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- Kimmel Flips the Script on Trump: ‘Wait a Minute – Did He Just Make a Joke ...
Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel pulled a gotcha on President Donald Trump on Tuesday night after the president joked about his own death. Trump’s crack came a day after he called for Kimmel to be fired for referring to First Lady Melania Trump as “an expectant widow.” Last Thursday, Kimmel performed a mock roast of Trump and the administration. At one point, the comedian said, “Our First Lady Melania is here. Look at her, so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.” The joke largely flew under the radar until Saturday’s aborted White House Correspondents’ Dinner, where a gunman was apprehended near a security screening area. The president was quickly escorted out of the venue. On Monday, the first lady issued a statement accusing Kimmel of “violent rhetoric” and said he should be off the air. The president soon followed and demanded ABC News fire him “immediately.” On Tuesday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the host played a clip of the president welcoming King Charles III to Washington, D.C. for an official state visit earlier in the day. “My wonderful mother, Mary MacLeod,” Trump said. “She came to America at 19, met my incredible father. We loved him so much. We all loved him. We loved her. We loved him, Fred. And they were married for 63 years.” At that moment, the president, who will turn 80 on June 14, turned to the first lady, 56. “And excuse me, if you don’t mind, that’s a record we won’t be able to match, darling,” the president told his wife of 21 years. “I’m sorry. Just not gonna work out that way.” The clip ended, and Kimmel noted the irony. “Wait a minute – did he just make a joke about his death?” he said to laughter and applause. “My God. He should be fired for that. Only Donald Trump would demand I be fired for making a joke about his old age, and then a day later, go out and make a joke about his own old age!” Watch above via ABC.The post Kimmel Flips the Script on Trump: ‘Wait a Minute – Did He Just Make a Joke About His Death?’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.35 mins ago - Trump Reportedly Told Inner Circle To Prepare for Prolonged Blockade of Iran
Jose Luis Magana/AP photo President Donald Trump told his inner circle to prepare for a prolonged blockade of Iran to force the regime to comply with his demands, according to U.S. officials. Trump’s two-month conflict with Iran quieted in recent weeks after the ceasefire deal brokered in early April and its subsequent extension. The president has continued to claim that Iranian officials are searching for an end to the war, though he decided last weekend to cancel Vice President JD Vance’s trip to Pakistan for another set of negotiations. The current stasis of the conflict is Trump’s preferred strategy, officials told The Wall Street Journal, as the president seeks to put continued pressure on Iran to give up all nuclear capacity. The U.S. blockade of the crucial oil strait, which Trump instituted after the first round of unsuccessful peace negotiations, carries less risk than a resumption of bombing or abandoning the war, the president believes. “Trump’s decision represents a new phase of sorts of the war and highlights the fact that the president, who always seeks a quick and salable victory, is devoid of a silver bullet,” the report reads. The president’s hazy road to victory has caused some U.S. officials to claim that the war will likely either resume or be ended by a nuclear agreement. Trump was briefed on the latest proposal from Iran during a White House Situation Room meeting on Monday. He was reportedly frustrated with the country’s refusal to agree to end nuclear enrichment, a position the country has steadfastly held throughout the war. Trump and his team allegedly concluded that to agree to the deal would weaken the White House’s push for a nuclear-free Iran, while resuming hostilities would further harm the region and drive up already skyrocketing costs. The president wants to maintain his blockade indefinitely, according to the Journal, believing it to be the most effective strategy to extract his desired result. The economic toll the move has wrought on Iran pushed the regime to reach out to Washington, a senior U.S. official told The Journal, with the country facing difficulties in storing the oil the U.S. has blocked from getting sold. Trump touted the blockade on Tuesday, writing on Truth Social that the nation was in a “State of Collapse” due to the move. He has continuously shrugged off the skyrocketing oil prices brought about by the war’s continuation, reiterating the harm a nuclear Iran… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Fox News Legal Analyst Shreds Trump DOJ’s ‘Absurd’ Comey Prosecution
Fox News legal analyst Andy McCarthy wrote a scathing takedown of the Department of Justice after a grand jury indicted former FBI Director James Comey. Comey was charged in the Eastern District of North Carolina over an Instagram post he made in May 2025, which he later deleted after conservative uproar. The post showed an image of seashells on a beach arranged to read “86 47.” The former FBI director wrote, “Cool shell formation on my beach walk.” President Donald Trump is the 47th president, and “86” is slang, typically meaning to refuse service to someone or to remove a person from an establishment. Conservatives insisted the “86” in this case was an explicit threat to kill the president. Comey said at the time that it was “crazy” to think his post was a threat. Writing in the National Review on Tuesday, McCarthy shredded the indictment, which he said was more absurd than last year’s, in which Comey was charged with lying to, and obstructing Congress back in 2020. A judge tossed that case. “If it’s possible, the Trump Justice Department’s new indictment of former FBI Director James Comey is even more absurd than the previous indictment,” McCarthy wrote. “That one failed to state a crime. This one fabricates a crime.” McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor, went on to say the DOJ is “moronically” insisting that Comey’s “86 47” post was a threat to assassinate Trump. McCarthy continued: After uproar generated by the administration, Comey took down the post and publicly asserted that he opposes violence and meant no such suggestion. He also voluntarily submitted to interviews with the Secret Service — which proceeded to drop what should never have been a criminal investigation. There was not a threat of violence against the president, much less an unambiguous call for his assassination. Nor would it be remotely possible, on the known evidence, to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Comey intended violence. What Comey did, therefore, does not come close to a threat to kill or harm the president (criminalized by Section 871 of the federal penal code), much less to solicitation of a violent crime (i.e., incitement, under Section 373). This farce, then, is nothing more than a continuation of Trump’s lawfare campaign against a political enemy. It is inconceivable that Comey could be convicted of a crime in these circumstances, but the president’s minions are putting him through… [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - FCC Commissioner Says Probe Into Disney Over Kimmel’s Trump Joke Is ‘Outrage...A commissioner with the Federal Communications Commission called a reported probe into Disney’s broadcast licenses following a Jimmy Kimmel joke about President Donald Trump an “outrageous assault on freedom of speech. Anna Gomez, appointed as an FCC commissioner under former President Joe Biden, joined MS NOW’s Chris Hayes on Tuesday evening and blasted FCC Chair Brendan Carr over a probe into Disney’s broadcast licenses. Disney is the parent company of ABC, which airs Kimmel’s late-night show. Kimmel refused to apologize this week for a joke that has earned him pushback from First Lady Melania Trump and plenty of other White House officials. “Look at her, so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow,” Kimmel joked last week. The remark earned scrutiny following a shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, which Trump attended. Kimmel was previously temporarily suspended by ABC after a joke referring to conservative activist Charlie Kirk following his assassination last year. Carr mentioned at the time that the FCC was reviewing licenses for companies like Disney. Gomez said the probe into Disney is simply retaliation against a vocal critic of the president. “What we saw today was the White House called for the silencing of a vocal critic and the FCC answered that call,” she said. “What the FCC did today was it issued an order to renew, to start the renewal process for Disney-owned local broadcast stations, and that renewal process is years in advance of when that was supposed to happen, but this is all just as an excuse in order to retaliate against voices that this administration opposes.” Gomez pushed Disney to fight back, arguing the First Amendment is on their side regarding Kimmel. “This is an outrageous assault on the freedom of speech by this FCC in order to retaliate against Disney and against the critics of this administration,” she said. “It is unprecedented, it is unlawful, and it is bound to fail. So Disney should push back because Disney has the First Amendment on its side and it will win against this FCC action.” Watch above via MS NOW.The post FCC Commissioner Says Probe Into Disney Over Kimmel’s Trump Joke Is ‘Outrageous Assault on Freedom of Speech’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.3 hours ago
- ‘I Don’t Think She Checked With the President’: Brian Kilmeade Suggests Me...Fox News host Brian Kilmeade suggested on Tuesday that First Lady Melania Trump issued her public statement criticizing Jimmy Kimmel without running it by the president. Days before Saturday’s shooting at White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Kimmel did a mock roast of President Donald Trump and his administration, including the first lady. “Our First Lady Melania is here,” he said. “Look at her, so beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.” Many figures on the right, including those within the Trump administration, were quick to jump on Kimmel’s remark as a call to harm the president, after Cole Tomas Allen opened fire at the Washington Hilton and was later charged with attempting to assassinate Trump. One of the first to call out the Jimmy Kimmel Live! host was Melania Trump, who called Kimmel’s remarks “hateful and violent rhetoric” in a statement on Monday. “Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country. His monologue about my family isn’t comedy- his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America. People like Kimmel shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate,” she said. “A coward, Kimmel hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him. Enough is enough. It is time for ABC to take a stand. How many times will ABC’s leadership enable Kimmel’s atrocious behavior at the expense of our community.” Trump was quick to follow with his own attacks on Kimmel, going so far as to urge that he be fired by his show’s network over his “despicable call to violence.” Speaking on Tuesday’s edition of The Five, Kilmeade said he believed that Melania’s statement was made without prior discussion with Trump, claiming her statement was the reason Kimmel’s remark received such widespread attention. “The one thing, the reason why I think this got to be big news is because Melania Trump doesn’t complain about anything,” he said. “So when someone who never loses it posts online, I don’t think she checked with the president, personally, and just posts online, ‘This is ridiculous, got to be fired, ABC has been covering for him, I cannot believe he had that joke,’ and people came back and said, ‘Well, why didn’t you say something Thursday?’ Because she doesn’t watch him. There’s not a person who likes Donald Trump who would ever watch Jimmy Kimmel in a million years.” Kilmeade later… [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago
- James Carville Says Trump Can’t Be the Antichrist Because He’s Too Dumb: ‘...James Carville applauded himself this week for stopping short of calling President Donald Trump the “antichrist” in a video posted just days after a shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. In a video for Politico, Carville, who had proudly declared he has “Trump Derangement Syndrome,” dismissed the backlash he has received for vulgar rants about Trump, saying he’s actually fairly modest in his mind about how he criticizes Trump. He said: Many times people have criticized me because I’ve called Trump the MF-word and I’ve called him worse than that, and I’ve called him a sack of sh**. Rod [Dreher], who is Vance’s spiritual mentor, and Tucker Carlson, who is a person of some substance in the Republican Party, have both called Trump the Antichrist. Well, even I haven’t gotten there. So, please, all the people that fight in the street about my name-calling, understand this. I have not yet referred to Donald John Trump as the Antichrist. Alright? Because I think Antichrist would be smarter than him. Cole Tomas Allen, 31, made his first court appearance on Monday after being charged with attempting to assassinate the president. White House officials have blamed the shooting on rhetoric from Democrats about Trump. White Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said this week: As you all know, we disagree often, myself in this role and all of you in the news media. But those disagreements must remain peaceful. Debating, peaceful protesting, and voting are how we need to settle disagreements, not bullets. Nobody in recent years has faced more bullets and more violence than President Trump. This political violence stems from a systemic demonization of him and his supporters by commentators, yes, by elected members of the Democrat Party, and even some in the media. This hateful and constant and violent rhetoric directed at President Trump day after day after day for 11 years has helped to legitimize this violence and bring us to this dark moment. Watch above via Politicon.The post James Carville Says Trump Can’t Be the Antichrist Because He’s Too Dumb: ‘Antichrist Would Be Smarter’ first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.4 hours ago
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