{"id":16992,"date":"2026-04-28T21:34:56","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T21:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=16992"},"modified":"2026-05-05T11:37:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T11:37:39","slug":"kimmel-doubles-down-on-melania-expectant-widow-insult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/?p=16992","title":{"rendered":"Kimmel Doubles Down On Melania \u2018Expectant Widow\u2019 Insult"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After the shooting attempt, two stories collided: a late-night joke and real political violence. Jimmy Kimmel defended his remark about Melania Trump as satire, while she and Donald Trump, facing a serious threat, called for consequences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prosecutors described suspect Cole Allen as armed and driven by a hostile manifesto. Kimmel apologized to those affected but denied any link. The episode leaves a deeper question: where does satire end in a climate already on edge?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the shooting attempt, two stories collided: a late-night joke and real political violence. Jimmy Kimmel defended his remark about Melania Trump as satire, while she and Donald Trump, facing a serious threat, called for consequences. Prosecutors described suspect Cole Allen as armed and driven by a hostile manifesto. Kimmel apologized to those affected but &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":17061,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16992","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16992"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17062,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16992\/revisions\/17062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fnews55.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}