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Kimmel: ‘Widow’ Joke at Melania ‘Was Obviously’ About ‘Age Difference,’ ‘A Great Place to Start’ Dialing Back Hateful Rhetoric Is with the President

‘And the look of joy we see on her face every time they’re together’

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KIMMEL: “And a call to fire me from our First Lady Melania Trump saying I should be fired because of a joke I made, again, five nights ago. It was a pretend roast. I said our “First Lady Melania’s here, look at her, so beautiful, Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.” [Laughter] Which obviously was a joke about their age difference. And the look of joy we see on her face every time they’re together. [Laughter] It was a very light roast joke about the fact that he’s almost 80 and she’s younger than I am. 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. But I understand that the First Lady had a stressful experience over the weekend. And probably every weekend is pretty stressful in that house. [Laughter] And also I agree that hateful and violent rhetoric is something we should reject. I do. And I think a great place to start to dial that back would be to have a conversation with your husband about it.”

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