{"id":72738,"date":"2026-04-28T01:57:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T06:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/jimmy-kimmel-defends-melania-widow-joke-after-the-trumps-call-for-him-to-be-fired\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T01:57:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T06:57:47","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-defends-melania-widow-joke-after-the-trumps-call-for-him-to-be-fired","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/jimmy-kimmel-defends-melania-widow-joke-after-the-trumps-call-for-him-to-be-fired\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel defends Melania \u2018widow\u2019 joke after the Trumps call for him to be fired"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First lady accuses the comedian of \u2018hateful and violent rhetoric\u2019 over joke made days before the White House press dinner shooting<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/tv-and-radio\/jimmy-kimmel\">Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> has refused to apologise for a joke made days before the White House correspondents\u2019 dinner shooting in which he described Melania Trump as glowing \u201clike an expectant widow\u201d, after both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> and the first lady accused him of inciting violence.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday Melania Trump accused Kimmel of \u201chateful and violent rhetoric\u201d and \u201catrocious behavior\u201d, and said it was \u201ctime for ABC to take a stand\u201d against the comedian, who has long been critical of Trump and his policies.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/27\/melania-trump-jimmy-kimmel-abc-spat\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First lady accuses the comedian of \u2018hateful and violent rhetoric\u2019 over joke made days before the White House press dinner shooting Jimmy Kimmel has refused to apologise for a joke made days before the White House correspondents\u2019 dinner shooting in which he described Melania Trump as glowing \u201clike an expectant widow\u201d, after both Donald Trump &#8230; <a title=\"Jimmy Kimmel defends Melania \u2018widow\u2019 joke after the Trumps call for him to be fired\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/28\/jimmy-kimmel-defends-melania-widow-joke-after-the-trumps-call-for-him-to-be-fired\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Jimmy Kimmel defends Melania \u2018widow\u2019 joke after the Trumps call for him to be fired\">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-72738","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\/72738","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=72738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72738\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}