{"id":237012,"date":"2026-04-27T15:20:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/melania-trump-calls-for-jimmy-kimmel-to-be-fired-after-calling-her-an-expectant-widow\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T15:20:01","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T15:20:01","slug":"melania-trump-calls-for-jimmy-kimmel-to-be-fired-after-calling-her-an-expectant-widow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/27\/melania-trump-calls-for-jimmy-kimmel-to-be-fired-after-calling-her-an-expectant-widow\/","title":{"rendered":"Melania Trump Calls for Jimmy Kimmel to Be Fired After Calling Her an \u2018Expectant Widow\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\t\t<span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Melania Trump<\/strong> is calling for <strong>Jimmy Kimmel<\/strong> to be fired by ABC.<\/p>\n<p>The First Lady posted a statement on Monday (April 27), days after the <em>Jimmy Kimmel Live! <\/em>host called her \u201can expectant widow\u201d in a parody of a White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner roast.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"hidearticle\"><em>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><span id=\"more-2199344\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>She posted on her official <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/FLOTUS\/status\/2048769128513585618\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/x.com\/FLOTUS\/status\/2048769128513585618&#039;); return false;\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a> account, \u201c<strong>Kimmel<\/strong>\u2019s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country.  His monologue about my family isn\u2019t comedy- his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p>She continued, \u201cPeople like <strong>Kimmel <\/strong>shouldn\u2019t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate. A coward, <strong>Kimmel <\/strong>hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him. Enough is enough.  It is time for ABC to take a stand.  How many times will ABC\u2019s leadership enable <strong>Kimmel<\/strong>\u2019s atrocious behavior at the expense of our community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time <strong>Jimmy <\/strong>has been a target of the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Back in September, <strong>Trump<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/09\/17\/donald-trump-reacts-to-abc-pulling-jimmy-kimmel-live-indefinitely\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">praised <em>Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/em> being suspended<\/a> in the post-<strong>Charlie Kirk<\/strong> killing aftermath, and later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/09\/23\/donald-trump-threatens-to-sue-abc-over-bringing-jimmy-kimmel-live-back-to-air\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">threatened to sue ABC <\/a>when they returned the show to air. <\/p>\n<p>He then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/11\/20\/donald-trump-calls-for-jimmy-kimmel-to-be-fired-again-after-epstein-jokes-on-jimmy-kimmel-live\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">called for <strong>Jimmy <\/strong>to be fired<\/a> a few weeks later.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.2&appId=145071315902360\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/04\/27\/melania-trump-calls-for-jimmy-kimmel-to-be-fired-after-calling-her-an-expectant-widow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Melania Trump is calling for Jimmy Kimmel to be fired by ABC. The First Lady posted a statement on Monday (April 27), days after the Jimmy Kimmel Live! host called her \u201can expectant widow\u201d in a parody of a White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner roast. Keep reading to find out more\u2026 She posted on her official [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":237013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-237012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}