{"id":6804,"date":"2026-04-27T13:47:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:47:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=6804"},"modified":"2026-04-27T13:47:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T13:47:34","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-slammed-for-melania-trump-widow-joke-before-whcd-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=6804","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel slammed for Melania Trump \u2018widow\u2019 joke before WHCD shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1861172\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>As details of the attempted attack at the Washington Hilton emerged, Kimmel\u2019s joke about Melania Trump \u201cglowing like an expectant widow\u201d was replayed with chilling new weight. What had aired as pointed political satire days earlier was now being framed by critics as a grotesque symbol of a media ecosystem they claim has normalized fantasies of political violence. Conservative commentators called Kimmel \u201cbroken\u201d and even \u201cevil,\u201d accusing him and others in late-night TV of stoking division for applause.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-4\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1861172\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>In the aftermath, images of a shaken ballroom, a wounded officer saved by his vest, and the Trumps being rushed to safety collided with that resurfaced clip. Trump\u2019s defiant statement\u2014\u201cWhen you\u2019re impactful, they go after you\u201d\u2014only sharpened the sense of siege. The Correspondents\u2019 Dinner will be rescheduled, \u201cbigger and better,\u201d officials promise. But the question now lingers over Hollywood and Washington alike: when does a joke stop being just a jok<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As details of the attempted attack at the Washington Hilton emerged, Kimmel\u2019s joke about Melania Trump \u201cglowing like an expectant widow\u201d was replayed with chilling new weight. What had aired &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6806,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6804\/revisions\/6806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}