Khloé Kardashian faced backlash from fans on Thursday night for liking a post that praised the right-wing provocateur Charlie Kirk, who had been shot and killed the previous day.

The 41-year-old reality TV star also left a comment featuring praying-hand emojis and shared what appeared to be a nonpartisan post regarding Kirk’s death. Kirk, aged 31, was shot in the neck by a gunman positioned on a nearby building’s roof at Utah Valley University.

The shooter remains at large, and FBI Director Kash Patel traveled to Utah on Thursday in response to criticisms regarding the bureau’s slow progress in apprehending the suspect. Patel had also faced scrutiny for his decision to fire a renowned special agent in Utah a month earlier, who would have led the hunt for the shooter.

Many of Kardashian’s fans were vocally opposed to Kirk due to his anti-abortion, anti-immigrant, anti-transgender and pro-Second Amendment views.

The Daily Mail has reached out to Kardashian’s representative for comment but hasn’t yet received a response. 

Observers noticed that Kardashian had liked a post from Pray.com’s Instagram account, which featured a video of Kirk sharing a moment with a fan during an event where he discussed his Christian beliefs.

Multiple followers preserved screenshots of the ‘like’ and her comment with three praying-hand emojis under the video, which didn’t discuss Kirk’s widely circulated political and social views. 

They also shared screenshots of a post written by a South Carolina–based chiropractor — who has multiple posts espousing anti-vaccine views — that she shared in her Instagram Stories.

The seemingly non-partisan post bemoaned the country’s current state numbness toward acts of violence, which it declared had ‘nothing to do with left or right or red or blue.’

‘This is the worst thing she’s ever done in my eyes fr. Yuck!!’ wrote one disappointed commenter on Reddit.

Another user vehemently disagreed with the post Kardashian retweeted, writing, ‘This has EVERYTHING to do with politics.

One user claimed that the Keeping Up With The Kardashians star likely wouldn’t address the controversy over her ‘like’ and comment, but if she did, it would be ‘some flimsy “politics aside, he was a husband and a father” explanation.’

‘She sits up in her tower built up on the privilege of not needing to care about politics, they continued in a fury. ‘I will not waste an ounce of empathy on a man who didn’t bat an eye when innocent children were shot in their classrooms.’

They appeared to be referencing a 2023 speech in which Kirk said that some gun deaths were ‘worth it’ in order to preserve the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution. 

‘You will never live in a society when you have an armed citizenry and you won’t have a single gun death. That is nonsense. It’s drivel,’ Kirk said at the Salt Lake City campus of Awaken Church on April 5, 2023. ‘But I am — I think it’s worth it. I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. 

‘That is a prudent deal. It is rational. Nobody talks like this. They live in a complete alternate universe,’ he said.

Others said they weren’t surprised about her response to a faith-centered post due to the reality star’s history of posting bible verses.

One poster responded, ‘They say “politics aside” and [the] whole time the “politics” are that [Kirk] thinks the civil rights act was a mistake and gun deaths are worth it and necessary.’

Some fans made it clear that they weren’t surprised about Kardashian’s response to the posts about Kirk’s killing.

‘It’s always the ones you’d suspect the most,’ wrote one user.

‘Fork found in kitchen,’ joked another person. 

Several users labeled Kirk a ‘white supremacist’ based on multiple offensive comments he made in recent years questioning the intelligence and qualifications of Black people.

They were dismayed that Kardashian had responded approvingly to a post about him despite having biracial children.

‘Tell us you’re crying for a white supremacist without telling us…’ read one comment.

‘like why are you mourning a man that said black people were better off in slavery… SHE HAS MIXED CHILDREN,’ responded another poster.

’empathizing with a white supremacist when you have Black children is a different kind of evil,’ added one user.