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Turning Point USA is calling on the NBA to fire an employee who posted profanity-laced comments about Charlie Kirk’s shooting on social media.
Kirk founded TPUSA, a nonprofit organization that focuses on conservative values in high schools and colleges, in 2012. He was shot and killed at Utah Valley University while debating at an on-campus event on September 10.
An NBA employee was suspended two weeks without pay for “violating multiple NBA policies” following profanity-laced posts about Kirk’s shooting, but TPUSA wants more.
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Charlie Kirk speaks at CPAC in Oxon Hill, Maryland. (Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)
“The view of this team, and that of any honest American, is that if anyone is morally depraved enough to celebrate the cold-blooded murder of an innocent husband and father, let alone an American hero like Charlie, then they deserve to be fired immediately,” a TPUSA spokesperson told OutKick, which first reported the employee’s social media posts.
“This is an instant black eye for any employer who refuses to act. This should not be newsworthy or exceptional. We hope that the NBA does not stop at the suspension but goes all the way and fires this individual, as it well deserves.”
The employee called Kirk a “terrible person” and an “asshole” in an Instagram story.
In a post shared by the employee that asked what Kirk’s “legacy” was, the employee wrote that Kirk did not have one.
“He has done absolutely nothing healthy for the world other than spewing dangerous rhetoric… There is no legacy,” the message read.
Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk is seen on stage at Fiserv Forum during preparations for the Republican National Convention on July 14, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images)
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“Oh I also forgot to include ‘thoughts and prayers’. LMAO,” another post read.
It is unclear when the suspension was issued or what policies were violated. The NBA did not respond to an email from PK Press Club Digital regarding those details.
Kirk would have turned 32 on Tuesday. The same day, the President Donald Trump awarded him a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom on Tuesday in a ceremony attended by Kirk’s widow, Erika.
Charlie Kirk speaks at Utah Valley University on September 10, 2025 in Orem, Utah, before his assassination. (Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune/Getty Images)
Kirk’s “Turning Point USA” announced earlier this month that it would host its own Super Bowl halftime show in San Francisco, shortly after the NFL announced Bad Bunny would perform at Levi’s Stadium.
