The Left's Rising New Star Hasan Piker Endorses Terrorism, Violence and Suggested the President Should Be Assassinated
By C. Douglas Golden
April 27, 2026 at 5:13am
Hasan Piker’s week-long media debutante ball has — alas — been spoiled by someone who lived out the leftist influencer’s rhetoric.
Those of you who pay attention to these things — and count yourself fortunate if you aren’t — may have noticed that the far-left Twitch streamer with over 3 million followers suddenly got an entrée into polite media society last week with an airy, soft-lit video chat hosted by The New York Times and featuring Nadja Spiegelman, the newspaper’s culture editor, and Jia Tolentino, a writer for The New Yorker.
Piker has gotten play in the legacy media before — glowing profiles in the Times, the newspaper’s galling decision to let him write a commentary political violence in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s assassination, despite the fact he himself loves calling for political violence when it results in audience capture. But the Times roundtable, with two of the most prestigious journalists the left-bubble Gotham media machine has to offer, was the clearest attempt to prestige-wash Piker’s inchoate, rambling political philosophy into something that fits within the window of sane political discourse.
https://www.westernjournal.com/lefts-rising-new-star-hasan-piker-endorses-terrorism-violence-suggested-president-assassinated/
