{"id":2596085,"date":"2026-04-28T11:19:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T15:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jimmy-kimmel-incapable-of-apologizing-joe-concha\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T11:20:56","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T15:20:56","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-incapable-of-apologizing-joe-concha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jimmy-kimmel-incapable-of-apologizing-joe-concha\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel &#8216;incapable&#8217; of apologizing: Joe Concha"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/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-incapable-of-apologizing-joe-concha%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=2596085&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>Joe Concha of *Washington Examiner* says Jimmy Kimmel is \u201cincapable\u201d of apologizing after Kimmel faced backlash for a joke at the white House correspondents\u2019 Association dinner that Concha interpreted as wishing President Donald Trump would be assassinated. Concha argues that Kimmel later \u201cdouble-downed\u201d by explaining the remarks as a light \u201croast\u201d about the frist couple\u2019s age difference, rather than an assassination call. He also compares Kimmel to progressive streamer Hasan Piker and criticizes ABC for promoting what he views as activist-style commentary instead of journalism, while discussing a nearby assassination attempt involving a charged suspect running toward the ballroom.  <\/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><em>Washington Examiner<\/em> columnist <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/author\/joe-concha\/\">Joe Concha<\/a> said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-jimmy-kimmel-says-wallstreetbets-might-be-russian-disruptors\/\" title=\"WATCH: ... Says WallStreetBets Might Be \u2018Russian Disruptors\u2019\">late-night host<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jimmy-kimmel\/\">Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> is \u201cincapable\u201d of apologizing, after Kimmel made a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-looks-to-reassure-latino-voters-as-harris-uses-star-power-to-make-her-case-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"... looks to reassure Latino voters as Harris uses star power to make her case - Washington Examiner\">controversial joke calling<\/a> first lady <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/melania-trump\/\">Melania Trump<\/a> an \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4544303\/melania-slams-coward-jimmy-kimmel-whcd-parody-skit-first-family\/\">expectant widow<\/a>\u201d ahead of the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association dinner, where there was an assassination attempt on President <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\">Donald Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>After Kimmel\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4545411\/jimmy-kimmel-addresses-melania-trump-social-media-post\/\">first show back<\/a> Monday night since Trump called for his firing, Concha said the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >late-night host \u201cdouble-downed<\/a>.\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\/4545661\/southwest-airlines-independence-one-plane-america-250\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Southwest Airlines launches \u2018Independence One\u2019 plane for America 250 celebrations<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4545411\/jimmy-kimmel-addresses-melania-trump-social-media-post\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Jimmy Kimmel addresses Melania Trump\u2019s social media post about his \u2018corrosive\u2019 comedy skit<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\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<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>\u201cHe is incapable of apologizing for his open wish that Donald Trump be assassinated,\u201d Concha said Tuesday on <em>Fox &#038; Friends First<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<div style=\"width: 100%; max-width: 640px; max-height: 360px; min-width: 320px; min-height: 180px; overflow: hidden;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; width: 100%; padding-top: 56.25%;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/share.grabien.com\/share?id=3499644&#038;userid=11311&#038;usertype=user&#038;loginid=9421&#038;playercolor=%23000000&#038;playersize=auto&#038;code=1b1d4aa90364efd7c18ca147d9cae2e3\" style=\"position: absolute; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px;\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>At the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/White-House-Correspondents-Association\/\">White House Correspondents\u2019 Association<\/a> dinner on Saturday, officials said a gunman ran through a security checkpoint toward the ballroom where Trump and other attendees gathered for the annual event. Cole Allen was <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4544489\/cole-allen-faces-charges-attempt-to-assassinate-trump\/\">charged on Monday<\/a> with attempting to assassinate the president.<\/p>\n<p>Kimmel said the joke was not a call for assassination, but a \u201croast\u201d about the age difference between the first couple.<\/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,\u201d Kimmel said. \u201cIt was not by any stretch of the definition a call to assassination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Concha said Kimmel\u2019s comments about the first family show the late-night host wants the president to be assassinated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat else could any reasonable, sane, or sober person possibly conclude except that being a call for Trump, who works as hard as anybody on the planet, appears to be in excellent health, to be suddenly dead,\u201d Concha said. <\/p>\n<p>Concha said Kimmel shares similarities with progressive streamer <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hasan-piker\/\">Hasan Piker<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cJimmy Kimmel is not a comedian, he\u2019s Hasan Piker with an ABC logo,\u201d Concha said. \u201cAnd ABC, which might as well be called MSABC at this point, just gave this man a contract extension because that is what management wants this network to be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe tip of the sphere in the radical Trump resistance,\u201d he added of ABC. \u201cCongrats guys, you just earned that distinction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/4545411\/jimmy-kimmel-addresses-melania-trump-social-media-post\/\"><strong>JIMMY KIMMEL ADDRESSES MELANIA TRUMP\u2019S SOCIAL MEDIA POST ABOUT HIS \u2018CORROSIVE\u2019 COMEDY SKIT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Concha said ABC went from being the \u201chome\u201d of great journalists to having Kimmel be the \u201cface\u201d of the network.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe guy who cried on the air the night after Trump won back the White House,\u201d Concha said. \u201cThis is not a comedian. This is a radical activist, and the fact that he openly wished for the president to be dead and tried to explain it away as, \u2018oh, you know it\u2019s about the age difference.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCome on. Give me a break. What a joke,\u201d he continued. \u201cExcept this guy rarely tells jokes on his show at this point. It\u2019s all about taking down Trump one way or another.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concha says Kimmel is \u201cincapable\u201d of apologizing after his \u201cexpectant widow\u201d joke<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3984,"featured_media":2596086,"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\/AP26005128586216.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[43710,52093,33295,33930],"class_list":["post-2596085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-joe-concha","tag-media-criticism","tag-political-satire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/AP26005128586216.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596085","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\/3984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2596085"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2596089,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2596085\/revisions\/2596089"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2596086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2596085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2596085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2596085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}