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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(136,991 posts)
Fri May 1, 2026, 08:33 PM Friday

Jimmy Kimmel defends his Melania Trump 'expectant widow' joke after first lady and president call for his firing.

Jimmy Kimmel responded to calls this week from President Trump and first lady Melania Trump for the ABC late-night host to be fired over a joke he made last week about them attending the White House Correspondents' Dinner.

“You know how sometimes you wake up in the morning and the first lady puts out a statement demanding you be fired from your job — we’ve all been there, right?” Kimmel said at the start of his Jimmy Kimmel Live! monologue on Monday. “What a day.”

Earlier in the day, Melania Trump posted a statement to X calling for ABC to fire Kimmel for the joke he made ahead of Saturday’s event, which was disrupted by a gunman who ran through a security checkpoint and allegedly opened fire.

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On his show on April 23, Kimmel parodied Saturday’s dinner in advance, delivering a mock roast. In it, he joked that Melania Trump had a “glow like an expectant widow."

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/tv/article/jimmy-kimmel-defends-his-melania-trump-expectant-widow-joke-after-first-lady-and-president-call-for-his-firing-what-did-he-say-150934287.html

Deport her ass back to Slovenia.

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Jimmy Kimmel defends his Melania Trump 'expectant widow' joke after first lady and president call for his firing. (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Friday OP
I think she is jealous of Erika Kirk JI7 Friday #1
You little people are not allowed to make fun of us Gods... wcmagumba Friday #2
Gold digging "escort" and Russian agent thinks TV comedians are criminals. Irish_Dem Friday #3
The Slovenian sex worker and visa fraudster shouldn't act like an expectant widow in public if she RockRaven Friday #4
Cope Harder, Epstein Adjacent, malaria. Cha Friday #5

RockRaven

(19,694 posts)
4. The Slovenian sex worker and visa fraudster shouldn't act like an expectant widow in public if she
Fri May 1, 2026, 08:54 PM
Friday

doesn't want to be called an expectant widow in public.

Where truth is be inconvenient to have been spoken aloud, don't put on demonstrations of the truth and then expect people to be silent.

Cha

(320,319 posts)
5. Cope Harder, Epstein Adjacent, malaria.
Fri May 1, 2026, 09:06 PM
Friday

I saw that vid of Jimmy Kimmel talking about waking up to That.

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