{"id":72733,"date":"2026-04-27T22:55:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T03:55:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/trump-and-white-house-fire-back-at-kimmel-over-melania-expectant-widow-joke-video\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T22:55:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T03:55:05","slug":"trump-and-white-house-fire-back-at-kimmel-over-melania-expectant-widow-joke-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/trump-and-white-house-fire-back-at-kimmel-over-melania-expectant-widow-joke-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump and White House fire back at Kimmel over Melania &#8216;expectant widow\u2019 joke \u2013 video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of late-night television host Jimmy Kimmel and Hollywood residents pushed back against Melania Trump&#8217;s demand that the American Broadcasting Company and parent company Walt Disney Co fire the comedian over a monologue he delivered in a parody segment days before the shooting at the White House correspondents\u2019 dinner over the weekend. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt denounced Kimmel, saying he &#8216;disgustingly called first lady Melania Trump &#8220;an expectant widow&#8221;&#8216;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/27\/melania-trump-jimmy-kimmel-abc-spat\">Melania and Donald Trump call for Jimmy Kimmel to be fired in latest attack on ABC host<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/video\/2026\/apr\/28\/trump-white-house-jimmy-kimmel-melania-response\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of late-night television host Jimmy Kimmel and Hollywood residents pushed back against Melania Trump&#8217;s demand that the American Broadcasting Company and parent company Walt Disney Co fire the comedian over a monologue he delivered in a parody segment days before the shooting at the White House correspondents\u2019 dinner over the weekend. White House press &#8230; <a title=\"Trump and White House fire back at Kimmel over Melania &#8216;expectant widow\u2019 joke \u2013 video\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/trump-and-white-house-fire-back-at-kimmel-over-melania-expectant-widow-joke-video\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump and White House fire back at Kimmel over Melania &#8216;expectant widow\u2019 joke \u2013 video\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}