NPR⁠84%

Melania Trump wants ABC to 'take a stand' against Jimmy Kimmel after 'hateful' joke ⁠43%

By Mandalit del Barco⁠0%

4/27/2026, 11:26:22 AM

BS Summary: This article contains 11 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Appeal to Emotion, and Ad Hominem, with Indoctrination as the most egregious example at 21% saturation with 93 hits. Analysis detected 432 faulty-reasoning hits from 443 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 46.5% and a BS Rank of ⁠43% (12,599 of 21,887 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 57.60% of the article peer group.

First lady Melania Trump is not happy about late night host Jimmy Kimmel's recent joke about her. 
"Look at Melania, so beautiful. 
Mrs. 
Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow," Kimmel quipped during a sketch on his show "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" 
The segment was the comedian's mock alternative speech to the White House Correspondents' Dinner, which aired two days before the real event the Trumps attended together ended in gunfire. 
Authorities subdued a heavily armed man who they say entered the Washington Hilton ballroom in an attempt to target administration officials. 
In a post on X, the first lady called Kimmel's joke about her "hateful and violent." 
"His monologue about my family isn't comedy- his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America," she wrote. 
"People like Kimmel shouldn't have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate." 
Mrs. 
Trump urged ABC, the network that airs Kimmel's weeknight show, to take action, asking "how many times will ABC's leadership enable Kimmel's atrocious behavior at the expense of our community?" 
Hours later, President Trump took to social media to lend support to his wife. 
Trump wrote that Kimmel's comments went "beyond the pale" and that Jimmy Kimmel should be "immediately fired by Disney and ABC." 
In September, Kimmel was taken off the air after a conservative backlash over comments Kimmel made in the aftermath of Turning Point USA co-founder Charlie Kirk's assassination. 
In his monologue, Kimmel said the "MAGA gang" was trying to score political points from the murder. 
The FCC Chair Brendan Carr responded to the backlash by threatening ABC affiliates. 
"We can do this the easy way or the hard way," Carr said to podcaster Benny Johnson. 
"These companies can find ways to change conduct, to take action on Kimmel or, you know, there's going to be additional work for the FCC ahead." 
Disney — which owns ABC — decided to suspend Kimmel's show. 
That decision sparked a furor over free speech and censorship. 
Kimmel's show returned six days later, and the host said, "it was never my intention to make light of the murder of a young man." 
Kimmel accepted why some people were upset with his remarks and said they had been "ill-timed,or unclear or maybe both." 
NPR has reached out to ABC and Jimmy Kimmel for comment. 
Meanwhile, users on X have been responding to Melania Trump's post. 
Some appear to be supportive. 
Others point to the president's history of strongly worded, disparaging and racist remarks in posts about women and his political detractors such as Barack Obama. 
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443 words analyzed.

Speakers

4speakers49%attributed speech228writer words
Voice mapSelect a segment to jump to its words
Writer's voice • 14 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 17 words • 0.0% coverageJimmy Kimmel • 5 words • 0.0% coverageJimmy Kimmel • 1 words • 0.0% coverageJimmy Kimmel • 20 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 29 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 21 words • 0.0% coverageMelania Trump • 16 words • 0.0% coverageMelania Trump • 20 words • 0.0% coverageMelania Trump • 16 words • 100.0% coverageMelania Trump • 1 words • 0.0% coverageMelania Trump • 30 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 14 words • 0.0% coveragePresident Trump • 21 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 27 words • 0.0% coverageJimmy Kimmel • 17 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 13 words • 0.0% coverageBrendan Carr • 17 words • 0.0% coverageBrendan Carr • 26 words • 100.0% coverageWriter's voice • 11 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 10 words • 0.0% coverageJimmy Kimmel • 25 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 20 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 11 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 11 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 5 words • 0.0% coverageWriter's voice • 25 words • 100.0% coverage
Selected voice

President Trump

100%flagged-word coverage
21 attributed words9.8% of attributed speech17% writer coverage
0%50.0%100.0%Indoctrination+100.0 ptsWriter: 0.0%President Trump: 100.0%100.0%Politically Left Leaning B-11.0 ptsWriter: 11.0%President Trump: 0.0%0.0%Biased Writer Voice-6.1 ptsWriter: 6.1%President Trump: 0.0%0.0%

Attribution is sentence-level. Pattern percentages are calculated only from words assigned to that voice.

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