People on social media are bizarrely accusing Erika Kirk of making the ‘devil horn’ symbol with her hand during her husband’s memorial service in Arizona on Sunday.
Charlie Kirk’s grieving widow made a hand gesture, which means ‘I love you’ in sign language, while on stage beside President Donald Trump at his memorial.
After making a speech in tribute to her late husband, Kirk, 36, who is a devout Christian, raised her arm with her index and pinky fingers raised.
Some people online have made the vile claim that this was a ‘satanic hand symbol’ intended to evoke devil horns in unhinged social media posts which have gone viral.
Fans of Erika Kirk hit back against the slew of hate against the mother-of-two by pointing out that her gesture also means ‘I love you’ in sign language.
‘PSA: Erika Kirk’s hand sign at the end was sign language for I love you. Not a satanic hand sign. Dear lord… please give me strength on this app,’ one exasperated X user wrote.
‘It’s sign language for ‘love you’,’ another person agreed. ‘Ignorance is exactly why people commit violence. LEARN THINGS! Don’t spew evil where none exists.’
The flood of posts defending the former Miss Arizona came after several people parroted the deranged ‘devil hand’ claims.
People on social media are bizarrely accusing Erika Kirk of making the ‘devil horn’ symbol with her hand during her husband’s funeral in Arizona on Sunday. The gesture, as pictured above, means ‘I love you’ in sign language, as fans of Erika Kirk pointed out while defending her
Erika Kirk delivered powerful remarks on her husband’s life and legacy, while astonishingly forgiving his alleged assassin Tyler Robinson. (Pictured: Charlie and Erika Kirk)
At the memorial, Erika Kirk forgave her husband’s alleged killer, Tyler Robinson (pictured)
‘I caught this hand sign from Ericka Kirk which is a Devil/Owl sign people use in dark meetings and rock-on concerts,’ one man mused on X.
‘Why would she make this hand signal as a professing Christian and being knowledgeable of these things?’
‘What is happening? Erika Kirk throwing up a satanic hand symbol to end off Charlie’s funeral?!?!’ another wrote.
‘I hope she doesn’t realize what she’s doing, but this is definitely suspicious!’
Referring to Kirk standing next to the president at the moment she made the signal, a third man said: ‘Sorry, I love Trump and Charlie Kirk, and I don’t want to spoil the party.
‘But why did Erika wait until she was standing with the most famous man alive, in front of the whole world, at the most significant moment of her life, to throw up the devil-horned gesture?’
The devil hand gesture, which is also associated with the ‘rock on’ motion seen at rock concerts, involves the index and pinky fingers being raised, while the other fingers and thumb are tucked in.
Meanwhile, the sign for ‘I love you’ in sign language is the same but with the thumb also raised, as in the motion made by Erika Kirk.
Her symbol came after she delivered powerful remarks on her husband’s life and legacy, while astonishingly forgiving his alleged assassin Tyler Robinson.
The 31-year-old MAGA firebrand ‘wanted to save young men just like the one who took his life,’ Erika Kirk said at her husband’s memorial. (Pictured: Erika Kirk at the funeral service)
The 31-year-old MAGA influencer ‘wanted to save young men just like the one who took his life,’ Erika Kirk said at her husband’s memorial.
Referring to Robinson, she added: ‘I forgive him,’ as the crowd erupted in applause. ‘I forgive him because it’s what Christ did. The answer to hate is not hate.’
Earlier at the service, Trump and Elon Musk put their differences aside a week after the conservative activist was shot and killed at the University of Utah campus.
The former rivals were seen chatting in Trump’s box before the president gave Musk a friendly pat on the back – moments before the Tesla tycoon stood up and walked out.
Their complicated history boiled over in June 2025, when the pair clashed in a fiery exchange on X.
Musk had posted, and then swiftly deleted, a bombshell claim that federal authorities held extra information on Trump in the Jeffrey Epstein files, even going so far as to suggest the president should be impeached.
The president led mourners at the memorial of Charlie Kirk, addressing tens of thousands gathered inside State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.
Trump was joined on stage by Vice President JD Vance and senior members of his Cabinet, with security around the stadium described as ‘extraordinarily tight.’
