{"id":593145,"date":"2026-04-29T12:33:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T12:33:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=593145"},"modified":"2026-04-29T12:33:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T12:33:51","slug":"kimmel-cant-stop-obsessing-about-trump-wait-a-minute-did-he-just-make-a-joke-about-his-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=593145","title":{"rendered":"Kimmel can\u2019t stop obsessing about Trump: \u2018Wait a minute \u2013 did he just make a joke about his death?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel seems miffed that he can\u2019t make jokes about President Donald Trump\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump welcomed King Charles III and his wife Queen Camilla to the White House. During his remarks, he noted the long relationship between his mother and father, and joked that his marriage to First Lady Melania Trump would not last that long.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy wonderful mother, Mary MacLeod. She came to America at 19 and met my incredible father. We loved him so much. We all loved him. We loved her. We loved him, Fred. And they were married for 63 years,\u201d the president said. \u201cAnd excuse me, if you don\u2019t mind, that\u2019s a record we won\u2019t be able to match, darling, I\u2019m sorry. Just not gonna work out that way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump and Melania have been married for 21 years.<\/p>\n

Kimmel played this clip, feigning shock that the president is allowed to comment on his own mortality.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWait a minute \u2013 did he just make a joke about his death?\u201d he asked. \u201cMy God. He should be fired for that. Only 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

This comes after Melania Trump condemned<\/a> a comment Kimmel made about her having \u201cthe glow of an expectant widow\u201d on Thursday, two days before the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner shooting. While the joke itself doesn\u2019t necessarily call for violence, it\u2019s no secret that a great many people on the left want the president dead (as evidenced by the number of failed assassination attempts) and have called for violence to be inflicted upon him. This type of rhetoric, despite the left\u2019s denials and deflections, is almost certainly not helping to cool the national temperature.<\/p>\n

\u201cKimmel\u2019s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country,\u201d the first lady wrote on X. \u201cHis monologue about my family isn\u2019t comedy- his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America.\u201d<\/p>\n

The comedian didn\u2019t apologize, and instead offered excuses about how the joke was based on their age difference and totally not anything else.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis was Thursday,\u201d he explained about the ill-timed comment, \u201cand there was no big reaction to it until this morning, when I greeted the day facing yet another Twitter vomit storm. I said, our first lady, Melania, is here. Look at her. So beautiful. This is from the glow. Like an expectant widow, which obviously was a joke about their age difference and the look of joy we see on her face every time they were together.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was a very light roast joke about the fact that he\u2019s almost 80, and she\u2019s younger than I am. It was not, by any stretch of the definition, a call to assassination \u2014 and they know that. I\u2019ve been very vocal for many years, speaking out against gun violence in particular, but I understand that the first lady had a stressful experience over the weekend, and probably every weekend is pretty stressful in that house.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI agree that hateful and violent rhetoric is something we should reject. I do it, and I think a great place to start to dial that back would be to have a conversation with your husband about it,\u201d he continued. \u201cDonald Trump is allowed to say whatever he wants to say, as are you, as am I, as are all of us. Because under the First Amendment, we have as Americans a right to free speech.\u201d<\/p>\n

He did apologize for the night being \u201ctraumatic and scary,\u201d though, which is more than many people might expect.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut with that said, I am sorry that you and the president and everyone in that room on Saturday went through that. I really am. Just because no one got killed, that doesn\u2019t mean it wasn\u2019t traumatic and scary. We should come together and be the best.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel seems miffed that he can\u2019t make jokes about President Donald Trump\u2019s death. On Tuesday, President Donald Trump welcomed King Charles III and his wife Queen Camilla to the White House. During his remarks, he noted the long relationship between his mother and father, and joked that his marriage to First Lady… Continue reading Kimmel can\u2019t stop obsessing about Trump: \u2018Wait a minute \u2013 did he just make a joke about his death?\u2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":593146,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-593145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=593145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593145\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/593146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=593145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=593145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=593145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}