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Kimmel’s crass first lady joke: Letters to the Editor — April 29, 2026

The Issue: Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel referring to First Lady Melania Trump as “an expectant widow.”

Even for a bad comedian, timing is everything; Jimmy Kimmel proved that age-old axiom with his tasteless comment that First Lady Melania Trump has a “glow like an expectant widow” (“Trumps call to can this joker,” April 28).

I’m old enough to remember when late-night hosts were funny.

Kimmel, like the other also-ran Stephen Colbert, is a hack whose ratings bear out his marginal talent.

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What was Kimmel’s grave sin?

He made a tasteless joke that Melania has “the glow of an expectant widow.”

Has the first lady ever listened to her husband speak?

Does she think he spreads love when he refers to his enemies as low-life scum, traitors, wackos, vermin, garbage and more?

He has called for those who oppose him to be charged with treason and executed.

Apparently, Melania’s credo is that free speech is to be prohibited when her husband is the target.

If you let Kimmel get away with his rhetoric, then you are a........

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