Jimmy Kimmel responded directly to Melania Trump during his opening monologue on Monday night after the First Lady called for his firing: "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."
"You know how sometimes you wake up in the morning and the First Lady puts out a statement demanding you be fired from your job? We've all been there, right? What a day.
"As you know, they had to cancel the White House Correspondents' Dinner in Washington on Saturday night after a man with multiple guns and knives crashed the party and may have shot a Secret Service officer. Fortunately, the guy was wearing a bulletproof vest and is okay. He was charged today. No one was hurt, thank goodness. A lot of people were shaken up on a night that is supposed to be light-hearted.
"The White House Correspondents' Dinner, if you don't know, it used to be an annual event before Trump showed up, but every year they'd have a comedian roast the room. The President, the Vice President, members of the press—everybody got roasted. I did it once; I hosted it. It was a lot of fun.
"But this year they said, 'No comedian. We're bringing in a mentalist instead.' So on Thursday, three days before the event, in order to keep that cherished tradition alive, I did my own version of the correspondents' dinner on my show. I put on a tuxedo. We pretended we had an audience of luminaries. We used old footage of the Trumps, of Pete Hegseth, J.D. Vance, Kid Rock, Vanilla Ice, all the members of his cabinet, and we made it seem like they were all together in a room. We had a little roast.
"Again, this was Thursday, and there was no big reaction to it until this morning when I greeted the day facing yet another Twitter vomit storm, 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, is here. Look at her. So beautiful. Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.' Which 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. 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. 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... because, by the way, I also should point out: Donald Trump is allowed to say whatever he wants to say, as are you, and as am I, as are all of us. Because under the First Amendment, we have as Americans a right to free speech."
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Queen Sister, @RepPressley, if you want it, we The People want it MORE!
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you point, we execute.
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Dubs up in the chat
Queen Sister, @RepPressley, if you want it, we The People want it MORE!
I have a tendency to go hard in the paint. If this is too much, I'll sat down somewhere and take this down.
you point, we execute.
"Run AYANNA Run!" - by Pastor Ben and the Quantum Soul People
@SenSchumer hey Chuck, I tried calling your office 14 times in the last two days and no one answered. Are you open for business?
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Hakeem 202-225-5936
Chuck Schumer 202-224-6542
@SherrodBrown my Ohio Senator just publicly said he will be voting for Chuck Schumer. He says he knows how to govern. I guess you being voted out of office for the last two years didn’t really matter to you. We voted you back in but it turns out you’re just like the establishment. Fuck you, sir.
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The big guys pulling back = less competition for you.
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Hakeem Jeffries voted for:
H.Res. 719 — Honoring Charlie Kirk
H.R. 8034 — Arming Israel's genocide
H.R. 6090 — Making criticism of Israel a hate crime
H.Res. 883 — Designating "from the river to the sea" as antisemitic
H.Res. 888 — Made denying Israel's "right to exist" antisemitic
H.Res. 798 — Condemned anti-genocide protests on campuses
H.Con.Res. 57 -- Declared Israel as not racist and not apartheid (yes, that was a real thing that he really voted yes on)
H.R. 5323 - $1 billion more Iron Dome (in 2021)
H.R. 7006- Cut funding for UNRWA and stated USA would not recognize the international criminal court
H.Res. 481-Called anti-zionism antisemitism
H.R. 6408-Removed tax-exempt status for groups opposing genocide
H.R. 6679-Restricted admission to the USA for PLO reps
H.Res. 927-Condemned college presidents over bogus allegations of campus antisemitism
H.Res. 11-Objecting to the UN resolution criticizing Israeli occupation in Palestine
H.Con.Res. 58 - Denouncing the "horrors" of socialism
S. 1582- let Crypto do whatever it wants
H.R. 1346- Fuel "choice" bill that increased fossil fuel emissions by 25% through added ethanol
H.R. 5009 -Supported defense authorization that restricted gender-affirming care
H.R. 6544- Weakened nuclear regulatory power
H.R. 5110-Allows the government to give money to school programs that teach kids how to shoot guns
H.R. 3746-Gutted NEPA, approved controversial pipeline, tighter restrictions on SNAP