Conservative political commentator Charlie Kirk caused no shortage of controversy throughout his lifetime for his criticism of celebrities like Taylor Swift and Miley Cyrus.

Mere weeks before he died after he was shot during a speech at Utah Valley University in September 2025, Kirk reacted to Swift’s engagement to Travis Kelce by encouraging the singer to “submit” to her future husband.

“You’re not in charge [when you’re married],” he warned Swift on his podcast.

While Kirk was a frequent critic of Hollywood culture, he did ally with conservative celebrities such as Kelce’s Kansas City Chiefs teammate Harrison Butker and even defended Sydney Sweeney over her American Eagle controversy. (Sweeney and American Eagle were accused of using an ad about “great jeans” as a double entendre for

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