{"id":6572,"date":"2026-04-28T03:05:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T21:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=6572"},"modified":"2026-04-28T03:05:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T21:20:14","slug":"trump-demands-jimmy-kimmel-be-fired-over-expectant-widow-remark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/?p=6572","title":{"rendered":"Trump demands Jimmy Kimmel be fired over \u201cexpectant widow\u201d remark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Washington, D.C. \u2014 U.S. President Donald Trump has called for late-night host Jimmy Kimmel to be \u201cimmediately fired\u201d after controversial comments about First Lady Melania Trump.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Kimmel made a joke during a monologue referring to Melania Trump as an \u201cexpectant widow.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">The remark came shortly before a security incident at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Donald Trump called the comments \u201cdespicable\u201d and urged ABC and its parent company Disney to fire Kimmel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Melania Trump condemned the joke as \u201chateful\u201d and \u201ccorrosive,\u201d saying it contributes to division. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">She also urged the network to \u201ctake a stand\u201d against such rhetoric.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">The controversy adds to ongoing tensions between Trump and Kimmel. It has reignited debate over free speech, political humor, and media responsibility. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">ABC and Disney have not issued an official response so far.\u00a0<\/span><!--\/data\/user\/0\/com.samsung.android.app.notes\/files\/clipdata\/clipdata_bodytext_260427_171839_094.sdocx--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C. \u2014 U.S. President Donald Trump has called for late-night host Jimmy Kimmel to be \u201cimmediately fired\u201d after controversial comments about First Lady Melania Trump. Kimmel made a joke during a monologue referring to Melania Trump as an \u201cexpectant widow.\u201d The remark came shortly before a security incident at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-highlights"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/melania-kimmel.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6574,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6572\/revisions\/6574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timesasian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}