{"id":19589,"date":"2026-06-12T22:15:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T22:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=19589"},"modified":"2026-06-12T22:15:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T22:15:24","slug":"kimmel-doubles-down-on-melania-expectant-widow-insult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=19589","title":{"rendered":"Kimmel Doubles Down On Melania \u2018Expectant Widow\u2019 Insult"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"185\">Comedian\u00a0<span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Jimmy Kimmel<\/span><\/span>\u00a0addressed controversy after a joke about the First Lady and political tension surrounding President\u00a0<span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Donald Trump<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"187\" data-end=\"444\">During his monologue, Kimmel defended his comments as satire, criticized political rhetoric, and referenced concerns about free speech while also expressing sympathy for those affected by a recent security incident at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"446\" data-end=\"699\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">President Trump and First Lady\u00a0<span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Melania Trump<\/span><\/span>\u00a0later called for accountability, while authorities reported a separate armed security threat at the event that led to serious federal charges against an individual accused in the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Comedian\u00a0Jimmy Kimmel\u00a0addressed controversy after a joke about the First Lady and political tension surrounding President\u00a0Donald Trump. During his monologue, Kimmel defended his comments as satire, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=19589\" title=\"Kimmel Doubles Down On Melania \u2018Expectant Widow\u2019 Insult\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19591,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19589\/revisions\/19591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}