Fact Check: Charlie Kirk Did NOT Say "If somebody ever shoots me through the neck ... I lowkey think that rocks"

Lead Stories ^ | Sep 10, 2025 | Dean Miller

[nickcarraway]

Did conservative activist Charlie Kirk, shot and killed September 10, 2025, ever say "If somebody ever shoots me through the neck during a speech in Utah in 2025, I lowkey think that rocks". No, that's not true: There's no public record of Kirk saying what was attributed to him by a social media post. That post showed a fake CNN headline which did not appear on their website.

The quote was part of a September 10, 2025 X post (archived here) on the @jeremysmiles account with the text:

"damn there really is a Charlie Kirk quote for every aspect of this story huh"

This is what the image in post looked like on X at the time this fact check was written:

(Image source: Lead Stories screenshot of the image in a post at x.com/jeremysmiles.)

Kirk's provocative debates with college students were widely covered in the news and also widely discussed on social media.

A Google Search using the "site" operator to limit results to pages on cnn.com returned no results (archived here) for pages with the phrase "If somebody ever shoots me through the neck during a speech in Utah in 2025".

Lead Stories used key words to search the Google News index of thousands of news sites. That search (archived here) found no instances of Kirk saying that:

[nickcarraway]

What is wrong with people? And I assume only some of the more deluded Democrats would believe this could possibly be true?

[Lockbox]

You can’t fix stupid.

[simpson96]

Looked at his X account. The subject is a wannabe comedian/attention whore.

[TigersEye]

And I assume only some of the more deluded Democrats would believe this could possibly be true?

Yes, that would only be a few million of them.

I am not kidding.

[roving]

That last sentence didn’t even make sense.