Debunked: ‘The Simpsons’ Never Showed Charlie Kirk’s Death

A pho­to of Char­lie Kirk being shot at a UVU Turn­ing Point USA event was turned into a Simp­sons char­ac­ter and claimed as a pre­dic­tion of his death

WASHINGTON, DC: ‘The Simp­sons’ is pop­u­lar for pre­dict­ing many well-known his­tor­i­cal moments of the Unit­ed States, years before they actu­al­ly hap­pen. 

How­ev­er, events are often mis­tak­en­ly claimed to have been pre­dict­ed by ‘The Simp­sons’, going viral even when no such pre­dic­tion actu­al­ly occurred.

Recent­ly, a rumor cir­cu­lat­ed online claim­ing that ‘The Simp­sons’ pre­dict­ed con­ser­v­a­tive icon Char­lie Kirk’s death before it actu­al­ly hap­pened on Sep­tem­ber 10. But is there any truth to this? Let us find out below.

Claim: ‘The Simpsons’ predicted Charlie Kirk’s death

Last week, a pho­to of the moment Char­lie Kirk was shot dead while speak­ing at a Turn­ing Point USA event in Utah was ren­dered into a ‘The Simp­sons’ char­ac­ter, and was spread, claim­ing that the series had pre­dict­ed it.

An X user shared the pic­tures and wrote, “The life and lega­cy of Char­lie Kirk have tak­en a cru­el twist — whis­pers are spread­ing that his trag­ic sto­ry has been turned into an unre­leased Simp­sons episode, reduced to a car­toon satire for cheap laughs.”

“What was once a real man’s strug­gle and sac­ri­fice is now rumored to be mocked on screen, leav­ing many shocked at how low some will go to turn pain into par­o­dy,” the post added.

Anoth­er X post seemed to make a sim­i­lar claim that Kirk’s death was pre­dict­ed by ‘The Simp­sons’.

False: The image shared on X is AI-generated

The claims made in the online rumor are false, as the pic­tures that have been cir­cu­lat­ed across social media are AI-gen­er­at­ed and ‘The Simp­sons’ did not pre­dict Kirk’s death.

A com­mu­ni­ty note on X read, “The Simp­sons did not pre­dict the shoot­ing of Char­lie Kirk. The image on the left, done in the Simp­sons style, has mul­ti­ple char­ac­ters in the back­ground that are miss­ing facial fea­tures, a com­mon issue with AI-gen­er­at­ed images.”

More­over, search­es on search engines, such as Google, or even on YouTube, showed no such episode of ‘The Simp­sons’ where they pre­dict­ed the con­ser­v­a­tive icon’s trag­ic killing.

‘The Simp­sons’ has sur­pris­ing­ly mir­rored real events over the years. It pre­dict­ed Cypress Hill per­form­ing with the Lon­don Sym­pho­ny Orches­tra in 2024 way back in 1996

Sim­i­lar­ly, Lisa Simpson’s 2000 out­fit resem­bled Kamala Har­ris’ 2021 inau­gu­ra­tion look.

Expert claims Charlie Kirk’s killer had more fear of his father than the crime he committed

World-renowned com­mu­ni­ca­tion and body lan­guage expert Dr Lil­lian Glass told the Dai­ly Mail that Tyler Robin­son, the 22-year-old man who shot Char­lie Kirk, his last mes­sages to his part­ner revealed a man detached from the grav­i­ty of his crime.

Glass told the out­let, “He cer­tain­ly has revealed him­self. He shows he was con­cerned more about his father’s reac­tion to los­ing the gun than tak­ing someone’s life. His biggest fear is his father’s wrath.”

More­over, Robin­son wor­ried about the fate of the rifle, fit­ted with a $2,000 scope, and about what he would tell his father if he failed to return it.

“How will I explain los­ing it to my old man…,” Robin­son wrote.

“Robinson’s response indi­cat­ed that he is liv­ing in a delu­sion and actu­al­ly thinks he is going to get away with what he has just done,” Dr Glass said.