"Making Kimmel A Martyr" - FCC TARGETS Disney Over 'Glowing Widow' Joke
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🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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After Jimmy Kimmel jokes that Melania Trump has “a glow like an expectant widow,” the backlash sparks a fight over free speech, with Melania demanding ABC act, the FCC eyeing Disney licenses, and critics warning Trump is making Kimmel a martyr and escalating political lawfare.
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| 0:00.0 | So Jimmy Kimmel, a few days ago, makes a comment about President Trump's wife and says, |
| 0:07.0 | you look like, just go to my Twitter account if you don't have it. |
| 0:09.1 | You look like an expected widow, right? |
| 0:13.3 | And that goes viral. |
| 0:15.4 | Everybody starts talking about it. |
| 0:17.1 | Wait a minute. |
| 0:17.7 | Why would he say such a thing, right? |
| 0:19.6 | That's the clip right there at seven seconds. |
| 0:21.6 | So he makes this comment. |
| 0:23.6 | We need audio guys in the back. |
| 0:27.6 | Our first lady Melania is here. Look at it. So beautiful. |
| 0:31.6 | Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow. |
| 0:34.6 | Okay. So he makes this comment. Then the first lady, Melania Trump, responds in a tweet. And she comes out and she says, Kimmel's hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country. His monologue about family is in comedy. His words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America. People like Kimmel shouldn't have the opportunity |
| 0:54.9 | to enter our homes each evening to spread hate. |
| 0:57.2 | A coward Kimmel hides behind ABC |
| 0:58.8 | because he knows the network will keep running cover |
| 1:01.3 | to protect him. |
| 1:01.9 | Enough is enough. |
| 1:02.6 | It's time for ABC to take a stand. |
| 1:04.5 | How many times will ABC's leadership enable Kimmel's atrocious behavior |
| 1:08.2 | at the expense of our community? |
| 1:09.9 | The president also responds to it. |
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