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Charlamagne tha God issued slammed people celebrating the cold-blooded assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson — and delivered a reality check about it’s larger meaning.
“I don’t understand why people are celebrating him being killed,” the radio host said Friday on his show “The Breakfast Club.” “His kids don’t got no father.”
Charlamagne argued that Luigi Mangione, who is accused of gunning down Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel in a well-planned hit, has done nothing to help ordinary Americans.
“The healthcare system is still the same today,” he said. “The health companies still denying claims and everything today. So what did that accomplish, and why are you happy about him being gunned down like that?”
Many netizens reacted to the Dec. 4 killing with nothing short of glee, because of alleged flaws with the health insurance industry.
When police finally arrested Mangione, a troubling number of people hailed the affluent Ivy League grad as a hero, showering him with praise and even offering to pay his legal fees.
They also heaped a share of scorn on the unnamed fast food worker who spotted Luigi at a McDonalds in Pennsylvania, branding him a “snitch” and a “rat.”
Charlamagne said Thompson was no monster — and his killer is no hero.
He urged listeners to both recognize Thompson as a fellow human being and quit romanticizing the ruthless criminal who ended his life.
“That 26-year-old Luigi or whatever his name is, he gonna be in jail for the rest of his life,” the host said.
Mangione — a rich kid who hails from a prominent Maryland real estate family — is probably a sociopathic narcissist, mental health experts told The Post.
“There’s a level of grandiosity in his decision that his own opinions would merit his complete disregard for some of the most basic laws of our society,” said Manhattan psychologist Dr. Chloe Carmichael
Mangione’s social media posts — plus a short manifesto found on his person when he was arrested — show a confused ideology that ranges from preaching against capitalism to railing against wokeness, experts said.
He has also shown a particular admiration for Ted Kaczynski, a.k.a. “the Unabomber.”
“Antisocial personality disorder is when people lack the ability to have empathy and compassion for other humans,” said New York psychotherapist Alyson Cohen, who compared Mangione to serial killers like Ted Bundy and Charles Cohen. “With a cold-blooded killer, the cold-bloodedness is literally a lack of emotional consideration.”