US President Donald Trump has made a joke about the age gap between him and his wife, Melania, saying they “won’t be able” to match his parents’ record. <\/p>\n
Trump, 79, is 24 years older than his wife, who he met in 1998 and married in 2005. <\/p>\n
At an event with King Charles III and Queen Camilla, the President spoke about his parents’ 63-year marriage. <\/p>\n
He then turned to his wife, who sat behind him, saying, “Excuse me, if you don’t mind”. <\/p>\n
“That’s a record we won’t be able to match, darling.<\/p>\n
“I’m sorry, it’s just not gonna work out that way. We’ll do well, but we’re not gonna do that well.” <\/p>\n
While the audience laughed, Melania had a slight smirk but remained silent. The King had a similar reaction. <\/p>\n
It followed fallout from a joke made by late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel<\/a>, who claimed he was also poking fun at the couple’s age gap. <\/p>\n Kimmel joked that Melania had a “glow like an expectant widow” during a skit parodying the upcoming White House Correspondents’ dinner. <\/p>\n Just days later, the President, members of his cabinet, and guests at the actual dinner were evacuated after shots were fired<\/a> when an armed man attempted to storm in. <\/p>\n Suspect Cole Tomas Allen<\/a> has been charged with the attempted assassination of the President<\/a>. <\/p>\n Melania took to social media after Kimmel’s joke, accusing him of using \u201chateful and violent rhetoric”. <\/p>\n She called him a \u201ccoward\u201d who \u201chides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him\u201d.<\/p>\n The President said Kimmel should be “immediately fired” by Disney and ABC, who run his show. He claimed Kimmel’s joke was a “call to violence”. <\/p>\n Kimmel explained his joke was a “light roast joke about the fact that he’s almost 80 and she’s younger than I am”.<\/p>\n “It was not by any stretch of the definition a call to assassination, and they know that, I’ve been very vocal for many years speaking out against gun violence in particular,” he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"US President Donald Trump has made a joke about the age gap between him and his wife, Melania,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402555,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[65,42,43,64,40,38,41,39,66],"class_list":["post-402554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-donald-trump","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-north-america","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-us-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402554\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}