{"id":412222,"date":"2026-04-26T20:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T20:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/412222\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T20:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T20:50:10","slug":"jimmy-kimmel-calls-melania-trump-an-expectant-widow-in-dinner-parody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/412222\/","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Kimmel calls Melania Trump an ‘expectant widow’ in dinner parody"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles!\n <\/p>\n

Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel mocked President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump in a White House Correspondents’ Dinner parody this week, calling her “an expectant widow” and joking about her marriage, just days before the dinner was disrupted by a shooting<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Our First Lady, Melania, is here. Look at Melania, so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow,” Kimmel said in his parody of the event<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n

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Jimmy Kimmel delivered a White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner parody monologue on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” just days before the Washington Hilton shooting. (Jonathan Ernst\/Reuters)<\/p>\n

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The White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner is an annual gathering hosted by the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association to honor journalism and fund scholarships. This year\u2019s event, which took place on Saturday in Washington D.C., drew outsized attention because Trump attended in person<\/a> for the first time while in office, though the evening was later overshadowed by violence.<\/p>\n

Kimmel also used the parody to mock the Trumps’ relationship, portraying distance between the president and the first lady.<\/p>\n

“Oh, by the way, Melania, this is Donald. Donald, this is Melania,” Kimmel said.<\/p>\n

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President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump were escorted from the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner following the security incident. (Mandel Ngan\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

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The comedian pivoted to the first lady’s April 26 birthday and imagined how she would mark the occasion.<\/p>\n

“She\u2019s planning to celebrate at home the same way she always does, looking out a window and whispering, \u2018What have I done?\u2019” Kimmel said.<\/p>\n

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Law enforcement officers respond inside the Washington Hilton after authorities said suspect Cole Allen opened fire at a Secret Service checkpoint. (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

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Kimmel\u2019s segment aired just days before the annual Correspondents\u2019 Dinner was thrown into chaos when authorities said 31-year-old Cole Allen of Torrance, Calif., rushed a Secret Service checkpoint at the Washington Hilton armed with multiple weapons and opened fire on an officer.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital reported the officer was struck in a ballistic vest and taken to a hospital, while agents returned fire and detained Allen, who was also transported for treatment. Trump, first lady Melania Trump and senior administration officials were then rushed from the venue by Secret Service agents.<\/p>\n

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Fox News Digital<\/a> reached out to the White House and ABC for comment but did not immediately hear back.<\/p>\n

CJ Womack is an associate editor at Fox News.<\/p>\n

CJ joined Fox News Digital’s team in 2026, which highlights the vital role journalism plays in shaping politics and culture. He has years of experience analyzing and reporting on the news media.<\/p>\n

CJ graduated from Long Beach State University in 2025 with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a minor in Journalism.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Story tips can be sent to cj.womack@fox.com, and you can follow on Twitter.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel mocked President Donald Trump and first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[54,146,143135,85,46,4176,20401,411,7421],"class_list":{"0":"post-412222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-first-family","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-jimmy-kimmel","14":"tag-melania-trump","15":"tag-tv","16":"tag-white-house"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}