ABC late-night host Jimmy Kimmel remained defiant Monday night, insisting his now-viral « expectant widow » joke about President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump was simply about their age.
« 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 during his monologue. « 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. « I’ve been very vocal for many years speaking out against gun violence in particular, but I understand that the First Lady had a stressful experience over the weekend, and probably every weekend is pretty stressful in that house. »
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