[ April 28, 2026 ]
ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel tells Melania Trump she has “a glow like an expectant Widow” while pretending to host the White House Correspondents dinner a couple days before the attempt on Trump’s life.
This has to stop.
Kimmel must be fired.
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The left has weaponized the legacy media so thoroughly, so completely, over forty percent of liberals people say political violence is justified.
Nancy Mace: ABC bears the responsibility for what it chooses to broadcast into the homes of the American people. When will the promotion of violence end?
The First Lady doesn’t want to be part of every argument or the center of every conversation. She’s clearly upset—and justifiably so. Catherine Salgado at PJ Media: After vile “comedian” Jimmy Kimmel referred to First Lady Melania Trump as an “expectant widow” in a series of grossly inappropriate jokes before the Saturday assassination attempt on Trump administration officials, the first lady responded with dignity but without holding back on emphasizing just how dangerous the rhetoric is. Just days before Cole Allen opened fire at the April 25 White House correspondents’ dinner, the host of Jimmy Kimmel Live! chortled, “Our First Lady, Melania, is here. Look at Melania, so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.” That ugly display was part of Kimmel’s Thursday parody of the then-upcoming correspondents’ dinner. And the shooting highlighted vividly how irresponsible or downright bloodthirsty the media is for their constant pro-assassination rhetoric. No wonder the first lady wants ABC to take him off the air (PJ Media).
President Donald J. Trump Calls on Disney and ABC to Fire Jimmy Kimmel Following His Despicable Call to Violence. pic.twitter.com/W4oxxgBZxv
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) April 27, 2026
Melania’s post: Enough is enough. It is time for ABC to take a stand. How many times will ABC’s leadership enable Kimmel’s atrocious behavior at the expense of our community (Trump).
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The left has https://twitter.com/FLOTUS/status/2048769128513585618?s=20
ABC bears the responsibility for what it chooses to broadcast into the homes of the American people. When will the promotion of violence end?
First Lady Melani Trump’s respose:
Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country. His monologue about my family isn’t comedy- his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America.
People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate.
A coward, Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him.
Enough is enough. It is time for ABC to take a stand. How many times will ABC’s leadership enable Kimmel’s atrocious behavior at the expense of our community.
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Jimmy Kimmel repeats ‘hateful’ joke about ‘expectant widow’ Melania Trump in attempt to defend himself after WHCD shooting
By Caitlin McCormack
Published April 28, 2026
Updated April 28, 2026, 1:33 a.m. ET1.3K Comments
Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel dared to repeat the “hateful” ill-timed joke he made about first lady Melania Trump looking like an “expectant widow” in a bombed roast he delivered days before the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
Kimmel, who narrowly dodged outright cancellation for making similarly distasteful jokes about Charlie Kirk’s assassination in September, took to the air with a vengeance in his Monday night show.
“This was like déjà vu for me today,” he said on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
Kimmel explained that his mock roast featured in last Thursday’s show was intended to mirror those comedians usually impart at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, which was nixed for this year’s celebration.
Jimmy Kimmel on Melania & Donald Trump Demanding His Firing & The White House Correspondentsâ Dinner
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Jimmy Kimmel on Monday dared to repeat the “hateful” ill-timed joke he made about first lady Melania Trump on his show just two days before the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting.
Jimmy Kimmel Live, /YouTube
First lady Melania Trump and President Donald Trump react to reports of shots fired at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner at the Washington Hilton, Saturday, March 25, 2026, in Washington.
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First lady Melania Trump, mentalist Oz Pearlman, President Trump and CBS News’ Weijia Jiang react to gunfire erupting at the WHCD on April 25, 2026.
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One joke during his bit took aim at the first lady.“Our first lady, Melania, is here. Look at Melania, so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow,” Kimmel said.
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He repeated the tasteless joke verbatim in his Monday night monologue following a failed assassination attempt on President Trump’s life — and after Melania called him out for “hateful and violent rhetoric.”At the dinner Saturday, accused gunman Cole Allen stormed into the Washington Hilton with the alleged intent to kill as many members of the Trump administration as possible.
But Kimmel on Monday swore that his performance was “a pretend roast” far removed from the purported assassination attempt.
WASHINGTON, DC – APRIL 25: Melania Trump and U.S. President Donald Trump attend The White House Correspondents Dinner at Washington Hilton on April 25, 2026 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for OP)
Kimmel insisted the mock roast on his April 23 show was intended to mirror those comedians usually impart at the WHCD, a bit that as nixed at this year’s event.
“There was no big reaction to it until this morning, when I faced yet another Twitter vomit storm and calls to fire me from our first lady,” Kimmel said.
He insisted that the joke was “about [Melania’s] age difference and the look of joy we see on her face” whenever she and Trump are together.
In a social media statement Monday morning, Melania fumed that “Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country.”
“His monologue about my family isn’t comedy- his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America,” she wrote on X.
Trump also demanded that ABC, which airs Kimmel’s show, immediately can the comedian.
“Jimmy Kimmel should be immediately fired by Disney and ABC,” the president wrote in a post on Truth Social, echoing a call made by the first lady.
Still, Kimmel made a half-hearted attempt to empathize with Melania for what he called one of her many “stressful weekends” and relented that he may now be “pro-ballroom,” referring to Trump’s ambitious White House renovation, going forward.
The president’s and first lady’s damning criticism wasn’t the only fallout Kimmel caught.
One of his scheduled guests, mentalist Oz Pearlman, canceled his appearance on Monday’s show following the shooting and the Trumps’ outrage.
Cancelled……
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