Teachers Get Death Threats After MAGA Claims Their Halloween Costumes Mocked Charlie Kirk

Staff at an Arizona high school have been overwhelmed and inundated with online attacks and received multiple death threats. Turning Point USA Wrongly accused a group of teachers of wearing Halloween costumes that allegedly mocked them Assassination of TPUSA co-founder Charlie Kirk.

On Friday, members of the Cienega High School math department wore matching, off-white T-shirts with “Problem Solving” emblazoned across the front in black letters. A photo of the group was posted on the Vail School District Facebook page. The district’s superintendent, John Carruth, said in a statement that no students or parents had complained about school day attire.

Then, on Saturday, Andrew Colvette, who was an executive producer on Charlie Kirk’s show, posted the photo on X. [Vail School District] mocks Charlie’s murder,” Colvette wrote.

The white t-shirt, implied by Colvette, resembles the one Kirk wore when he wore the “Freedom” t-shirt. Killed while talking Sept. 10 at Utah Valley University in Orem, Utah.

Colvette’s post went viral and was viewed nearly 10 million times before it was deleted after she was contacted on Tuesday.

Soon after Colvette’s post went live, Cienega High School was bombarded with social media posts, comments, direct messages, emails and at least one voicemail containing racial slurs, calls for teachers to be fired, personal information about school staff and explicit threats of violence. The school shared the messages with Wired

The school district immediately responded to the allegations, clarifying on Facebook that the costumes were not a reference to Kirk’s murder and that the math department had in fact worn the same costumes a year earlier.

“We want to clarify that these shirts were part of a math-themed Halloween costume that represented solving difficult math problems,” wrote Carruth, the superintendent. “The shirts were never intended to target any person, event or political issue.” The Vail School District provided WIRED with a copy of an email dated Oct. 31, 2024, which includes a photo of the same outfit.

Although Colvette acknowledged Carruth’s statement and later acknowledged in a post on Saturday X that the dresses were worn a year ago, he did not remove his original post.

“It’s a very weird outfit for teachers in general, but after what happened with Charlie, I’m absolutely floored they’re wearing it again,” Colvette wrote. “I don’t believe for one second that they are all innocent.”