Far-left streamer Hasan Piker sang a mockery of the Charlie Kirk tribute song “We Are Charlie Kirk” during his “Fear& LIVE” tour stop in San Francisco over the weekend — drawing cheers and laughter from his audience.
The performance sparked immediate backlash online from conservatives who saw it as desecrating the memory of the influential 31-year-old Turning Point USA founder, who was fatally attacked last September during an appearance at Utah Valley University.
Dressed in what’s becoming his trademark Maoist grey suit, Piker sang, “We are Charlie Kirk, we carry the flame. We’ll fight for the Gospel, we’ll honor his name.”
“We are Charlie Kirk, we carry the flame. We’ll fight for the Gospel, we’ll honor his name.”
Piker sang as audience members joined in, following lyrics scrolling on a large screen behind the stage. His co-hosts laughed. One waved his lit cellphone over his head like a fan at a pop concert.
After he finished, Piker told the screaming audience, “that was the most surreal moment in my entire life.”
The tribute song Piker mocked is thought to be AI-generated. It was released just eight days after Kirk was attacked by an alleged gunman with a high velocity hunting rifle fired from a nearby rooftop.
“We Are Charlie Kirk” is styled as a Christian power ballad, with lyrics like, “He spoke the truth when the cost was high / He lived for Jesus, unafraid to die.”
The song is frequently used online in memes to mock Kirk and other conservatives, Fox News reported.
Piker’s Friday performance became a viral lightning rod.
Turning Point spokesman Andrew Kolvet wrote on X: “Hasan Piker is engaging in pure, unadulterated evil. Whoever gloats over disaster will not go unpunished. Proverbs 17:5.”
Washington Free Beacon investigative reporter Chuck Ross wrote on X: “He’s just a trash human being. Piker was supposed to debate Charlie Kirk a few days after he was attacked. Piker actually talked about how much it shook him. Now, he’s mocking it all for the pleasure of his loser fans.”
Constitutional law professor Jonathan Turley posted on X that more shocking than Piker was the “ecstasy of the crowd in relishing the death of someone with opposing views.”
“Ecstasy of the crowd in relishing the death of someone with opposing views.” — Jonathan Turley
Ironically, another X account posted video showing Kirk and Piker joking with one another — the conservative activist even giving the left-wing streamer a friendly fist bump on the shoulder. In the past, Kirk had debated Piker on socialism.
According to Fox News, Piker’s influence over the Democratic Party as democratic socialists rise in the 2026 cycle has become one of the top media stories this year. He has campaigned alongside several prominent candidates, including Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed.
Piker also reposted an account going after his critics, which read, “The same conservatives crying over Hasan singing a meme song were openly celebrating the murder of American citizens. These people don’t care about anything.”
It hasn’t been made clear what “murder of American citizens” Piker was talking about.
The callous performance comes just two weeks before the anniversary of Kirk’s passing last September.
Hasan sings “We Are Charlie Kirk” at the Fear& live tour pic.twitter.com/n4rGVTREyB
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— hasanabi (@hasanthehun) August 22, 2026
