{"id":22127,"date":"2026-04-29T13:59:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/22127\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T13:59:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T13:59:34","slug":"kimmel-calls-out-trumps-joke-about-his-own-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/22127\/","title":{"rendered":"Kimmel Calls Out Trump&#8217;s Joke About His Own Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tOne day after Donald <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/trump\/\" id=\"auto-tag_trump\" data-tag=\"trump\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trump<\/a> said <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/jimmy-kimmel\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jimmy-kimmel\" data-tag=\"jimmy-kimmel\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/04\/trump-jimmy-kimmel-abc-expectant-widow-joke-1236873637\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">should be fired<\/a> for making a joke about the president\u2019s marriage, Kimmel called out similar remarks from Trump himself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tFor those unaware of the backstory, Kimmel\u2019s skit last Thursday had him giving\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/04\/jimmy-kimmel-trump-white-house-correspondents-dinner-1236870637\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">his own \u201calternative\u201d monologue<\/a>\u00a0to the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner, with archival clips of reaction shots from the first lady, Trump and others.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tKimmel said, \u201cOur First Lady, Melania, is here. Look at Melania, so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tAfter the <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/04\/trump-speaks-shooting-whcd-1236872381\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">apparent assassination attempt <\/a>aimed at Trump on Saturday night, however, the president, the First Lady and the White House Press secretary all took retroactive umbrage. Trump termed the joke a \u201ccall to violence,\u201d and said it was \u201cfar beyond the pale.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tDuring his monologue tonight, Kimmel played a bit of Trump\u2019s speech welcoming King Charles to the U.S. In it, the president waxed nostalgic about his own mother, who was a fan of the king, and her 63-year marriage to his father.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tTrump, 79, then turned to wife Melania, 56, on the podium and quipped, \u201cAnd uh excuse me if you don\u2019t mind. That\u2019s a record we won\u2019t be able to match, darling. I\u2019m sorry. Just not going to work out that way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\tBack in the studio, Kimmel looked dumbfounded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cWait a minute. Did he just make a joke about his death? My god. You should be fired for that,\u201d he joked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto     \">\n\t\u201cOnly Donald Trump would demand I be fired for making a joke about his old age and then a day later go out and make a joke about his own old age.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One day after Donald Trump said Jimmy Kimmel should be fired for making a joke about the president\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[707,8,13133,1530,9,7,1071],"class_list":["post-22127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-abc","tag-headlines","tag-jimmy-kimmel-live","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-news","tag-top-stories","tag-trump"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/116488356640110180","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}