Jimmy Kimmel Defends His “Expectant Widow” Joke After President And First Lady Ask ABC To Fire Him
Amy & T.J.
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🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Late night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel maintained he was making an “age gap” joke about Melania Trump looking like an “expectant widow.” Kimmel’s joke was days before a third attempt was made on President Trump’s life at the WHCD and while some have said it was distasteful, others maintain it was dangerous, even suggesting it could encourage violence against the President. ABC has remained silent around the controversy.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.2 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:07.1 | It is Tuesday, April 28th, and Jimmy Kimmel still has a job. |
| 0:11.3 | And he's still cracking jokes at the expense of the president and first lady after they both called for him to be fired yesterday. |
| 0:21.2 | With that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. |
| 0:23.9 | Ropes thought this might have been on the table for ABC to have to say something or do something. |
| 0:29.2 | They said nothing. |
| 0:30.3 | They did nothing, and the show went on. |
| 0:32.2 | Yeah, I mean, I actually am surprised, and Jimmy Kimmel has definitely gone on to defend himself quite vehemently |
| 0:41.0 | for the joke stands by his joke and yeah crickets from a bc crickets from disney |
| 0:49.1 | unexpected and i think i guess we were saying yesterday either they had to do something |
| 0:53.9 | fairly dramatic as in firing him or they would do nothing at all expected. And I think, I guess we were saying yesterday, either they had to do something fairly |
| 0:54.3 | dramatic, as in firing him, or they would do nothing at all, or, and by that, support him. |
| 1:01.3 | Yeah, and they supported him with their silence, which they just let him go on and speak for |
| 1:06.7 | himself. So this all got started. It really, look, we're used to the president saying every week or so |
| 1:11.7 | that he wants some late night hosts fired. He goes off on television personalities all the time. |
| 1:16.9 | So if the headline was the president calls for Jimmy Kimmel to be fired, we probably would not |
| 1:22.9 | have done an episode about it yesterday. But Robs, it did take it to another level when the first lady |
| 1:26.7 | spoke up. Yes, the first lady doesn't use her voice very often, so when she does, we listen, and she did not mince |
| 1:33.9 | words about how she felt about Jimmy Kimmel's joke that he told on Thursday evening before the |
| 1:40.5 | White House Correspondence Dinner on Saturday night. Now, of course, we all know what |
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