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[Todd Test]

With the hundreds of islands around here the possibilities are endless..

[LJ]

Who cares? I wouldn't recognize him if he came to my front door, so his privacy is safe with me.

[Matt R.]

Agreed. The only one making a big deal about it is him.

[Todd Test]

Who cares? I wouldn't recognize him if he came to my front door, so his privacy is safe with me.

I was thinking about getting a satchel, looks very convenient. he carries a satchel

[Victoria Watcher]

Melania Trump urges ABC to ‘take a stand’ after Jimmy Kimmel’s ‘widow’ joke  

 

Kimmel joked Melania had the glow of an ‘expectant widow’ just days before the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting

 

 

 

https://www.independ...c-b2965740.html

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 27 April 2026 - 06:51 AM.

[Mike K.]

That sort of comedy would get you cancelled in Nanaimo.

[Blair M.]

I don't watch Kimmel, but mocking thin-skinned public figures - public figures who themselves mock, humiliate, and verbally abuse dozens of other folks - is hardly a crime, especially when mocked as part of a performance by a comedian.

 

Kimmel's jokes (like them or hate them) remind us that Trump himself is a serial verbal abuser, and that what goes around - most definitely comes around. 

[max.bravo]

I have to agree, Blair. Kimmel's jokes are in poor taste, but no worse than anything Trump says.

[Victoria Watcher]

Joking about the death/assassination of a president is not good.

[Matt R.]

That sort of comedy would get you cancelled in Nanaimo.

Only if it was about our leader.

[lanforod]

Joking about the death/assassination of a president is not good.

Pretty much on par with threatening the sovereign territory of allies.

[Victoria Watcher]

Which ally leader did he threaten with death?

[Blair M.]

Do we know the joke was about assassination?

Kimmel can no more predict the future than you or I can. 
He had no premonition regarding an assassination attempt. 

Perhaps he was joking about Trumps natural death - part of his long running string of jokes about Trumps rather unhealthy eating habits, consisting primarily of McDonalds hamburgers and Diet Cokes. 
 

The above, combined with Trumps weight and age, have been productive fodder for lots of comedians since Trumps first term. 

Edited by Blair M., 27 April 2026 - 11:39 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

I don’t think so. I agree he could not have seen what we coming. But he wasn’t taking about a natural death.

None of the talk shows joked about Swalwell, the California Democrat.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 27 April 2026 - 11:40 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

[Victoria Watcher]

[Victoria Watcher]

Hey, remember when Aaron Rodgers used his free speech to joke about Jimmy Kimmel and Epstein, and Kimmel threatened to sue?

 

 

https://www.louderwi...tm_medium=email

 

 

 

 

 

It sets the stage for Rodgers talking with Pat McAfee (who, apropos of nothing, is a more entertaining wrestler than Kyle Fletcher), and makes a joke about the following:

 

"[The Epstein List] is supposed to be coming out soon… There’s a lot of people, including Jimmy Kimmel that are really hoping that doesn’t come out.”

 

 

Presumably a reference to Kimmel's close friend (allegedly), chef Adam Perry Lang, who served as Jeffrey Epstein's personal chef and claimed he was unaware of Epstein's depraved behavior, though he flew on Epstein's private jet and stayed in Epstein's home. Allegedly.

 

Free Speech champion Jimmy Kimmel threatened a lawsuit, claiming "soft-brained wackos like [Rodgers] can’t seem to distinguish from reality," and that his "reckless words" put Kimmel's "family in danger." Unlike the reckless words used by mainstream Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself), claiming Donald Trump is a fascist who is going to destroy Democracy and wants everyone dead, and there needs to be maximum warfare against him.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 28 April 2026 - 04:06 AM.

[Blair M.]

Kimmel has confirmed what I noted in my above post - that the joke was simply a reference to Trumps age vs. his wife's age. 

 

The joke had nothing whatsoever to do with violence, or assassination rhetoric. 

 

https://www.bbc.com/...es/c04x40d4424o

[E2V]

Of course it did.