Jennifer Welch and Angie “Pumps” Sullivan were gasping for air following reaction to their disturbingly crude joke made about desecrating Charlie Kirk’s body on their podcast “I’ve Had It.”
With at least ten advertisers dropping their sponsorships and taking their money with them, the pair were adamant that Turning Point USA was the root of the controversy as they begged their fans to keep them afloat.
Co-host Welch began Monday’s podcast episode with a cheeky reminder that they were “completely independently funded media, so please subscribe just by subscribing, that's free,” before outright begging for cash: “If you have some extra money, please join and become a member to both I've Had It and IHip News on YouTube.”
Quick with an empty apology for their misstep that continued to teeter on being fatal, Welch was adamant to give the illusion of being the bigger person on the matter (Click “expand”):
Last Thursday on our flagship podcast, I've Had It, Pumps and I laughed at a, a joke. The next morning I came in and told my team, “take the joke out of the episode, we went too far.” We were on a sugar high from the win. I wanna be better than everybody else. Um, I don't like gun violence, I don't like making light of violence. And so we did that. The next day we put out an apology, and because I condemn all forms of violence, particularly gun violence.
Instead of apologizing and moving on for their “sugar high,” however, Welch decided to point fingers at TPUSA’s official spokesperson Andrew Kolvet:
We made a donation to Everytown for Gun Safety. And for the people who are trying to cancel us, which is mainly spearheaded by Turning Point USA, that's not enough. They don't want to end gun violence. They mocked our donation, and this is all spearheaded by a guy named Andrew Kolvet, and he responded to our apology.
Then began the hate wave for Kolvet.
In reaction to Kolvet’s subtweet responding to the co-host’s disingenuous online apology, that called out the withdrawal of sponsors due to the podcast’s legitimacy of political violence, Sullivan attempted to turn the tables, and argued TPUSA was a racist organization in favor of violence (Click “expand”):
Turning Point USA is just a complete swamp of white supremacy. And I will just say, nothing about the hypocrisy surprises me.
This is an organization that says, I can say whatever I want, but nobody else can. That's who they are. That's how they run. You're not allowed to quote what Charlie Kirk said back to me. No, no, no, no, no, he can say it, but you can't repeat it. That's, that's who we have found out they are, you know, time and time again.
Yet, Welch gave the impression that the “I’ve Had It” podcast was in no danger of sinking, even with her previous plea to her audience for financial support:
Here is Kolvet, this guy, our biggest critic who's leading the cancellation campaign of all of our sponsors and online. Andrew, we're not going anywhere. We funded this on our own four years ago. We're ladies of a certain age that have had careers for a certain amount of years. We're gonna be just fine.
They're trying to talk themselves into it. Nevertheless, Welch was sure to not leave out any minority when covering the bases of who she supports, unlike Kirk or Kolvet:
I condemn with everything in me every single thing that that man said. [Charlie Kirk] is, he was a vile, unrepentant racist. The guy who's carrying the torch for him, Andrew Kolvet, refuses to condemn Nazis, gaslights his followers about state-sanctioned murder that we saw of George Floyd because why? Cause you heard there, Charlie in his own words. Black lives don't matter to them, but for those of you that have watched this channel for four years and have ridden with us all of this time, you know who we advocate for, and it's everyone. [!]
We can make blanket statements that they cannot make. I condemn gun violence. I support the LGBTQ plus movement, and I want them to have equal rights. I condemn racism. I condemn homophobia. I condemn Islamophobia. I condemn political violence, state sanctioned violence, and because I wanna put my money where my mouth is, we donated to Everytown for Gun Safety.
Welch brought her theatrics to a close with one final nod to the fact that her and Sullivan’s apology was accompanied with a donation to Everytown for Gun Safety, and how the cause of death of Kirk doesn’t matter to TPUSA (Click “expand”):
The fundamental difference is we're big girls. We wanna be better at every turn because I want to, when I advocate for these people, I wanna do it clean and clear. I want people to know that you have an ally in me and an ally that when we misstep, we correct.
And if they want to sit in bed wet and pearl clutch for days, just watch them. They're gonna continue to do it. They never wanted an apology. They don't care that we donated to, uh, Everytown for Gun Safety because they don't want to resolve the issue of gun safety. They're fine that every single day we wake up and put on our phones and there's some gun violence that is, uh, being reported.
If Welch and Sullivan made one thing clear, they’re not actually sorry because they should be denouncing the political violence they promote on their show. Instead, they donated to a far-left organization bent on disarming law-abiding citizens.
The transcript is below. Click "expand" to read:
I’ve Had It (YouTube)
November 9, 2026
10:00:04 a.m. Eastern(...)
JENNIFER WELCH: Every morning we get on here and cover the news cycle, we are in it, so we're gonna be covering ourselves. But I would like to remind everybody that we are completely independently funded media, so please subscribe just by subscribing, that's free. If you have some extra money, please join and become a member to both I've Had It and IHip News on YouTube. You get both feeds in one.
All right. Last Thursday on our flagship podcast, I've Had It, Pumps and I laughed at a, a joke. The next morning I came in and told my team, “take the joke out of the episode, we went too far.” We were on a sugar high from the win. I wanna be better than everybody else. Um, I don't like gun violence, I don't like making light of violence. And so we did that. The next day we put out an apology, and because I condemn all forms of violence, particularly gun violence.
We made a donation to Everytown for Gun Safety. And for the people who are trying to cancel us, which is mainly spearheaded by Turning Point USA, that's not enough. They don't want to end gun violence. They mocked our donation, and this is all spearheaded by a guy named Andrew Kolvet, and he responded to our apology.
10:03:31
(...)
WELCH: The difference between you and us, Andrew, is I want my side of the street to be clean, because I wanna advocate against all of these things.
ANGIE SULLIVAN: You know, when I saw that, I thought, isn't it interesting that every single one of the victims of domestic violence in that group– that's fine to hurt and beat at them because Turning Point USA is just a complete swamp of white supremacy. And I will just say, nothing about the hypocrisy surprises me.
This is an organization that says, I can say whatever I want, but nobody else can. That's who they are. That's how they run. You're not allowed to quote what Charlie Kirk said back to me. No, no, no, no, no, he can say it, but you can't repeat it. That's, that's who we have found out they are, you know, time and time again.
WELCH: Here is Kolvet, this guy, our biggest critic who's leading the cancellation campaign of all of our sponsors and online. Andrew, we're not going anywhere. We funded this on our own 4 years ago. We're ladies of a certain age that have had careers for a certain amount of years. We're gonna be just fine.
10:08:98
(...)
WELCH: I condemn with everything in me every single thing that that man said. [Charlie Kirk] is, he was a vile, unrepentant racist. The guy who's carrying the torch for him, Andrew Kolvet, refuses to condemn Nazis, gaslights his followers about state-sanctioned murder that we saw of George Floyd because why? Cause you heard there, Charlie in his own words. Black lives don't matter to them, but for those of you that have watched this channel for 4 years and have ridden with us all of this time, you know who we advocate for, and it's everyone.
We can make blanket statements that they cannot make. I condemn gun violence. I support the LGBTQ plus movement, and I want them to have equal rights. I condemn racism. I condemn homophobia. I condemn Islamophobia. I condemn political violence, state sanctioned violence, and because I wanna put my money where my mouth is, we donated to Everytown for Gun Safety.
10:22:27
(...)
WELCH: The fundamental difference is we're big girls. We wanna be better at every turn because I want to, when I advocate for these people, I wanna do it clean and clear. I want people to know that you have an ally in me and an ally that when we misstep, we correct.
And if they want to sit in bed wet and pearl clutch for days, just watch them. They're gonna continue to do it. They never wanted an apology. They don't care that we donated to, uh, Everytown for Gun Safety because they don't want to resolve the issue of gun safety. They're fine that every single day we wake up and put on our phones and there's some gun violence that is, uh, being reported.
(...)
