{"id":84769,"date":"2026-04-26T21:19:20","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T21:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/christine-quinn-slams-erika-kirk-crying-amid-whcd-shooting\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T21:19:20","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T21:19:20","slug":"christine-quinn-slams-erika-kirk-crying-amid-whcd-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/christine-quinn-slams-erika-kirk-crying-amid-whcd-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Christine Quinn Slams Erika Kirk Crying Amid WHCD Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>Selling Sunset <\/i><b>Christine Quinn <\/b>had a pointed reaction after seeing <b>Erika Kirk <\/b>(n\u00e9e Frantzve) in attendance at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association Dinner before a shooting broke out, canceling the annual event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cErika Kirk leaving the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner in tears [saying], \u2018I just wanna go home,\u2019\u201d Quinn, 37, captioned <span class=\"s1\">X<\/span> footage of Kirk, 37, being escorted out of the Saturday, April 25, event by security officials. \u201cGirl \u2026 you literally never been home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Kirk attended the Correspondents\u2019 Dinner as a Fox News guest, where CNN reporters claimed that<span class=\"s1\"> she left the venue in tears<\/span> amid the gunfire. During the dinner, <b>President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, <\/b>first lady<b> Melania Trump<\/b> and other members of Trump\u2019s cabinet were also escorted out after gunfire erupted outside the ballroom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cQuite an evening in D.C. Secret Service and Law Enforcement did a fantastic job. They acted quickly and bravely,\u201d Donald, 79, wrote in a statement via his Truth Social platform, confirming he and his wife were safe. \u201cThe shooter has been apprehended, and I have recommended that we \u2018LET THE SHOW GO ON\u2019 but, will entirely be guided by Law Enforcement. They will make a decision shortly. Regardless of that decision, the evening will be much different than planned, and we\u2019ll just, plain, have to do it again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><b>Weijia Jiang<\/b>, the president of the WHCA, later announced that dinner would be rescheduled later this month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cLaw enforcement has requested that we leave the premises. \u2026 [The president] wanted to emphasize that nobody was hurt,\u201d Jiang said in a statement later on Saturday. \u201cThe cabinet and the first lady, everybody\u2019s safe. I said earlier tonight that journalism is a public service because when there is an emergency we run toward the crisis, not away from it \u2026 I saw all of you reporting and that\u2019s what we do. Thank God everybody is safe and thank you for coming together tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Kirk, for her part, has not publicly addressed her WHCD attendance or tearful request to leave. Erika\u2019s husband, late conservative commentator <b>Charlie Kirk<\/b>, had been shot and killed during a speaking engagement in September 2025. He was 31.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Charlie, who is survived by Erika and the pair\u2019s two children, was the founder of Turning Point USA. Erika has since been elected the CEO of the organization. As Erika took over her husband\u2019s company with a slew of highly public appearances,<span class=\"s1\"> she has been criticized<\/span> for apparently moving on too soon.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Erika-split.jpg?crop=0px%2C0px%2C2000px%2C1131px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Erika-split.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-fallback-img=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Erika-split.jpg?quality=55&amp;strip=all\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n<p>    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Erika Kirk Cancels Appearance With VP JD Vance After \u2018Very Serious Threats\u2018<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tErika Kirk canceled an appearance at a Turning Point USA event alongside Vice President JD Vance amid alleged security threats. Kirk, 37, was scheduled to headline the political organization\u2019s University of Georgia event alongside Vance, 41, on Tuesday, April 14, but confirmed her withdrawal via X that very evening. \u201cI was so looking forward to [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThere is no linear blueprint for grief. One day you\u2019re collapsed on the floor crying out the name Jesus in between labored breaths,\u201d Erika wrote via Instagram in October 2025. \u201cThe next you\u2019re playing with your children in the living room, surrounded by family photos and feeling a rush of something you can only attempt to define as divinely planted and bittersweet joy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Erika also recently canceled her Turning Point appearance at the University of Georgia over alleged security concerns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe specific threats were targeting her and her ability to get to and from the event,\u201d a source <span class=\"s1\">exclusively told <i>Us Weekly<\/i><\/span><i> <\/i>earlier in April. \u201cHer security team felt that they could not protect her life, so as you can imagine, for a mother of two young kids who just lost her husband in the way that she did, she felt that she had to take her security team\u2019s advice.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Selling Sunset Christine Quinn had a pointed reaction after seeing Erika Kirk (n\u00e9e Frantzve) in attendance at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association Dinner before a shooting broke out, canceling the annual event. \u201cErika Kirk leaving the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner in tears [saying], \u2018I just wanna go home,\u2019\u201d Quinn, 37, captioned X footage of Kirk, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84770,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_daextam_enable_autolinks":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-trends-and-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Christine-Quinn-and-Erika-Kirk.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}