Jennifer Welch and Angie Sullivan, hosts of the "I've Had It" podcast, issued an apology Saturday for laughing on air about digging up Charlie Kirk's body and killing him again. The same statement announced they had made a donation to Everytown for Gun Safety, the gun-control organization.
" Both hosts then laughed for more than 20 seconds, per Breitbart's account. A producer was heard saying, "I'm zooming in for Fox," before Welch said, "No comment. No comment on that."
Kirk, the 31-year-old founder of Turning Point USA, was shot and killed September 10, 2025, while speaking at a campus event at Utah Valley University in Orem. Tyler Robinson has been charged with aggravated murder, and prosecutors have said they will seek the death penalty.
On Thursday's episode, the hosts also asserted that Robinson was "a MAGA person" from a "white MAGA family." That claim does not match the public record assembled by other outlets. According to Fox News Digital, cited in coverage by the left-leaning outlet Mediaite, Utah voter registration records show Robinson is unaffiliated with a political party and did not vote in the past two general elections. His mother told police he had grown more supportive of gay and transgender rights before the shooting, according to that same coverage.
The apology, posted to the podcast's Instagram account, read in part: "On Thursday's show, we laughed at a joke about Charlie Kirk. It was an insensitive joke, and we should not have laughed. We regret it, and we apologize. Whatever our political differences, there is nothing funny about gun violence. We've long supported common-sense gun safety reform. To that end, we've made a donation to Everytown for Gun Safety, the largest gun violence prevention organization in America."
Next News Network flagged the episode's central factual error on X, noting that the hosts "laugh about digging up Charlie Kirk, then get one key fact wrong" — a reference to the claim that Kirk's accused killer was a MAGA supporter.
The sponsor consequences arrived quickly. Cash App, Chewy, Boll & Branch, and Lola Blankets all moved to distance themselves from the show within days, per Breitbart. Cash App wrote on X: "We do not condone violence of any kind, and we are no longer sponsors of this podcast." Conservative activist Brian Atlas, whose post drew the Cash App response, claimed the hosts had since "edited and removed the segment" in which they laughed.
The reaction online was not sympathetic. Commenters responding to the apology clip called it insufficient — one wrote, "Horrible apology. These witches didn't take ownership of their behavior and instead tried to make it about guns. Apology not accepted." Another said, "How kind of them, donate to a purely Democrat cause that Charlie never supported." Another noted the timing: "She would've lost her show if she hadn't apologized, but it's meaningless. If she truly hated gun violence, she'd never have laughed at such a thing."
Conservative commentator Collin Rugg amplified the clip and the apology, drawing thousands of replies, many of them demanding that remaining sponsors pull out. Several commenters called for a moratorium on any business still advertising with the show.
The donation is not the only point of contention. Everytown for Gun Safety is the largest gun-control organization in the country and a persistent target of Second Amendment advocates. Sending money to it in Kirk's name is a choice his supporters are unlikely to mistake for contrition.
What the apology did not do is address the substance of what was said on Thursday — either the joke itself or the false claim about the shooter. It also did not explain how the hosts squared their stated opposition to "gun violence" with laughter at the idea of repeating a murder.
Our Take
Let's be clear about what happened here. Two podcast hosts laughed — for twenty seconds — at the idea of exhuming a murdered man and killing him a second time. They did it on a show called "Drinking MAGA Tears." They got caught, advertisers fled, and only then did an apology appear. This is not remorse. This is damage control with a credit card.
And what a telling apology it is. Instead of confronting the ugliness of what they laughed at, Welch and Sullivan reached for the one thing that would let them play the moral high ground: a check to Everytown. Charlie Kirk spent his life defending the Second Amendment. Making a donation to the country's biggest gun-control lobby "in his honor" is not an apology — it's a middle finger dressed up as a press release.
Then there's the claim that Kirk was killed by "a MAGA person." The voter records say otherwise. Robinson was unaffiliated. He didn't vote in the last two general elections. The hosts didn't let any of that get in the way of a convenient narrative — and they still haven't corrected it.
Patriots, this is the playbook. Say something monstrous. Get caught. Issue a statement that reframes you as the righteous one. Move on. The only thing that broke the cycle this time was the advertisers — Cash App, Chewy, and the others who walked. That's the pressure that works. If any sponsor that claimed to have dropped this show quietly comes back, they should hear from every one of us.
Charlie Kirk is dead. He was murdered on a college campus for his beliefs. His widow and children don't get an apology tour. The least the rest of us can do is refuse to let the people who laughed at his grave be rewarded for it. Will you remember which companies stood by this show — and which ones walked away only when it cost them nothing?
