Charlie Kirk and Young Democrats president get into spat at DNC: ‘You’re crashing our party’
Young Democrats of Georgia president Parker Short got into a spat with Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) on Monday, slamming him for “crashing our party.”
A video, posted by Kirk and starting partway through the confrontation, captures Short questioning him about Donald Trump’s false claims that the 2020 election in Georgia was unconstitutional.
In the caption of the post, Kirk wrote: “Within 30 seconds of walking into the United Centre, I was confronted by this guy,” speaking about Short. “Apparently, he’s the President of the Young Democrats of Georgia?”
In the footage, the young Democrat can be heard telling Kirk, an avid Trump supporter: “You’re an anti-patriotic, anti-constitutional person crashing our party because you tried to obstruct our democracy.”
Kirk responded with: “What is a woman?”
This question follows a pattern of anti-transgender rhetoric from the conservative podcast host, who seven weeks ago posted a clip on Instagram of a mom claiming she, her young son and her mother were kicked off a flight because she used incorrect pronouns for a flight attendant.
“Deep down, everybody knows that trans people are mentally unwell,” Kirk wrote in the caption.
Short made no effort to hide his shock and disgust at the young Republican bizarrely choosing this route with which to hit back at him.
“Oh my god,” he exclaimed, before using one of Democrats current favorite buzzwords for Republicans against him: “That is so f*****g weird y’all!”
“Maybe you should meet one,” Short said while walking away, to which Kirk replied: “I’m married to one.”
Keen to get the last word in, Short laughed: “Same!”
In 2021, Kirk married Erika Frantzve, who was the 2012 Miss Arizona USA