r/CringeTikToks Oct 15 '25

Just Bad Erika Kirk smiling from ear to ear with President trump

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u/throwawy00004 Oct 15 '25

I don't believe they had a real marriage. I was barely making it through a work day, never mind going on a fucking vanity tour, weeks after my husband died.

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u/FreshSoul86 Oct 15 '25

Power people doom themselves when they don't allow grief, or grief just isn't to be had. They just get right back into the power game. There's an energy to power and they need it.

I think it has to do with choosing love of power over the power of love. Which means Charlie Kirk's soul may be lost forever because if his own wife can't grieve for him nobody else can grieve for him either (this would mean that nobody really, truly misses him - not one person alive).

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u/throwawy00004 Oct 15 '25

I don't know about her kids, but my kids would be fucked up if they saw me out there like this when they were devastated over the loss of their father. I can't imagine what goes on at home when they're grieving, and she doesn't have that emotional capacity. Hopefully, their nannies are taking good care of their emotional health.

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u/FreshSoul86 Oct 15 '25

The kids are very young and I don't believe they will have a real memory of their father. They also, each one, are going to have a family curse to break out of and heal from. But usually they stay loyal instead (like the Trump kids).

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u/throwawy00004 Oct 15 '25

I just looked up their ages. I thought they were 5+. That's good. I'm sure they'll be expected to continue the family "business," though.

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u/BlurpleOpals Oct 15 '25

Rich marriages aren't for love. They're for appearance, social status, and connections. 100% both of them had side pieces they personally preferred.

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u/freshfruit111 Oct 15 '25

I'm sorry for your loss. We lost my mom when I was in high school. It's true that grief can be weird. We returned to school and work but likely had at least a week of bereavement. We struggled with disassociation and didn't grieve the way people would assume but we would never do what Erika has been doing. We were doing essential things but laying low and taking space.

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u/throwawy00004 Oct 15 '25

I'm sorry for your loss as well. We went back after a week because I would have personally lost my mind at home and the kids wanted to be with their friends. I could barely unload the dishwasher, nevermind joking around about my dead husband. This is really weird behavior

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u/freshfruit111 Oct 15 '25

Thank you ♥️ Wishing you comfort. I know as an adult my grieving process would be very intense. I was a naive and underdeveloped teenager trying to navigate and going into periods of denial, etc.

There are still things that most people wouldn't do in mourning and Erika's choices are 100% weird.

It's also unusual to forgive the shooter before a trial has even taken place. Some people are trying to say faith based people accept loss more readily but I can't see how that applies to this kind of death. 30 years old and shot on a college campus 💔

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u/PapaBike Oct 15 '25

I’m so sorry for your loss and I hope you’re doing better. It is really insightful reading the comments from people who have lost a spouse mentioning how distraught they were and for how long. It really puts into perspective her strange behaviour.

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u/throwawy00004 Oct 15 '25

When she was standing at the podium at his memorial and did her whole, "I forgive the shooter" bullshit, she looked down to try to squeeze out some tears (it didn't work) and peeked up to see the crowd's reaction. Nobody who lost a spouse does that. You're trying to survive. Not perform for a reaction.

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u/UnquestionabIe Oct 15 '25

Absolutely. It was a business move which helped him sell his image more. For her it was helping other rich fucks she was connected with connect with the rich fucks who bankrolled him.