{"id":2595937,"date":"2026-04-28T04:43:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T08:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jimmy-kimmel-addresses-melania-trumps-social-media-post-about-his-corrosive-comedy-skit\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T04:44:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T08:44:29","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-addresses-melania-trumps-social-media-post-about-his-corrosive-comedy-skit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jimmy-kimmel-addresses-melania-trumps-social-media-post-about-his-corrosive-comedy-skit\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel addresses Melania Trump&#8217;s social media post about his \u2018corrosive\u2019 comedy skit"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjimmy-kimmel-addresses-melania-trumps-social-media-post-about-his-corrosive-comedy-skit%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2595937&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel responded to a controversy sparked by a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald ...\">social media post<\/a> from First Lady Melania Trump criticizing him for a joke he made last week about her being a widow. Kimmel said he addressed the backlash in his opening monologue on \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d and described how the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner was canceled after a man with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/woman-arrested-at-lax-airport-for-allegedly-trafficking-weapons-for-iran\/\" title=\"Woman Arrested at LAX Airport for Allegedly Trafficking Weapons for Iran\">weapons broke<\/a> through security and was later charged.  <\/p>\n<p>He explained that his prior remarks were part of a light, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >fictional \u201croast\u201d bit connected<\/a> to his own mock version of the dinner, not an incitement to violence, and he argued that the uproar came only after his skit resurfaced with renewed attention.  <\/p>\n<p>Melania Trump accused Kimmel of spreading hate and urged ABC to fire him. Shortly afterward, President Donald Trump also called for Kimmel\u2019s termination, tying the issue to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/1-capitol-police-officer-dead-after-external-security-threat-at-u-s-capitol\/\" title=\"1 Capitol police officer dead after external ... threat at U.S. Capitol\">security incident<\/a> at the dinner. In his later comments, Kimmel said he agreed that hateful and violent rhetoric should be rejected, but suggested the first lady should start by urging dialogue with her husband to reduce the level of political rhetoric.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p>Late-night talk show host <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jimmy-kimmel\/\">Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> addressed the social media post by first lady <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/melania-trump\/\">Melania Trump<\/a>, criticizing him for a joke he made last week about her being a widow. The first lady posted the request on X on Monday morning, two days after Cole Allen broke through a security checkpoint at the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4543512\/terror-at-white-house-correspondents-dinner\/\">White House Correspondents\u2019 Association dinner<\/a> at the Washington Hilton on Saturday night. Allen has been <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4544489\/cole-allen-faces-charges-attempt-to-assassinate-trump\/\">charged with attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As his audience greeted him with chants of \u201cJimmy! Jimmy!\u201d Kimmel addressed the controversy in the opening monologue of \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d <\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/entertainment\/4545374\/mentalist-oz-pearlman-jimmy-kimmel-trump\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Mentalist Oz Pearlman to skip Kimmel appearance after Trump dinner shooting<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4545178\/security-concerns-dc-america-250-events\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Security concerns loom large in DC ahead of high-profile America 250 events<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4544645\/trump-seeks-jimmy-kimmel-firing-expectant-widow-comment-whcd\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Trump calls for Jimmy Kimmel\u2019s firing after \u2018expectant widow\u2019 comment about WHCD<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>\u201cYou know, sometimes you wake up in the morning, and the first lady puts out a statement demanding you be fired from your job,\u201d Kimmel asked. \u201cWe\u2019ve all been there, right?\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>\u201cWhat a day!\u201d he added. \u201cAs you know, they had to cancel the White House Correspondents\u2019 dinner in Washington on Saturday night, after a man, with multiple guns and knives, crashed the party and may have shot a Secret Service officer. Fortunately, the guy was wearing a bulletproof vest and is okay. They\u2019re not sure exactly what happened, but they got the guy, and he was charged today. No one was hurt, thank goodness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>    <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zust6eID9mk?si=rGIufK81Q8LxCEq7\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>    <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe White House Correspondents\u2019 dinner, if you don\u2019t know, it used to be an annual event, before Trump showed up, but every year, they\u2019d have a comedian roast the room, the president, the vice president, members of the press, everybody got roasted. I did it once, I hosted it, it was a lot of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut this year, they said \u2018no comedian, we\u2019re bringing in a mentalist instead,\u2019\u201d Kimmel said. \u201cSo, on Thursday, three days before the event, in order to keep that cherished tradition alive, I did my own version of the Correspondents\u2019 dinner on my show. I put on a tuxedo. We pretended we had an audience of luminaries. We used old footage of the Trumps, of Pete Hegseth, JD Vance, Kid Rock, Vanilla Ice, all the members of his Cabinet, and we made it seem like they were all together in the room.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAgain, this was Thursday, and there was no big reaction to it until this morning, when I greeted the day facing yet another Twitter vomit storm, and a call to fire me from our first lady, Melania Trump, saying I should be fired because of a joke I made, again, five nights ago,\u201d Kimmel said. \u201cIt was a pretend roast. I said, \u2018Our first lady, Melania, is here, look at her, so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow,\u2019 which obviously was a joke about their age difference, and the look of joy we see on her face every time they\u2019re together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd they know that. I\u2019ve been very vocal for many years speaking out against gun violence in particular.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first lady\u2019s post accused Kimmel of \u201cspreading hate\u201d and urged the television network ABC to stop \u201crunning cover to protect him\u201d and \u201ctake a stand.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople like Kimmel shouldn\u2019t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate,\u201d said the first lady in her post. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kimmel\u2019s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country.  His monologue about my family isn\u2019t comedy- his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America.  <\/p>\n<p>People like Kimmel shouldn\u2019t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 First Lady Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FLOTUS\/status\/2048769128513585618?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 27, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cEnough is enough,\u201d she concluded. \u201cIt is time for ABC to take a stand.\u00a0 How many times will ABC\u2019s leadership enable Kimmel\u2019s atrocious behavior at the expense of our community.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Shortly after the first lady\u2019s comments, President Trump made a post on his Truth Social account calling for Kimmel\u2019s firing at ABC, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/116477838570626860\">mentioning<\/a> that days after Kimmel\u2019s skit, \u201ca lunatic tried entering the ballroom of the White House Correspondents Dinner, loaded up with a shotgun, handgun, and many knives.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wow, Jimmy Kimmel, who is in no way funny as attested to by his terrible Television Ratings, made a statement on his Show that is really shocking. He showed a fake video of the First Lady, Melania, and our son, Barron, like they were actually sitting in his studio, listening to\u2026 <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JeN3VheeI5\">pic.twitter.com\/JeN3VheeI5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Commentary: Trump Truth Social Posts On X (@TrumpTruthOnX) <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TrumpTruthOnX\/status\/2048818987019223198?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 27, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\u201cHe was there for a very obvious and sinister reason,\u201d said the president. \u201cI appreciate that so many people are incensed by Kimmel\u2019s despicable call to violence, and normally would not be responsive to anything that he said but, this is something far beyond the pale. Jimmy Kimmel should be immediately fired by Disney and ABC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/crime\/4543606\/what-to-know-cole-thomas-allen-trump-shooting\/\">WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT COLE THOMAS ALLEN, THE TRUMP DINNER SHOOTING SUSPECT<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Later in the monologue, Kimmel said he understood the first lady had a stressful experience, but added that while he agreed \u201chateful and violent rhetoric should be rejected,\u201d the first lady should begin to help \u201cdial back\u201d the rhetoric by having a conversation with her husband, President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI understand that the first lady had a stressful experience over the weekend \u2014 and probably every weekend is pretty stressful in that house,\u201d Kimmel said. \u201cAnd 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 it back, would be to have a conversation with your husband about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Kimmel responded to Melania Trump\u2019s X post criticizing his \u201cwidow\u201d joke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2677,"featured_media":2595938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-collage-rv0yu43x5-1777364421186-e1777364470624.jpg?1777350094&amp;w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[43710,32423,5894,32364],"class_list":["post-2595937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-melania-trump","tag-politics","tag-social-media"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/image-collage-rv0yu43x5-1777364421186-e1777364470624.jpg?1777350094&amp;w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2595937"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2595941,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595937\/revisions\/2595941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2595938"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2595937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2595937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2595937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}