea, the worst thing you could do is kill the man behind it because that gives the idea not just legs, but also wings, and also millions of louder and stronger voices, ours and yours.”
BEAUTIFUL: Greg Gutfeld's monologue was fully dedicated to honoring Charlie Kirk
— Nick Sortor (@nicksortor) September 13, 2025
"THIS SHALL BACKFIRE. Look at the history at those murdered because they were good. MLK Jr's dream did NOT die with him, or JFK's or Lincoln's... Their legacy grows. And Charlie's will too. Beyond… pic.twitter.com/pjYRxBFJiT
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