Jimmy Kimmel doubles down on Melania ‘widow’ jab — will this be the nail in his coffin?

On April 23, just two days before the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Jimmy Kimmel released a skit parodying the event, during which he joked that Melania Trump had "a glow like an expectant widow.”
Of course, at the actual WHCD, President Trump and others in the administration were victims of yet another assassination attempt.
But instead of apologizing for his comment, which Melania called “hateful and violent rhetoric” and cause for his firing, Kimmel doubled down.
“[It] obviously was a joke about their age difference and the look of joy we see on her face every time they're together. It was a very light roast joke about the fact that he's almost 80 and she's younger than I am,” the late-night host said. “It was not by any stretch of the definition a call to assassination, and they know that.”
BlazeTV host Sara Gonzales isn’t buying Kimmel’s excuses. This time, she argues, he may have pushed his luck too far.
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“Jimmy Kimmel: His time might finally be up,” says Sara, pointing to Kimmel’s history of making deliberately inflammatory comments.
In September 2025, immediately following the murder of Charlie Kirk, Kimmel made a comment many viewed as insensitive or politicizing the killing, sparking massive backlash, threats from the FCC chairman, affiliate stations pulling his show, and ABC temporarily suspending “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
“After everything had happened and after all of the blowback that he had had, has he learned anything?” asks Sara. “The answer is no. They never do.”
She highlights the left’s glaring double standard when it comes to humor.
“They are outraged any time President Trump ever tells [a joke]. ... In fact, nobody on the right can ever tell a joke without them being just horrified, without them clutching their pearls,” she rails.
Sara also makes fun of the left’s obsession with cancel culture, only to turn around and whine about it when it affects one of their own.
“The left has never engaged in cancel culture and called for people to be fired. They only created the damn game,” she scoffs, pointing to recent headlines from CBS News, People, and Poynter defending Kimmel against calls from President Trump and Melania for his firing.
But despite mainstream media coming to his rescue, Sara is hopeful that Kimmel will actually be canned this time.
“There is a new sheriff in town at Disney,” she says, referring to Josh D’Amaro, who replaced Bob Iger as CEO of Disney in March this year.
D’Amaro, she says, may do things differently to avoid the scandals that pushed Iger out the door.
“This is going to be his first test of going head-to-head with President Trump, and the same sort of drama took down a former Disney CEO, so … you would imagine he’s going to want to stay on President Trump’s good side,” she speculates.
But on top of playing nice with Trump, there’s also the issue of Kimmel’s unpopularity.
“I mean, when you look at his ratings, he doesn't seem to be worth saving,” says Sara, displaying a chart of Kimmel’s cataclysmic fall from peak popularity in 2015 to all-time lows in 2026.
“I'm just trying to will [Kimmel’s firing] into existence. … Can you blame me?” she asks. “I just want these people to … have a taste of their own medicine.”
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ABC extends Jimmy Kimmel contract despite outrage over Charlie Kirk comments
Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show has been extended for one more year, according to a statement from the ABC television network.
The show was taken off the air in September after Kimmel implied that the suspect in the assassination of Charlie Kirk had been a member of the pro-Trump MAGA movement. The show was returned to broadcast after about six days.
'Why do the TV Syndicates put up with it? Also, totally biased coverage. Get the bum off the air!!!'
On Monday, Variety reported that sources confirmed the contract deal would keep Kimmel on as the host of "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" until at least 2027.
Many took the decision as a defiant statement against the wishes of President Donald Trump.
"These days, it's notable whenever a major media company ignores Trump's pressure and stands with talent. So let's note that Disney has renewed Jimmy Kimmel's contract for another year," CNN media analyst Brian Stelter said.
Kimmel appeared to reference the president in a post confirming the deal on Instagram.
"I am pleased to announce another no-talent year!" he wrote, using an insult Trump had used against him and his show.
Stelter went on to claim that Disney, the parent company of ABC, caved to pressure from some viewers who canceled their Disney Plus accounts to protest Kimmel's cancellation.
"It was clear that Kimmel was the big winner of that episode," he added. "He gained more power and leverage from the outrageous episode of government censorship."
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Kimmel has been hosting the show since January of 2003.
He has used the entertainment platform to bash Trump, his policies, and his supporters. The president has responded by issuing fiery insults on social media.
"Why does ABC Fake News keep Jimmy Kimmel, a man with NO TALENT and VERY POOR TELEVISION RATINGS, on the air?" the president wrote in November. "Why do the TV Syndicates put up with it? Also, totally biased coverage. Get the bum off the air!!!"
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