{"id":3304,"date":"2026-08-24T21:15:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T21:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/?p=3304"},"modified":"2026-08-24T21:15:45","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T21:15:45","slug":"glow-like-an-expectant-widow-kimmels-joke-on-melania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/?p=3304","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Glow like an expectant widow&#8217;: Kimmel&#8217;s joke on Melania &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A joke made by late-night host Jimmy Kimmel about First Lady Melania Trump has sparked a heated political and media controversy after a shooting disrupted the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner days later.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fWsFqYppxEA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\nThe remark was originally presented as part of his usual political satire and came <strong>two days before<\/strong> the actual dinner.<\/p>\n<p>During a comedy segment aired on April 23, Kimmel was pretending to host the upcoming correspondents\u2019 dinner when he addressed Melania and joked about her appearance, saying she had \u201ca glow like an expectant widow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The controversy intensified after a gunman attempted to enter the Washington Hilton during the April 25 dinner, forcing President Donald Trump, Melania and other attendees to be rushed away from the event. Following the incident, the old clip resurfaced online, with critics arguing that Kimmel\u2019s earlier joke had taken on a much darker meaning.<\/p>\n<p>Melania Trump strongly condemned the comedian\u2019s remarks and called on ABC to take action against him. She described Kimmel\u2019s rhetoric as hateful and divisive, arguing that his comments about her family went beyond ordinary comedy. President Trump also criticized Kimmel and called on ABC and Disney to fire him.<\/p>\n<p>Kimmel, however, rejected the suggestion that his joke was connected to the later shooting or intended to encourage violence. During his response on <em>Jimmy Kimmel Live!<\/em>, he explained that the joke was about the age difference between Donald and Melania Trump and insisted that it was simply a light roast rather than a threat or \u201ccall to assassination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The timing of the controversy has become a central part of the debate. Kimmel made the joke <strong>before<\/strong> the shooting occurred, but the incident caused the clip to be viewed in a very different context afterward. The dispute has since become another flashpoint in the long-running conflict between Trump and Kimmel, with ABC and Disney facing pressure over whether the comedian should remain on the air.<\/p>\n<p>The episode has left audiences divided: some believe Kimmel crossed a serious line with the joke, while others argue that the remark is being interpreted differently because of an unrelated event that happened afterward. At the center of the controversy is a simple question\u2014<strong>was it an offensive joke that went too far, or is it being judged unfairly because of what happened days later?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A joke made by late-night host Jimmy Kimmel about First Lady Melania Trump has sparked a heated political and media controversy after a shooting disrupted the White&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2265,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mdrssa_facebook_image":"","_mdrssa_unique_id":"","_mdrssa_normalized_url":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3305,"href":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3304\/revisions\/3305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lateststories.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}