A man with long, curly hair speaks during a live broadcast on LBC, wearing a light pink sweater against a blue background.

A man with long, curly hair speaks during a live broadcast on LBC, wearing a light pink sweater against a blue background.
Ousted Oxford Union President George Abaraonye on LBC.

The student who was ousted as the president of the prestigious Oxford Union after celebrating the assassination of Charlie Kirk says he just wanted to make people laugh.

After news broke that Kirk had been fatally shot by a lunatic leftist during an event at Utah Valley University back in September, George Abaraonye wrote: “Let’s fucking go.”

In an interview with the British radio station LBC, Abaraonye did his best to salvage whatever is left of his reputation.

“[It was] a stupid and silly thing for me to say, I reacted to a notification and the headline. I had no context for, you know, what had happened.”

“I didn’t really understand the severity of the situation.”

When pressed by host Lewis Goodall about having personally met Charlie Kirk, Abaraonye blamed Kirk’s “polarizing” conservative ideology.

Mr Kirk’s comments don’t exist in a vacuum, you know.

He was an incredibly, kind of, polarizing figure and I think it’s almost a symptom of him and my reaction of kind of how we have discourse online, in which you know, it’s oftentimes about saying something almost inflammatory because I wanted to spark a conversation about kind of what had happened.

The fact that, oh my God, this is such a major event that has taken place. I wanted to get a reaction, I wanted to have a conversation.

Watch the clip below:

Goodall then suggested he just wanted to make people laugh.

“Almost exactly like a laugh and a bit of a reaction and kind of, I realized afterwards that you know that wasn’t the right way to about it.”

Abaraonye was removed as president of the Oxford Union last month after losing a vote of no-confidence.

During his campaign to win the vote, Abaraonye portrayed himself as a man fighting against the far-right.

“Today is your opportunity to affirm Free Speech, to stand against the racism of the Far Right, and to stand up for the principles the Union has championed for 200 years,” he said on the day of the vote.

“Two centuries later, the same people who claim to believe in the Union are now acting in stark opposition to the Union’s founding principles, by supporting a campaign of harassment, censorship, and abuse. We will not be silenced.”

However, Abaraonye’s unfortunately fell on deaf ears after his opponents reached the two-thirds majority in order to secure his removal.

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