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29 July 2026

VIDEO & ARTICLE: Kaitlan Collins Reveals What It Was Like In The Room During Trump's Rambling WHCD Speech & Kaitlan Collins Flags The Striking Detail In Trump's Latest Face-To-Face Outburst At Her 28JUL&4JUN26

 


NOT MY pres donni jessica drumpf/trump proving once again what a waste of flesh he is and that we would all be better off if his mother had eaten him right after he was born!!! From Huffpost.....

Kaitlan Collins Reveals What It Was Like In The Room During Trump's Rambling WHCD Speech







Collins has been the subject of relentless attacks from the president during her time as CNN’s chief White House correspondent.

CNN’s chief White House reporter Kaitlan Collins wasn’t surprised when the president targeted her during his White House Correspondents’ Association dinner speech on Friday.

“That happens pretty regularly inside the Oval Office,” Collins told Jon Stewart on Monday’s “Daily Show.” “This is just a bigger venue where it was happening. What was most surprising to me was the room was filled with a lot of his staffers, his Cabinet, his allies, Republicans in Congress. It was so quiet in the room during the president’s remarks.”

Stewart commended Collins for her trademark unflappability in the face of personal attacks from Donald Trump, and for the straightforward questions she asks the president. 

“That’s why I ask the questions the way I do,” Collins said. “Is because I want anyone to be able to listen to what I’m asking, whether that’s at a briefing or during a moment with the president, and think, you know, ‘I want to know the answer to that too’ or ’That is a good question.’” 

“Well, the answer is very clearly you should smile more,” Stewart said, sarcastically referencing Trump’s attack on Collins at the dinner.

Stewart then asked Collins how she maintains such a calm demeanor in the face of Trump’s insults. 

“It’s really not about me, and I don’t want it to be about my reaction, and so I think if you let it become about that, then it becomes a back and forth between the two of us,” Collins said. 

She noted that it was more important to keep the focus on the substance of the questions she asks and the “non-answers” he often gives.


Kaitlan Collins Flags The Striking Detail In Trump's Latest Face-To-Face Outburst At Her


The president once again attacked the CNN anchor.

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CNN’s Kaitlan Collins highlighted a striking detail about Donald Trump’s latest personal attack on her.

Namely, it began before she had even asked the president a question.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of “The Source,” anchor Collins noted how Trump launched into a rant about CNN and her while railing against the Justice Department’s decision to drop its controversial $1.8 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” during an Oval Office event with reporters.


Before airing the clip, Collins stressed that Trump’s criticism was not actually prompted by anything she had said.

“And just to note, as you’re about to listen to this, this first exchange actually occurred before I had yet to ask the president a question,” she told viewers.

In the exchange, Trump called CNN “crooked as hell” and “a very corrupt organization” and called Collins a “corrupt reporter.”


NOT MY pres donni jessica drumpf/trump is an ignorant, corrupt, lying narcissistic drippings as this video clip proves. 

“Never smiles. A young, beautiful woman. Never smiles,” Trump said of Collins. “I never see a smile on her face. I see her standing there with hatred in her eyes, like, she has hatred because we have borders, because we have a strong military, because we cut our taxes, because we do things that everybody wanted and then we win our election in a massive landslide.”

Later, when Collins did ask Trump whether the fund was “dead” or merely “on hold,” the president said he would “have to ask the lawyers” before again slamming “fake news CNN,” telling Collins to “be quiet” and that she should “be ashamed of herself.”

29 April 2026

Jimmy Kimmel Speaks Out After Melania Trump ‘Widow’ Joke Criticism 28APR26



 TYPICAL hypocrisy from the no class trash of the drumpf / trump-vance administration and  his bitch (still not talking about you this time lindsey r-SC). Guaranteed by the First Amendment of the US Constitution, We The People have the right to express our opinions, too bad if you do not like it. IF this administration, their ass licking sycophants in the gop / greed over people-republican party and the magat cult want the nation's public discussions to change they need to start with themselves. This from Time.....

Jimmy Kimmel Speaks Out After Melania Trump ‘Widow’ Joke Criticism


Chad de Guzman

“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,” comedian Jimmy Kimmel said in the opening monologue of his late-night show Monday evening. “We’ve all been there, right?”

Kimmel, who frequently mocks President Donald Trump and his family and whose show last year was temporarily suspended after pressure on ABC by the Administration, addressed First Lady Melania Trump’s call earlier Monday for the network to fire him over a joke he made last week.

Kimmel, in a skit that aired on April 23 that satirized the then-upcoming White House Correspondents’ Dinner, pretended to address Melania and joked that the First Lady had “a glow like an expectant widow.” 

But after the actual dinner on April 25 was disrupted by a shooting, suspected to be the third assassination attempt on the President, Melania claimed on social media that Kimmel’s “hateful and violent rhetoric is intended to divide our country” and that “his monologue about my family isn’t comedy.” The President also chimed in, referencing Kimmel’s “expectant widow” joke and claiming that it was “far beyond the pale.”

Kimmel defended himself on Monday night’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live!, saying that his remark was not a call for violence but rather “obviously was a joke about their age difference and the look of joy we see on her face every time they’re together.”

Kimmel continued: “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.”

He noted, facetiously, that if the Trumps really believe his remarks could have induced violence, they should also look into a remark made by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt before the dinner. “It will be funny. It will be entertaining,” Leavitt had told Fox News. “There will be some shots fired tonight.”

While Kimmel said he understands that the incident may have been particularly “stressful” for the Trumps and agreed to reject “hateful and violent rhetoric,” he argued that the First Lady should first speak to her husband about dialing back inflammatory language against his critics and the press.

“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,” Kimmel said, while noting that he’s a vocal advocate against gun violence. “I am sorry that you and the President and everyone in that room on Saturday went through that. I really am,” he said. “Just ’cause no one got killed doesn't mean it wasn’t traumatic and scary, and we should come together and be best.”

28 April 2026

NSFW: AFTER NOT MY pres drumpf / trump CELEBRATED THE DEATHS OF ROB & MICHELE REINER AND ROBERT S MUELLER III WITH NO OBJECTION BY MELANIA THE President and First Lady Demand ABC Fire Jimmy Kimmel Over ‘Widow’ Joke 27APR26







CONVICTED FELON & IMMIGRANT & Melania Trump’s racy girl-on-girl photoshoot pics revealed (NSFW) 12DEZ25 & 2AUG16


Amanda Ungaro Arrived in the U.S. on Jeffrey Epstein's Plane at 17 — Now She's Going After Melania Trump From Brazil & Trump Friend Asked ICE to Detain the Mother of His Child 10APR&20MAR26




 NOT MY pres drumpf / trump and his bitch (not talking about you this time lindsey r-SC) are self righteous, sanctimonious, hypocritical snowflakes. This is a great description of them and their ass licking sycophants in drump's / trump's administration, congressional and national gop / greed over people-republican party leadership and so many of the "christian" nationalist and magat cultist.....Characteristics of a Sanctimonious Person: Hypocrisy: They preach moral standards to others that they do not follow themselves. Self-Righteousness: They believe their personal beliefs and behaviors make them better than others. Preachy and Condescending:  They sound smug or show a "holier-than-thou" attitude in their communication. Performative: They often show piety or moral outrage for public display rather than genuine conviction. KEEP ON KEEPING ON Jimmy Kimmel and the rest of the public personalities who are not afraid to remind this government and those in power of the First Amendment! AND fascist fotze trunt kkkaroline leavitt, America consumes commentary on late night TV because this White House, this administration and this gop / greed over people-republican party (as well as you being married to and breeding with someone about the same age who looks similar to your father) are / is deranged From the New York Times.....

President and First Lady Demand ABC Fire Jimmy Kimmel Over ‘Widow’ Joke


The joke was recorded two days before the White House correspondents’ dinner, where a gunman tried to storm the press gala.


President Trump and first lady Melania Trump demanded in separate social media posts on Monday that ABC pull comedian Jimmy Kimmel from its airwaves over a bit involving the White House correspondents’ dinner, delivered two days before it occurred.

Mr. Kimmel, who has a long history of sparring with the president, had imagined himself as the M.C. at the dinner. “Of course, our first lady, Melania, is here,” he said on Thursday night. Then, pretending to address her, he called her “so beautiful” and added: “Mrs. Trump, you have a glow like an expectant widow.” He made cracks about Mr. Trump’s age and health.

This was before a gunman broke past a security perimeter in the Washington Hilton while the president and first lady were inside on Saturday.

In his social media post Monday afternoon, Mr. Trump described the comedian’s joke as “really shocking” and “something far beyond the pale.” He ended his post: “Jimmy Kimmel should be immediately fired by Disney and ABC.”


The first lady had posted about Mr. Kimmel a few hours earlier.

“His monologue about my family isn’t comedy,” she wrote. “His words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America.” She called Mr. Kimmel “a coward” who “shouldn’t have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate.” She said he “hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him.”

“Enough is enough,” she wrote. “It is time for ABC to take a stand.”

The White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt, cited Mr. Kimmel’s bit at her briefing Monday afternoon, too. “This kind of rhetoric about the president, the first lady, and his supporters is completely deranged,” she said. “It’s unbelievable that the American people are consuming it night after night after night.”

Representatives for Mr. Kimmel and for ABC did not return requests for comment.

The outcry from the White House on Monday was the latest instance of a president who has himself made inflammatory remarks about matters of life and death defining what sort of speech he deems acceptable in America. He recently gloated over the death of Robert S. Mueller III — “Good, I’m glad he’s dead!” — and seized on the murder of Hollywood director Rob Reiner and his wife, at the hands of their own son, to suggest that “Trump derangement syndrome” may have been responsible.

The controversy over a joke told about a dinner meant to honor the first amendment is sure to revive a fight over censorship between Mr. Trump and Mr. Kimmel that erupted last fall. In September, ABC pulled Mr. Kimmel’s late night show from the air temporarily after a conservative uproar over the way he described the politics of the man accused of shooting the right-wing activist Charlie Kirk.

The network did not initially explain its decision, but it came after political pressure by the Trump administration. At the time, Mr. Trump called the decision “Great News for America” and later said networks whose hosts are critical of him should lose their right to broadcast.

Mr. Kimmel was back on the air before long, and has since taken up his role as Trump family bête noire with gusto.

In his appearance on Thursday, Mr. Kimmel also did an impression that imagined Jeffrey Epstein introducing Melania Trump to her future husband. That line in particular was likely to incense the first lady; earlier this month, she shocked the White House by calling a surprise press appearance to hit back at rumors that Epstein, the dead financier, had been the one to introduce her to Mr. Trump. The president later said his wife found it “very insulting” that such a story was being spread.

But it was Mr. Kimmel’s “widow” reference that the president and his press secretary cited on Monday.

In the wake of Saturday’s shooting, Mr. Trump said the whole ordeal at the Washington Hilton had been “a rather traumatic experience” for his wife. She dove under a table, and looked stricken as she stood in the White House press briefing room alongside top members of the government during the president’s late-night press conference.

On Sunday, the president appeared on 60 Minutes and talked about what it was like when he and his wife “dropped to the floor.”

“Well, my thought was, ‘You know, I’ve been through this before a couple of times,’ and she has not, to this extent,” he said. “She got it. She knew what was happening. She listened.”


Shawn McCreesh is a White House reporter for The Times covering the Trump administration.

A version of this article appears in print on April 28, 2026, Section A, Page 13 of the New York edition with the headline: Trumps Demand Kimmel Be Fired for ‘Widow’ Joke.