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Jimmy Kimmel Speaks Out After Melania Trump ‘Widow’ Joke Criticism

TIME·Chad de Guzman·about 1 month ago
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“You know how sometimes you wake up in the morning and the First Lady puts out a statement demanding you be fired from your job,” comedian Jimmy Kimmel said in the opening monologue of his late-night show Monday evening. “We’ve all been there, right?” Kimmel, in a skit that aired on April 23 that satirized the then-upcoming White House Correspondents’ Dinner, pretended to address Melania and joked that the First Lady had “a glow like an expectant widow.”  But after the actual dinner on April 25 was disrupted by a shooting , suspected to be the third assassination attempt on the President, Melania claimed on social media that Kimmel’s “hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country” and that “his monologue about my family isn’t comedy.” The President also chimed in, referencing Kimmel’s “expectant widow” joke and claiming that it was “far beyond the pale.” Kimmel defended himself on Monday night’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!…

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