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Morning Joe Defends Kimmel Widow Joke, Mocks Melania's 'Crocodile Tears,' 'Bad Faith'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelsein

Posted on 04/28/2026 10:11:13 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

On Tuesday’s Morning Joe, the panel rode to the defense of Jimmy Kimmel, embracing his claim that his “expectant widow” line about Melania Trump was merely an age-gap “joke”— then turning on Donald Trump and the First Lady for objecting.

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Kimmel insisted the remark was harmless:

“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.”

Morning Joe bought that framing wholesale. Co-host Willie Geist dismissed the backlash as “so much bad faith,” suggesting critics were simply trying to get Kimmel fired.

Host Joe Scarborough sneered at the reaction as “such crocodile tears.” He said "crocodile tears" three times.

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To: governsleastgovernsbest
The not funny activists posing as comedians dam of the left broke open with Kathy Griffin.

It's out of the Alinsky playbook. "Ridicule, the most effective weapon"

"Anything is ethical if it advances the revolution " -Karl Marx

21 posted on 04/28/2026 10:39:45 AM PDT by blackdog (The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.)
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To: CodeToad

Joe is the lowest level of low IQ scum out there. Sold his soul to avoid the truth of the intern’s death and to hang out with the devil’s crowd.


22 posted on 04/28/2026 10:40:19 AM PDT by Bayou Dittohead
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

It looks like they are both wearing black in this photo. Anticipation?


23 posted on 04/28/2026 10:45:30 AM PDT by Bernard ("Nothing is as expensive as that which the government provides for free." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: larrytown

What was Joe’s involvement in the death of his own intern in his own office? I even think the office was locked.


24 posted on 04/28/2026 10:52:49 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I wonder how many jokes Jimmy Kimmel told about the aging and doddering Joe Biden. I wonder if he ever made any jokes about Jill Biden’s impending widowhood.


25 posted on 04/28/2026 10:54:35 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle1
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Melania’s husband was millimeters away from being assassinated in Pennsylvania , was targeted again on his own golf course, and most recently at the Correspondent’s dinner. To make light of this is despicable and scummy, but then neither Scarborough or his comrade have ever been classy.


26 posted on 04/28/2026 10:55:09 AM PDT by neverevergiveup
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To: ConservativeMind

“It’s just a joke...what’s the big deal?”


27 posted on 04/28/2026 10:57:16 AM PDT by larrytown
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Melania is innocent of any harm to the Dems and Socialists.
She has not been a loudmouth at all since the first days of the first administration, like the shrew Hillary was all along.

The classless neanderthal leftist like Morning Joe have no justification for slandering or attacking Melania.


28 posted on 04/28/2026 11:18:04 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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To: Old Retired Army Guy

The sad truth: According to Nielsen data, as of early 2026, Morning Joe averaged 784,000 total viewers and 88,000 viewers in the key 25–54 age demographic during the first quarter of the year.


29 posted on 04/28/2026 11:26:06 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (Please ping or FReepmail me to be added to the Liberal Media Criticism ping list.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
The sad truth: According to Nielsen data, as of early 2026, Morning Joe averaged 784,000 total viewers and 88,000 viewers in the key 25–54 age demographic during the first quarter of the year.

So, less than a third of a percent of all Americans? And an even smaller percentage of all Americans in the "key" demographic?

Regards,

30 posted on 04/28/2026 11:40:30 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: stanne

THERE IS NO STATUTE OF LIMITATIONS ON MURDER, JOE.


31 posted on 04/28/2026 11:53:16 AM PDT by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Amazing that they can divine a motive and interpretation of incendiary words uttered by a lefturd, but can’t manage to ascribe a motive to an obvious presidential assassin. And all this without even talking to the late night buffoon. It’s always a “joke” when dems are caught being themselves.


32 posted on 04/28/2026 11:55:09 AM PDT by DPMD (u)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The left is in panic mode trying to do cover up act because more people have wised up to the lefts daily BS propaganda elections may be a huge problem for them.

The caused all the major problems in America over the years.


33 posted on 04/28/2026 12:07:49 PM PDT by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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To: Vaduz

Yeah but we are not having midterm elections today.


34 posted on 04/28/2026 12:09:09 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

Yes but money problems stops or slows down bribes and bogus votes.

Right now that party is setting on a seat above the water tank as balls get tossed.


35 posted on 04/28/2026 12:34:31 PM PDT by Vaduz (NEVER TRUST A DEMOCRAT)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Trump needs to call every one of these an expectant corpse


36 posted on 04/28/2026 12:38:34 PM PDT by sopo
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

was not, by any stretch of the definition, a call to assassination

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No, but maybe it was a Freudian slip, like Biden bragging about the most advanced election fraud machine in history.

To me, it smacks of a psychopath inability to contain his passive aggressive glee of forth knowledge.

I say investigate him , drag him over some proverbial coals, and see what comes out his mouth.

Actions must have proportional consequences.

Tis not a joking matter .


37 posted on 04/28/2026 12:45:02 PM PDT by cuz1961
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To: cuz1961

psychopath inability to contain his passive aggressive glee of fore knowledge.


38 posted on 04/28/2026 12:46:51 PM PDT by cuz1961
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To: sopo

They’re all future worm food. They should think long and hard about that before saying it’s no big deal, but they won’t. It’s what they want some young idiot to believe to die to advance their twisted cause. This is just more incitement. Murder is not protected by the first amendment and we did not assassinate George III to win our independence.


39 posted on 04/28/2026 12:58:52 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Banjo Boy.


40 posted on 04/28/2026 1:12:07 PM PDT by moreisee
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