Erika Kirk Slams Washington Post’s Wardrobe Focus at Faith Event: ‘Go Touch Grass’ [WATCH]

Turning Point USA CEO Erika Kirk delivered a sharp response to The Washington Post on Wednesday after the paper published an article scrutinizing her clothing choices, using the moment to criticize what she described as misplaced priorities in modern culture, as reported by Fox News.

Kirk was speaking at the kickoff of TPUSA Faith’s inaugural “Make Heaven Crowded” tour at Harvest Church, just outside Los Angeles.

The event marked the launch of a California leg of the religious revival tour organized by Turning Point USA.

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Earlier this month, The Washington Post published an article headlined that Kirk was “walking a fine line in a glittering pantsuit,” focusing on her wardrobe as she continues to lead Turning Point USA following the assassination of her husband, Charlie Kirk, last year.

The article was written by Washington Post fashion writer Ashley Fetters Maloy.

“Kirk, a mother to two toddlers, continues to take on public-facing leadership duties while promoting traditional ideas about prioritizing marriage and motherhood, and her clothes are attempting to walk the same high wire … her styling of late suggests that she’s aware that she now needs to be able to blend into mainstream, secular, political contexts well enough to be taken seriously — but not so well as to be mistaken for a career woman or a feminist,” Maloy wrote.

During her remarks at the church, Kirk drew a lesson from the Garden of Eden, contrasting meaningful pursuits with distractions she said pull people away from what matters most.

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“And that is our day and age right now. There’s this kind of curiosity that is so innocent and God-given, which is precious. And that’s the type where you’re searching for more beautiful things, and the eternal things,” Kirk said.

“But then there’s also this curiosity that just pulls you away from what matters most.”

“And I am seeing it on full display,” she continued.

“It invites you to distraction. It feeds your fears. It makes you half of a person. It makes you even question your faith. It puts you in a position where you’re reacting, feeling like you have to respond when you actually don’t have to respond. And quite honestly, we live in a culture that is just endlessly curious about things that don’t matter.”

Kirk then directly referenced the Washington Post article. “I mean, for example, I had a Washington Post article come out about the clothes that I wear. Like, very slow news day out there,” she said. “If you are now attacking a widow’s attire, like, that’s where we’re at.”

She went on to address the paper directly.

“If you would like to know, Washington Post, I’m wearing a black outfit with a pair of Air Forces because I’m a sneakerhead. So if you would like to know what I’m wearing, you can call me, and I’d be happy to explain that I just wear what I wear because it’s comfortable. I don’t have a stylist. Like, I don’t really care. I just am myself,” Kirk said, drawing cheers from the crowd.

“Again, go touch grass,” she added. “Go walk in nature. Charlie loved to hike. Like, maybe take up hiking as a hobby? Just throwing it out there.”

The Washington Post did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital.

The article prompted criticism on social media, including from former Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, who wrote, “For crying out loud will this s— never end.”

Longtime Kirk family friend Jack Posobiec responded, “Erika isn’t ‘prioritizing marriage’ because a radical leftist shot and killed her husband. Good Lord. These people will never stop attacking the Kirk family.”

Axios reporter Marc Caputo also weighed in, saying, “I’ve been reporting for a quarter century now, and I still remember at my first daily newspaper job, we had to read a style guide that specifically cautioned reporters to be very careful about describing women’s clothes in depth because it can be viewed as sexist.”

Conservative radio host Jason Rantz questioned the article’s publication, asking, “How does this get printed?”

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