Last year Charlie Kirk’s widow, Erika Kirk raised some eyebrows when she publicly forgave her husband’s murderer, Tyler Robinson, but it seems like she’s drawing the line at jokes about her late controversial husband as she doesn’t seem like she’ll be extending the same courtesy to Dave Chappelle.
Over the weekend a leaked video of Dave Chappelle joking about the death of Charlie Kirk at a Madison Square Garden show had MAGA and far-right influencers all in their feelings as they took to social media to “cancel” the iconic comedian for poking fun at their “modern day martyr.”
In the leaked clip, Dave Chappelle acknowledges that he “shouldn’t be saying this,” but that he felt “better” knowing that Charlie kirk was no longer amongst the land of the living.
“I didn’t ask to feel this way. I just be driving around like, ‘Why am I in such a good mood? Oh!’”
While the crowd responded with a lukewarm round of laughter and applause, the joke ultimately reached the ears of Erika Kirk and needless to say she wasn’t too happy. Taking to X to express her “outrage” at Chappelle’s viral clip, the woman who went on a cross-country tour following her husband’s death wrote that it was “beyond disgusting” for “leftist” comedians and others to make light of her late husband’s assassination.
Even far-right Elon Musk chimed in on the situation writing “Shame, shame, shame on Dave Chappelle.”
Elon Musk has proven himself to be a White Castle burger many times over though so no one really cares about what he has to say about any situation going forward.
One can only wonder whether the orange overlord of the MAGA movement will use this opportunity to further fan the flames of the culture wars that the far-right live for and comment on Dave Chappelle’s joke or if he’s too publicly humiliated by the blue tsunami that rocked America last Tuesday (Nov. 3) to even bother.
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