Obama knew what he was doing.
Former President Barack Obama said he thought “Charlie Kirk’s ideas were wrong.”
As he made the statement, the crowd at the Jefferson Educational Society’s global summit, where he was speaking, started to cheer.
Watch the moment it went down here:
Barack Obama signals for the audience to STOP CLAPPING after saying Charlie Kirk’s ideas were “wrong.”
He didn’t want a big reaction to this comment, but he got one.
As the audience erupted in applause, Obama looked visibly frustrated and motioned his hand with a stop gesture,… pic.twitter.com/vEN44Bkmca
— Vigilant Fox
(@VigilantFox) September 17, 2025
The New York Post provided quotes of Obama’s remarks:
“I didn’t know Charlie Kirk,” Obama said. “I was generally aware of some of his ideas. I think those ideas were wrong, but that doesn’t negate the fact that what happened was a tragedy.
“I mourn for him and his family. He was a young man with two small children and a wife, who obviously had a huge number of friends and supporters who cared about him.”
The first public statements from Obama on Tuesday came after he tweeted last week in the aftermath of the slaying.
“We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children,” he wrote on X just hours after the assassination.
Here’s a longer clip:
Former President Barack Obama starts listing out the things he disagreed with Charlie Kirk on before pointing blame at the Trump White House for political division.
Obama also patted himself on the back, claiming his White House never had “extreme views” like Trump’s does.
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— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) September 17, 2025
BBC reported more on Obama’s remarks:
This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.Former US President Barack Obama has warned of a “political crisis of the sort that we haven’t seen before” in the wake of the killing of Charlie Kirk.
At an event in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, Obama said he did not know Kirk and disagreed with many of his views, but called the killing “horrific and a tragedy”.
He criticised Donald Trump’s remarks towards his political opponents and pointed to previous Republican presidents who, he said, emphasised national unity in moments of high tension, US media report.
In response, the White House called Obama the “architect of modern political division”.
ADVERTISEMENTKirk, 31, died of a single gunshot wound while speaking at Utah Valley University in Orem on 10 September.
