Hasan Piker sang the song “We Are Charlie Kirk” — an AI-generated song that is widely used to mock Kirk’s death in far-left circles — during a live podcast event at the Golden Gate Theatre in San Francisco on Friday.
Video footage from the performance showed Piker leading the audience in singing portions of the track in a karaoke-style format, with lyrics displayed on screen. He sang the lines “We are Charlie Kirk, we carry the flame. We’ll fight for the Gospel, we’ll honor his name.”
The crowd cheered, and his co-hosts were visibly laughing. At one point during the segment, Piker — who was wearing an ill-fitting Mao Zedong outfit — was heard indicating that the moment was among the most surreal of his life. He later shared a photograph from the show on social media with the caption “carried the flame tn.”
Hasan sings “We Are Charlie Kirk” at the Fear& live tour pic.twitter.com/n4rGVTREyB
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Piker has previously made statements involving violence or support for groups designated as terrorist organizations by the United States. In one stream, he said regarding landlords, “Kill them. Kill those motherf***ers. Murder those motherf***ers in the street. Let the streets soak in their fucking red capitalist blood, dude.”
He also called on his supporters to kill Republican Senator Rick Scott in a separate stream. “Left-wingers, liberals, you need to be fuc***g showing your opponents’ guts on there, you need to be gutting them. You need to be shanking these motherf***ers and letting their fuc***g intestines writhe on-stage. Slice them up. Slice ’em and fucking dice ’em,” he said in another.
Piker has also stated that America “deserved” the September 11, 2001, attacks. Regarding the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks, Piker stated, “It doesn’t matter if f***ing rapes happened on October 7th. Like, that doesn’t change the dynamic for me.”
He has also said, “I would vote for Hamas over Israel every single time” and “Hamas is a thousand times better than” Israel. Piker has expressed positive views of Mao Zedong, describing him as “one of the great leaders of this world,” and has referenced support for groups including Hezbollah and the Houthis.
Despite all this, a number of Democrats have gleefully campaigned with him, including Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed.
