Jimmy Kimmel, the ABC late-night host, defended Monday night his now-viral “expectant widow” joke about President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump, saying it was meant to highlight their age difference and was not a call to assassination, he said during his monologue.
“This was Thursday, and there was no big reaction to it until this morning, when I greeted the day facing yet another Twitter vomit storm,” Kimmel said. “I said, our First Lady, Melania, is here. Look at her. So beautiful. This is from the glow. Like an expected widow, which obviously was a joke about their age difference and the look of joy we see on her face every time they were together.”
“It was a very light roast joke about the fact that he’s almost 80, and she’s younger than I am. It was not, by any stretch of the definition, a call to assassination — and they know that,” he continued.
Kimmel also said he has spoken out against gun violence for years and acknowledged the First Lady “had a stressful experience over the weekend, and probably every weekend is pretty stressful in that house,” according to his monologue.
Jon Ross Myers is the executive editor and publisher of the Mississippi News Network, Mississippi's largest digital only media company. He can be reached at editor@tippahnews.com
