Jimmy Kimmel says ‘expectant widow’ jab against Trumps was about age difference
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ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel remained defiant Monday night, insisting that his now-viral “widow-in-waiting” joke about President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump was simply about their ages.
“Today was Thursday, and there wasn’t a huge response to it until this morning, when I welcomed the day of being faced with yet another Twitter vomit storm,” Kimmel said during his monologue. “I said, ‘Our First Lady, Melania, is here. Look at her. She’s so beautiful. That glow. Like an expected widow, which was obviously a joke about the age difference between them and the look of joy we see on her face every time they’re together.”
“This was a very light joke about the fact that he was almost 80 and she was younger than me. This was not a call for assassination by any scope of the definition – and they know it,” he continued. “I’ve been speaking out against gun violence, especially, for years, but I understand that the First Lady had a stressful experience over the weekend and that every weekend in that house was probably pretty stressful.”
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Liberal comedian Jimmy Kimmel addressed the backlash he received for his “widow” joke two days before the third assassination attempt on President Donald Trump. (Randy Holmes/ABC via Getty Images)
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