Jimmy Kimmel repeats hateful joke about Melania…
Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel dared to repeat the “hateful” ill-timed joke he made about first woman Melania Trump trying like an “expectant widow” in a bombed roast he delivered days before the taking pictures at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
Kimmel, who narrowly dodged outright cancellation for making equally distasteful jokes about Charlie Kirk’s assassination in September, took to the air with a vengeance in his Monday evening show.
“This was like déjà vu for me today,” he said on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
Kimmel explained that his mock roast featured in last Thursday’s show was meant to mirror those comedians often impart at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, which was nixed for this yr’s celebration.
Jimmy Kimmel on Monday dared to repeat the “hateful” ill-timed joke he made about first woman Melania Trump on his show just two days before the White House Correspondents’ Dinner taking pictures. Jimmy Kimmel Live, /YouTube
First woman Melania Trump, mentalist Oz Pearlman, President Trump and CBS News’ Weijia Jiang react to gunfire erupting at the WHCD on April 25, 2026. Pool
One joke during his bit took intention at the first woman.
“Our first lady, Melania, is here. Look at Melania, so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow,” Kimmel said.
He repeated the tasteless joke verbatim in his Monday evening monologue following a failed assassination attempt on President Trump’s life — and after Melania called him out for “hateful and violent rhetoric.”
At the dinner Saturday, accused gunman Cole Allen stormed into the Washington Hilton with the alleged intent to kill as many members of the Trump administration as potential.
But Kimmel on Monday swore that his efficiency was “a pretend roast” far eliminated from the purported assassination attempt.
The Trumps at the annual event before crazed accused gunman Cole Allen stormed the Washington Hilton on April 25. 2026. Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for OP
Kimmel insisted the mock roast on his April 23 show was meant to mirror those comedians often impart at the WHCD, a bit that as nixed at this yr’s event.
“There was no big reaction to it until this morning, when I faced yet another Twitter vomit storm and calls to fire me from our first lady,” Kimmel said.
He insisted that the joke was “about [Melania’s] age difference and the look of joy we see on her face” whenever she and Trump are together.
In a social media assertion Monday morning, Melania fumed that “Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country.”
“His monologue about my family isn’t comedy- his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America,” she wrote on X.
Cole Allen after he was detained for allegedly opening fire at the gala, where 2,500 Trump administration officers and journalists have been in attendance.
Trump also demanded that ABC, which airs Kimmel’s show, immediately can the comic.
“Jimmy Kimmel should be immediately fired by Disney and ABC,” the president wrote in a post on Truth Social, echoing a call made by the first woman.
Still, Kimmel made a half-hearted attempt to empathize with Melania for what he called one of her many “stressful weekends” and relented that he could now be “pro-ballroom,” referring to Trump’s formidable White House renovation, going ahead.
The president’s and first woman’s damning criticism wasn’t the only fallout Kimmel caught.
One of his scheduled company, mentalist Oz Pearlman, canceled his look on Monday’s show following the taking pictures and the Trumps’ outrage.
Pearlman, who was set to carry out magic tips at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, had been standing between Trump and Melania at the event when gunfire erupted in the hallway.
Podcaster Jon Lovett took Pearlman’s slot on “Kimmel” and made repeated jabs at the absent mentalist.
“I’m sending a message to the mentalist right now … you cancelled you —” Lovett said. The last two phrases of his sentence have been bleeped totally.
Lovett, who hosts the lefty podcast “Pod Save America,” acknowledged the distinctive timing of his shock look and had a pointed message for Trump.
“We already went through another episode of Donald Trump trying to cancel Jimmy Kimmel. Gas is up to $6 a gallon. Open the f–king Strait of Hormuz,” he said.
He also teasingly praised Kimmel for discovering a means to help the Trumps “reconnect” during “a divided time.”
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