Erika Kirk has been under the spotlight as never before. Ever since the tragic death of her husband, conservative commentator and founder of Turning Point USA, Charlie Kirk, she has been making public appearances and attracting the attention of many.
Days after the tragedy, Erika announced she would be taking the CEO position of her late husband’s non-profit organization. She addressed the audience of The Charlie Kirk Show, “The Charlie Kirk Show is not going anywhere.
“My husband’s voice will live on. The show will go on. We will have rotating hosts, rotating casts, rotating people coming on. It is going to be continually the north star of the conservative movement, of the voice of the youth, of the voice of the base, and that will not end.”
She then announced her plans of continuing Charlie’s tour through college campuses nationwide, named the “American Comeback Tour.”
“We’ll never be silenced,” Erika continued. “That’s why continuing his platform in a beautiful, honorable way will reinforce that he will never be silenced. My husband’s voice will go on.”
Turning Point USA is believed to be the “largest Conservative student movement” in the US. It has groups at more than 3,000 universities and high schools, and Erika Kirk said it is moving “full steam ahead.”
On November 22, 2025, as Erika Kirk joined Kelly for the final night of Megyn Kelly Live at the Desert Diamond Arena, and her appearance caused a stir on the social media, not much for what she had to say but for the way she was dressed.
Erika Kirk stepped out in a black lace suit with semi-transparent sleeves and trousers, a look complemented with oversized rings stacked on each of her fingers and heavily layered bracelets.
“Is this a lace pantsuit?” one person asked. Another added: “Erika Kirk is wearing a full on see through lace pant suit btw [sic].”
“It’s odd to wear see-through lace black outfits while ‘mourning’ your husband and never actually crying real tears,” one person wrote on X.
“Why does she sound like she’s reading from a script?” another remarked.
People also commented on the size of her many rings. “Those big golden rings are too much, aren’t they? I try to empathize with her but it is hard,” one viewer commented. Another added, “What is with the gaudy rings?”
Her rings, however, which she also wore during the Presidential Medal of Freedom ceremony on her husband’s behalf, carry a personal story. Two of them are engraved with the initials of her and Charlie’s children, and the third is her wedding ring.
This isn’t the first time Erika to face criticism from the public. In the past, she received backlash when she and Vice President JD Vance shared an emotional hug and she touched the back of his head, a moment she discussed with Kelly. “Anyone whom I have hugged, that I have touched the back of your head when I hug you, I always say, ‘God bless you,’” she said. “Whoever is hating on a hug needs a hug themselves.”
Opening up of her grief, Erika shared that she and Charlie always dreamt of having four children. “We wanted to have four,” she shared. “And I was praying to God that I was pregnant when he got murdered […] I was like, ‘Oh goodness, that would be the ultimate blessing out of this catastrophe.’”
Asked if she is mad at God for what happened to her husband, Erika said, “The enemy would love for me to be angry. He would love it.”
Charlie Kirk was shot in the neck on Wednesday, September 10, during a debate event while speaking before a large crowd at Utah Valley University (UVU).
His assassin, Tyler Robinson, has since been arrested and “faces single counts of aggravated murder, felony discharge of a firearm, and violent offense in the presence of a child, along with two counts each of obstruction of justice and witness tampering,” People reported.
The couple shared two children, a daughter, 2, and a son, just 16 months old.
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