Marc Beckman | Exclusive Senior Advisor for First Lady Melania Trump | 04-28-26
Sid & Friends In The Morning
77 WABC
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🗓️ 28 April 2026
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:54.2 | Mark Beckman is here. He was on Fox News this morning. He's in studio with us quite a bit. |
| 0:58.7 | And he is really the mouthpiece with a beautiful Melania Trump, who has been put through hell, |
| 1:05.0 | as if Saturday night wasn't scary enough for poor Melania. Now you got this A-hole Jimmy Kimmel on television, who had an opportunity last night to either bury it or apologize, and he doubled down. |
| 1:17.8 | He doubled down. |
| 1:19.8 | Even David Axelrod is being critical of Jimmy this morning, and Axelrod is evil. So here he is, my friend Mark Beckman. Mark, good morning, pal. How are you? Sid, good morning. Thank you for having me. How are you today? I'm great. I thought you'd be in studio today. Where were you? I was not invited. I'm very insulted, very insulted. But I'm happy that you're fired up about Jimmy Kimmel |
| 1:45.8 | because certainly I am. You are, and I would imagine that so is Melania. I mean, I've read everything. |
| 1:54.8 | I've seen all her comments. I read her truth social post, and, you know, she's a very elegant, classy lady. She doesn't talk like me, |
| 2:03.3 | but I think she would if she could because I think she's really pissed, Mark, really pissed. |
| 2:10.3 | Well, Sid, I want to ask you a question. Here's my point of view. I think it's time for ABC |
| 2:15.5 | to fire Jimmy Kimmel. I'm sure you agree. But my question is this. |
| 2:20.4 | Take the issue of the First Amendment out. Get rid of freedom of speech for a second and think about |
| 2:26.1 | it just purely as a commercial issue. Why on earth would ABC and the advertisers want to affiliate with Kimmel when time and time again |
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