{"id":7170,"date":"2026-04-28T22:52:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T22:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=7170"},"modified":"2026-04-28T22:52:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T22:52:37","slug":"kimmel-doubles-down-on-melania-expectant-widow-insult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/?p=7170","title":{"rendered":"Kimmel Doubles Down On Melania \u2018Expectant Widow\u2019 Insult"},"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>In the days after the shooting attempt, two dramas collided: a late-night monologue and a real-life brush with political violence. Jimmy Kimmel stood by his \u201clight roast\u201d of Melania Trump, insisting it was about age and a miserable marriage, not a call to kill the former president. Melania and Donald Trump, facing a credible threat in a Washington ballroom, saw nothing light about it and publicly demanded Kimmel be fired.<\/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>Meanwhile, prosecutors painted a chilling picture of suspect Cole Allen, who allegedly arrived at the Hilton armed, focused, and fueled by a manifesto raging against Trump and his Cabinet. Kimmel apologized only to journalists and attendees traumatized by the attack, rejecting any link between his joke and the gunman\u2019s actions. What remains is an uneasy question hanging over American politics: where is the line between sharp satire and a culture already on the edge?<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 1 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the days after the shooting attempt, two dramas collided: a late-night monologue and a real-life brush with political violence. Jimmy Kimmel stood by his \u201clight roast\u201d of Melania Trump, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7170","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\/7170","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=7170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7172,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7170\/revisions\/7172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heightshowtime.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}