Left-Wing Activists Stage Mock Assassination of Charlie Kirk Outside TPUSA Event
Organizers instructed participants to “Be as loud as you can. Be as obnoxious as you can. Make these people hate us. Make sure they know you hate them.”
A group of far-left activists descended on Turning Point USA’s Women’s Leadership Summit over the weekend, intent on heckling attendees, ridiculing the event, and creating as much disruption as possible. The three-day summit, which began Friday at the San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter, took place under heightened security after months of organizing by activist groups opposed to the event.
The security concerns were not merely hypothetical. Just one week before the summit, authorities arrested a Texas man accused of threatening to bomb the gathering and kill TPUSA CEO Erika Kirk in a series of social media posts.
Local media outlet KSAT reported:
A San Antonio man was arrested early Thursday after he was accused of threatening to kill Erika Kirk ahead of her appearance next week at a Turning Point USA event downtown.
Jacob Wenske, 26, faces two felony charges of making a terroristic threat causing public fear, charging paperwork obtained by KSAT Investigates shows.
San Antonio police investigators said Wenske replied to an April social media post about the group’s three-day women’s leadership summit by writing, “I know exactly where to bomb.”
In a separate post within the same thread, Wenske wrote, “I can’t wait to be the valet for her escort,” a warrant for his arrest states.
An email from an account registered to Wenske stated, “Death to Erika Kirk and every single speaker there!! America will live on without those scum on this earth. Every Christian nationalist shall perish in the bombing that will take place at every single Turning Point rally and event,” according to the warrant.
By far, the most grotesque spectacle of the weekend occurred when an activist dressed up as Charlie Kirk and staged a mock reenactment of his assassination in front of attendees. Frontlines, TPUSA’s media arm, reported that protesters had been “chanting that Kirk ‘deserved to die’ all morning outside of the event.”
While there is no indication that the protesters had any connection to Wenske’s threats, the timing made the mock assassination all the more disturbing. With a credible threat against Kirk still fresh in attendees’ minds, turning the murder of her late husband into political theater demonstrated a striking lack of basic human decency.
Footage of the disturbing display can be viewed below.
SAN ANTONIO- A radical leftwinger is dressed as Charlie Kirk and is re-enacting his assassination in front of attendees of TPUSA’s women’s conference.
They’ve been mocking Charlie’s assassination and chanting that he “deserved to die” all morning outside of the event.… pic.twitter.com/vfPzsdnCxl
— FRONTLINES TPUSA (@FrontlinesTPUSA) June 6, 2026
Frontlines posted video showing the activists assembling before marching toward the Rivercenter. Some waved pride flags, while others carried an eclectic assortment of homemade signs bearing slogans such as “Women Hold Up Half the Sky,” “Erika Pedophile Protector,” “It’s Right to Rebel,” and even a quotation attributed to Mao Zedong: “To die for the people is weightier than Mt. Tai, but to die for the fascists, exploiters, and oppressors is lighter than a feather.”
Taken together, the collection of messages was less a coherent political statement than a jumble of grievances, slogans, and ideological talking points. If the demonstrators were attempting to communicate a unified purpose, it was not immediately apparent.
HAPPENING NOW: Far-left activists are preparing to march towards the San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter to protest @TPUSA and @MrsErikaKirk.
Organizers have been plotting this for months — ever since TPUSA announced the Women’s Leadership Summit.
They claim the event “actively… pic.twitter.com/9jcHpVYF79
— FRONTLINES TPUSA (@FrontlinesTPUSA) June 6, 2026
Frontlines reported that the protesters wore costumes like the Grim Reaper and The Handmaid’s Tale and were told to make as much noise as possible to “disrupt the event.”
Organizers instructed participants to “Be as loud as you can. Be as obnoxious as you can. Make these people hate us. Make sure they know you hate them.”
MARCHING ORDERS: Anti-TPUSA protesters dressed in costumes like the grim reaper and The Handmaid’s Tale are following the organizers instructions before marching toward the Women’s Leadership Summit in San Antonio, TX.
“Be as loud as you can. Be as obnoxious as you can. Make… pic.twitter.com/8wMZ1ZHj2F
— FRONTLINES TPUSA (@FrontlinesTPUSA) June 6, 2026
WATCH: Mob of far-left protesters flips off our team covering the Women’s Leadership Summit outside the San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter — after organizers instructed the anti-TPUSA crowd to bring noise makers to disrupt the event.@TPUSA pic.twitter.com/Cp6FjUyudE
— FRONTLINES TPUSA (@FrontlinesTPUSA) June 6, 2026
Inside the venue, a heckler interrupted TPUSA CEO Erika Kirk’s speech, which she handled like a champion. After she urged the audience to put their faith in God, a heckler shouted, “Erika Kirk protects pedophiles! Erika Kirk protects pedophiles!”
Kirk stopped her speech and addressed the woman: “It’s important to remember that happiness comes and goes — and I pray that you find it.”
Erika Kirk got heckled by a brave woman today pic.twitter.com/fkGSFGAxaV
— Jamison Daniel (@AntiquarianMuse) June 6, 2026
These people are evil.
There’s no way around it.
We are surrounded by people who wish us dead and will dance in our graves when we die or when they kill us.
I’m not sure we can turn this around as a country, but we certainly cannot share it with them.
They want us dead.
— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) June 6, 2026
This is going to look great on their resume on the way into the trash can. Way to burn down your future. Perhaps that is why they hide like the ancestors in the KKK. Attacking a widow and a peaceful movement makes them feel important?
— Danny Pennington (@oldmaninahat2) June 6, 2026
Frankly, it was unclear what, precisely, these activists were actually protesting. According to Frontlines, organizers claimed the TPUSA summit “‘actively harmed feminist movements’ and insisted that ‘hateful obstructions to feminism’ are not welcome in San Antonio.”
Whatever the protesters hoped to accomplish, however, it is hard to imagine they changed a single mind. Reenacting the assassination of a political opponent is not an act of persuasion, nor is it a meaningful form of protest. It is cruelty masquerading as political expression. The spectacle was pointless, needlessly provocative, and profoundly callous — particularly given that it targeted the legacy of a man whose widow was hosting the event. If the goal was to demonstrate moral superiority, the protesters achieved precisely the opposite.
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What a bunch of losers and the billionaires paying them are even bigger losers.
Almost like they’re screaming, “We’re psychotic – mentally ill. Come join us!”
Norman Vincent Peale is unknown to the rabid leftist, and their actions reveal the heartless, selfish Fascist underneath the guise of “equality”.
Wait, why is be as loud and obnoxious as you can so special here? They’re always loud and obnoxious. When are they not loud and obnoxious? It is their defining characteristic. That and violence.
They don’t usually admit that they’re being obnoxious on purpose.
You want these spoiled children anywhere near power? The rest of us don’t.
Hate and violence are the only things that the utterly vile, evil and wretched communist/Islamofascist/Muslim supremacist Dhimmi-crat criminal organization and its goose-stepping and subversive band of fifth columnist fanatics, have to offer.
At least there was coverage of the Nazis in Skokie. Here, not so much. Which may be a good thing. These haters are just playing in their echo chamber. No one really knows outside of it. Best to laugh and ridicule them, so long as they do not go over the edge and actually try to act it out in real life. Their parents must be so proud. Budding Nazis of a different stripe.
Stupid kids come from stupid parents.
There was no coverage of the Nazis at Skokie, because that march never happened. At the last minute Chicago gave them the permit they had originally applied for, so they had their event there. They had only applied to Skokie in the first place because Chicago had refused to let them use a park there.
“Whatever the protesters hoped to accomplish, however, it is hard to imagine they changed a single mind.”
They don’t want to persuade you. They want to terrorize you.
It’s funny how Merrick Garland only found all the wrong “domestic terrorists.”
I don’t think they even want that. I think they’re there only to perform for each other and demonstrate to each other how very ideologically pure they are. And it’s also an excuse to behave in public like the lowest scum that they are.
The Left is doing everything it can to trigger a civil war. So be it.
Mock assassinations today, real ones tomorrow.
Time to stop putting up with this crap that’s riding in on the coattails of “free speech.” If you can’t yell “fire” in a crowded theater (as the speech police like to say), then neither should you be able to stage “mock assassinations,” especially of real people/ groups of people (e.g. conservatives, Christians, etc).
So you believe in the censorship of speech?
(BTW – you most certainly can yell “fire” in a crowded theater.)
BTW – you most certainly can yell “fire” in a crowded theater.
As a matter or course; do we need to be obtuse?
*when there is a fire in the cineplex lobby or adjacent theater.
**When a psycho dressed as Batman is shooting people in an Aurora theater.
***When a tornado is bearing down on the neighborhood.
Thanks for agreeing that despite the op’s statement, you can yell “fire” in a crowded theater.
That’s not “obtuse,” that’s the law.
There it is again.
I’m not agreeing with you.
Your broad statement of rights under the constitution required clarification.
You fail to understand that I’m utilizing the Left’s own premise (did you even see that little “if” there?), which makes them huge hypocrites… they are first in line to police speech they disapprove of while they give themselves a free pass constantly.
They’ve already taken things in that direction with their “hate speech” nonsense, but if they’re going to play that game then we need to give it back to them good and hard.
And I ask again, “so you believe in the censorship of speech?”
So you feel justified in doing the same wrongful acts as they do? Doesn’t that make you just as much of a hypocrite as they are?
I am perfectly happy with these idiots exposing their idiotic ideas. There is no need to shut them down on “speech” grounds as decent people will and do see them for what they are.
“Doesn’t that make you just as much of a hypocrite as they are?”
Not when you do it BECAUSE they do it and never get stopped. If they’ve changed the rules, use them.
Fork the high road. Any chair in a bar fight.
But they do get stopped. When have they ever been allowed by the courts to get away with violating the first amendment? (Other than the aftermath of J6, which is sui generis.)
The democrat party is a death cult. They can’t get enough of it.
“Be as loud as you can. Be as obnoxious as you can. Make these people hate us. Make sure they know you hate them.”
These are the same people who have “Hate Has No Place Here” signs in front of their houses. These are the same people who claim they killed Charlie Kirk because he espoused “hate”.
They are retards who can’t see the irony. Cognitive Dissonance personified. They have nothing whatsoever to contribute to our society.
They already started
4 attempts on Trump alone…
They got hurt feelz because TPUSA women leadership conference didn’t include trannies?
How long before the reenactor experiences actual reenactment? That is what their bosses are hoping for.
Yes. They want to force a reaction so that they can then claim the moral high ground. The problem is that anyone with two brain cells to rub together sees the fraud for what it is.
Super karma. Asshole kills patriot. Patriot kills asshole – dressed up as deceased patriot who – was mocking him.
What they’re going to get a re-enactment of is Charles Whitman.
Rooftop Koreans.
Elisjsha Dicken and Daniel Penny.
And hopefully, John Brown.
These incredibly vulgar displays only happen because these individuals do not pay a price.
As Benjamin Franklin once said, if it hurts, it instructs (or words to that effect).
I guarantee that if you adjusted a few skeletons with Louisville Sluggers that eventually Erica Kirk would be receiving apologies and condolences instead of threats.
I’m terribly sorry if this seems a primitive solution in a modern time but this is where we are now.
Third world residents need third world solutions.
These ghoulish clowns cheer when women murder their own babies, so of course they will cosplay with themselves in public in order to ridicule a murdered man.
Same shtt, different day.
Imagine mocking the assassination of a man who was sitting speaking with people and then looking in the mirror and believing you are the “Good Guy” of High Morals.
That level of delusion has no diagnosis.
So all they’ve got is hate? That can work when you have a clearly identified enemy scapegoat that you can utterly dehumanize. But what exactly can you hate about Erika Kirk? How can her life story be any more human and relatable. I guess they hate that she believes in something bigger than herself when they don’t believe in anything? Or maybe they hate that she doesn’t choose to hate? I’m not sure they even really believe in their disjointed and mindless ideology, their omni-causes and slogans. I think these people just like feeling like they have an enemy, like a child who needs to rage against a parent to feel some sense of control and power.
They hate that Erica remains a living symbol of their guilt EVERY DAY. .
Heh. They don’t realize that when the communists take over the country, they won’t be able to stage BS like that.
These scum mooch off a first amendment that they don’t believe in, and would repeal in a second if they could.
But if we claim that we do believe in it then we must obey it, or it becomes meaningless. So we have to let them behave like this. I would say that we could shame them for it, but they have no shame.
Every time that I hear about something like this, I realize just how RIGHT Michael Savage is. His book titled Liberalism is a Mental Disorder is SO on the mark!
Psychopathic monsters on a par with Hamas.