Tucker Carlson paused for just a moment during his heartwarming eulogy to the late Charlie Kirk and named what he saw and felt in front of an estimated 200,000 people celebrating the life of the 31-year-old religious and political giant who was slain by a radicalized assassin on a Utah college campus just days before.
For context, Tucker Carlson had joined President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, many other prominent officials in the administration and conservative movement, and hundreds of thousands of regular Americans to pay tribute to the assassinated founder of Turning Point USA and the man whom Vance credited for helping him become the vice president and the same man who is credited for getting out the youth vote to deliver Trump to victory in the 2024 election.
Charlie Kirk’s memorial service at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona turned into a day-long event remembering, honoring, and celebrating the loving husband and father. The Christian Tribune followed the lead of other reporting outlets and wrote on the day that more than 200,000 people turned out, with most being led to overflow areas and indeed a second arena entirely.
Captioning the moment that Tucker Carlson reflected on what he sensed – “God is here…you can feel it” – barely left a dry eye in the audience. “Wow! Tucker Carlson doesn’t leave a dry eye in Arizona during heartwarming tribute to Charlie Kirk,” captioned a video sharing the thirty second-long clip.
“It’s real. This is the most unbelievable thing I think I’ve ever seen, and I don’t what whatever happens next in America. I hope it’s in this direction, because God is here, and you can feel it. And Charlie would have loved this, not just because he loved large groups of people, but because, ultimately, he was a Christian evangelist, and it actually reminds me of my favorite story ever,” Carlson shared, capturing both the mood of the moment and the larger sense that Kirk’s work and ultimate death will not have been in vain.
Carlson would go on to remark that Kirk’s assassination reminded him of another sacrificed man. He said immediately following that solemn observation, “So it’s about 2000 years ago in Jerusalem, and Jesus shows up, and he starts talking about the people in power, and he starts doing the worst thing that you can do, which is telling the truth about people, and they hate it, and they just go bonkers.”
He continued: “They hate it, and they become obsessed with making him stop this guy’s got to stop talking. We’ve got to shut this guy up. And I can just sort of picture the scene in a lamp lit room with a bunch of guys sitting around eating hummus, thinking about, what do we do about this guy telling the truth about us? We must make him stop talking.”
“And there’s always one guy with the bright idea, and I can just hear him say, I’ve got an idea. Why don’t we just kill him? That’ll shut him up, that’ll fix the problem. It doesn’t work that way.
It doesn’t work that way. Everything is inverted,” Carlson finished, noting that the parallels were quite similar in the sense that Kirk’s voice will now be louder than ever in the fight against power-hungry tyrants.
Watch that incredible moment below:
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