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Back<\/span><\/p>\n transcript<\/p>\n \u201cTrump, stay down.\u201d \u201cStay down.\u201d \u201cThis kind of rhetoric about the president, the first lady and his supporters is completely deranged. And it\u2019s unbelievable that the American people are consuming it night after night after night. When you have people in positions of power that are saying things like this every single day for years, you are inspiring violence by people who are already mentally ill. And that\u2019s what we\u2019ve seen against this president for far too long.\u201d \u201cIt was a very light roast joke about the fact that he\u2019s almost 80 and she\u2019s younger than I am. It was not, by any stretch of the definition, a call to assassination, and they know that. And also, I agree that hateful and violent rhetoric is something we should reject. I do, and I think a great place to start to dial that back would be to have a conversation with your husband about it.\u201d \u201cI think Disney and ABC are extremely lucky that Donald Trump wasn\u2019t assassinated on Saturday. They would be very smart to get this guy off the air, especially when there\u2019s so many non-political comedians that are good that could replace his show.\u201d I\u2019m just sick of the silliness coming out of the White House. I just wish that there were proper adults running the country at the moment who could stop with all these stupid distractions and this silly nonsense and just get back to governing the country.\u201d<\/p>\n The comedian Jimmy Kimmel defended a joke he made two days before the White House correspondents\u2019 dinner where he said that Melania Trump had \u201ca glow like an expectant widow.\u201d The first lady and President Trump both called on ABC to fire Kimmel over the joke.<\/span><\/p>\n By Axel Boada<\/p>\n April 28, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" new video loaded: Jimmy Kimmel Defends \u2018Widow\u2019 Joke After Calls for His Dismissal transcript Back transcript Jimmy Kimmel Defends \u2018Widow\u2019 Joke After Calls for His Dismissal The comedian Jimmy Kimmel defended a joke he made two days before the White House correspondents\u2019 dinner where he said that Melania Trump had \u201ca glow like an expectant<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48842,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[680,2086,15074,235,16791,441,13399],"class_list":{"0":"post-48841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime-justice","8":"tag-calls","9":"tag-defends","10":"tag-dismissal","11":"tag-jimmy","12":"tag-joke","13":"tag-kimmel","14":"tag-widow"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Jimmy Kimmel Defends \u2018Widow\u2019 Joke After Calls for His Dismissal<\/h2>\n
The comedian Jimmy Kimmel defended a joke he made two days before the White House correspondents\u2019 dinner where he said that Melania Trump had \u201ca glow like an expectant widow.\u201d The first lady and President Trump both called on ABC to fire Kimmel over the joke.<\/h4>\n