{"id":69754,"date":"2026-04-27T13:21:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T20:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=69754"},"modified":"2026-04-27T13:29:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T20:29:44","slug":"what-1st-amendment-melania-and-donald-trump-demand-that-jimmy-kimmel-be-taken-off-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=69754","title":{"rendered":"WHAT 1ST AMENDMENT? Melania and Donald Trump Demand that Jimmy Kimmel Be Taken Off the Air"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of the shooting at the White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner Saturday night, Donald Trump has been parading around the media making the case that he&#8217;s a brave hero who survived an attempt by Democrats to terminate his presidency. It&#8217;s just more of the myth making bullpucky that Trump is so well known for disseminating.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=WHAT 1ST AMENDMENT? Melania and Donald Trump Demand that Jimmy Kimmel Be Taken Off the Air%0D&#038;url=https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=69754\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to post this article on Twitter<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/intent\/compose?text=WHAT 1ST AMENDMENT? Melania and Donald Trump Demand that Jimmy Kimmel Be Taken Off the Air%20https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=69754\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to post on Bluesky<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-melania-baby.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump Baby and Melania Trump\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68501\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Consistent with Trump&#8217;s enduring fixation on demonizing his political opponents and the free press, Trump&#8217;s insignificant other, Melania, made a rare public statement that advances his determination to muzzle the media, particularly when it engages in accurate and honest criticism of him. On this occasion, Melania sought to respond to a joke made by Jimmy Kimmel last week.<\/p>\n<p><strong>SEE THIS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=69706\" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy Kimmel Hosts the ALTERNATIVE White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner Featuring Snowflake Trump<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Outraged by Kimmel&#8217;s audacity to deliver a comedy monologue, Melania posted a comment on X\/Twitter to express her dismay over a single line that referred to her and her charade of a marriage to Donald, the serial adulterer. What Kimmel said was that she had a <em>&#8220;glow like an expectant widow.&#8221;<\/em> In her hyperbolic overreaction Melania raged that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Kimmel\u2019s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country.  His monologue about my family isn\u2019t comedy- his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People like Kimmel shouldn\u2019t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate.  A coward, Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Enough is enough.  It is time for ABC to take a stand.  How many times will ABC\u2019s leadership enable Kimmel\u2019s atrocious behavior at the expense of our community.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"embed-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kimmel\u2019s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country.  His monologue about my family isn\u2019t comedy- his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America.  <\/p>\n<p>People like Kimmel shouldn\u2019t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; First Lady Melania Trump (@FLOTUS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FLOTUS\/status\/2048769128513585618?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 27, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>Melania has some massive testicular fortitude to complain about Kimmel&#8217;s allegedly <em>&#8220;hateful and violent rhetoric&#8221;<\/em>? Has she ever met her hateful HINO (Husband In Name Only)? And yet she brazenly calls for what amounts to the abolishment of the Constitution&#8217;s First Amendment, saying that <em>&#8220;Kimmel shouldn\u2019t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening.&#8221;<\/em> She then demands that ABC <em>&#8220;take a stand [against] Kimmel\u2019s atrocious behavior.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is just another attempt by the Trump regime to ban Kimmel from broadcasting, which they tried and failed to do last year. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=67674\" target=\"_blank\">Disappointed by his failure, Trump whined<\/a><\/strong> that <em>&#8220;I can\u2019t believe ABC Fake News gave Jimmy Kimmel his job back. The White House was told by ABC that his Show was cancelled!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Following Melania&#8217;s tweet, Trump chimed in with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/trumpstruth.org\/statuses\/38068\" target=\"_blank\">one of his own<\/a><\/strong>. It was a tediously long and incoherent comment that affirmed Melania&#8217;s anti-free press sentiments babbling about <em>&#8220;Kimmel\u2019s despicable call to violence,&#8221;<\/em> and demanding that &#8220;<em>Jimmy Kimmel should be immediately fired by Disney and ABC.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Of course, nothing in Kimmel&#8217;s jokes advocated anything approaching violence. Melania&#8217;s widow glow could be the result of Trump&#8217;s advanced age, poor health, and fast food diet. To the contrary, it is Trump who has been relentlessly <em>&#8220;corrosive&#8221;<\/em> and <em>&#8220;despicable&#8221;<\/em> and that promoted <em>&#8220;political sickness.&#8221;<\/em> In a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/atrupar.com\/post\/3mkgp7jwzpl26\" target=\"_blank\">60 Minutes special segment<\/a><\/strong> Sunday night, Trump told Norah O&#8217;Donnell that <em>&#8220;I do think the hate speech of the Democrats is very dangerous, much more so.&#8221;<\/em> That was right after he called O&#8217;Donnell <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/NewsCorpse\/status\/2048688379416744142\" target=\"_blank\"><em>&#8220;a horrible person&#8221;<\/em> and a <em>&#8220;disgrace.&#8221;<\/em><\/a><\/strong> Never mind that a report by his own Justice Department found that it is right-wingers who have been responsible for most political violence.<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=67483\" target=\"_blank\">Trump\u2019s Justice Dept Disappears Study that Proves Most Violence is Caused By Far Right Radicals<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s DoJ later tried (but failed) to disappear that report. In the meantime, Trump has literally <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=68290\" target=\"_blank\">called for the death of sitting members of Congress<\/a><\/strong>. He <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/trumpstruth.org\/statuses\/37382\" target=\"_blank\">celebrated the death<\/a><\/strong> of lifelong public servant and decorated veteran, Robert Mueller. And he has maligned Democrats and the press as <em>&#8220;treasonous,&#8221; &#8220;lunatics,&#8221; &#8220;vermin,&#8221;<\/em> and <em>&#8220;the enemy of the people.&#8221;<\/em> So any complaints that he &#8211; or Melania &#8211; have now about divisive rhetoric are &#8211; to put it in technical terms &#8211; BULLSHIT!<\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED STORIES:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=69633\" target=\"_blank\">The White House Correspondents Association Awards Are Gonna Really Piss Trump Off<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=67930\" target=\"_blank\">LOLOL: Jimmy Kimmel Crushes Trump in Poll Despite Having No Talent or Ratings (According to Trump)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=67674\" target=\"_blank\">Toddler Trump Throws Tantrum, Threatens to Sue ABC for Restoring Jimmy Kimmel and Free Speech<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Be sure to visit and follow News Corpse<br \/>\non <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewsCorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NewsCorpse\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/newscorpse.bsky.social\" target=\"_blank\">Bluesky<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.threads.net\/@newscorpse\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Threads<\/a>.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>And check out my books on Amazon:<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2aOYFpM\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\">Fox Nation vs. Reality:<br \/>\nThe Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong>Thanks so much for your support.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the wake of the shooting at the White House Correspondents&#8217; Dinner Saturday night, Donald Trump has been parading around the media making the case that he&#8217;s a brave hero who survived an attempt by Democrats to terminate his presidency. It&#8217;s just more of the myth making bullpucky that Trump is so well known for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14,1,15,8,16],"tags":[554,1135,1219,1180,1133],"class_list":["post-69754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-free-press","category-general","category-humor","category-propaganda","category-wankery","tag-donald-trump","tag-free-press","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-melania-trump","tag-propaganda"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/trump-melania-baby.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-i94","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":67674,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=67674","url_meta":{"origin":69754,"position":0},"title":"Toddler Trump Throws Tantrum, Threatens to Sue ABC for Restoring Jimmy Kimmel and Free Speech","author":"Mark NC","date":"9\/24\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The attempt by Donald Trump and his administration cronies to cancel the Constitution and free speech has backfired bigly. 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