“Our first lady is here. Mrs. Trump … you have a glow like an expectant widow,” Kimmel said.
“By the way, in the unfortunate event that our president has a medical emergency tonight, do we have a doctor in the house — oh, I’m sorry. I mean, do we have a Jesus in the house? I always confuse them, too,” he added, referring to a meme President Trump had previously posted and then deleted on Truth Social that appeared to depict him as Jesus.
In January, Dr. Vin Gupta, medical analyst for NBC News, maintained that Trump, whose father was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease in his '80s, was displaying "word finding difficulties" and "inattentention, he loses his train of thought." He was exhibiting "clear inability to epress his own thoughts, difficulty completing a sentence, tangential speech. Of course, memory issues. He doesn't know what he's talking about. Greenland fro even the course of a sentnece and confuses it with Iceland."
Dr. Jonathan Reiner, the cardiologist who served as Vice President Dick Cheney's physician, pointed out that Trump was taking 325 mg of aspirin daily, typically prescribed only after a stroke or heart attack. Noting significant bruising that the President had been suffering, Reiner asked "Why would you continue to take a higher dose of aspirin than your doctor recommends if you're bruising excessively? Makes no sense."
In the words of John Oliver, now this:
Fresh concerns over US President Donald Trump’s health have
surfaced after recent visuals and reports suggested possible issues with his
mobility.
Speculation grew after observers claimed Trump may be using a hidden leg brace, with some pointing to his movements and posture in public appearances. Social media users also questioned his coordination, with videos showing him appearing cautious while walking.
The Administration's response to the accumulated evidence of ill health of the President has been either to withhold medical information from the public or to deny, deny, deny
Kimmel contends that his words reflected the significant age difference between the middle-aged First Lady and the elderly President. Nontheless, the President is not a well man and, taken as a whole, evidence indicates that he may be dying. If Kimmel's critics had condemned the comedian for making light of the President's physical condition while evidence mounts that his health is critical, it would have been bad enough. Facts can be disregarded. But it's worse than that.
Kimmel made his weak joke in the evening of April 23. Yet, it wasn't until Monday, April 27 that Melania Trump- who once lived with husband Donald- complained "his monologue about my family isn't comedy- his words are corrosive and deepens the political sickness within America." As deeply offended by "cancellation culture" as the rest of the Republican Party, Melania argued "People like Kimmel shouldn't have the opportunity to enter our homes each evening to spread hate."
She continued "A coward, Kimmel hides behnd ABC because he knows the network willl keep running cover to protect him." "Enough is enough," whined the woman who hasn't had an original thought since she definitely was not a call girl nor passed among Jeffrey Epstein, Donald Trump, and other men. The ex-"model" added "It is time for ABC tot ake a stand. How many times will ABC's leadership enable Kimmel's atrocious behavior at the expense of our community."
A joke is not "behavior;" it is speech. The wife of the President, who did live with her husband at least a few years since she definitely was no longer a call girl, should know that.
A few hours later, the President himself, never missing a chance for demagoguery, described the comedian's joke as "shocking' and 'something far beyond the pale.'" Also a staunch oppponent of cancellation culture, Donald added "Jimmy Kimmel should be immediately fired by Disney and ABC."
Yet, the remarks of the presidential press secretary which were most significant. Lyin' Leavitt charged "Who in their right minds [sic]says a wife would be glowing over the potential murder of her beloved husband And having experienced what I did with the First Lady on Saturday night, I can tell you that she was anything but that."
In adding "this kind of rhetoric about the President, the First Lady, and his supporters is completely deranged," Karoline conflated Kimmel's comment with all other comments, inaccurately implying that they are polific. Referring to Donald as Melania's "beloved husband" is just short of bizarre when the First Lady evidently "hates his f---ing guts."
But the most telling phrase of Karoline's comment was "potential murder." This was not a reference to Ryan Routh, who poked a rifle through a chain-link fence while candidate Trump was golfing at Trump International Golf Club in Fort Pierce, Florida. Nor was it a reference to Thomas Crooks, who was shot dead after he fired at President Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Leavitt was linking Kimmel's joke to the effort of Cole Thomas Allen to storm into the ballroom where President Trump, Vice President Vance, and other members of the Administration had joined a vast numer of journalists and other invited guests for the White House Correspondents' Association dinner. Of course, the apparent assassination attempt had occurred after (by two days) Jimmy Kimmel's monologue.
The press secretary suggested that Kimmel's remark was in particularly bad taste given "what I did with the First Lady on Saturday night." She- and the President and his "wife"- could have expressed their alleged outrage on Friday or on Saturday morning or afternoon. Donald even could have posted something on Untruth Social overnight on Thursday. He often posts things overnight because he is awake when he is absolutely, positively not using drugs.
However, it was more advantageous to do so on Monday, following the incident at the Washington Hilton. It was an effort to anger those people who would know about the event, hear the condemnation on Monday or Tuesday, and assume that Kimmel made some wful remark after the President ws almost, almost shot and killed. Hypocritical? Cowardly? A little of both? You make the call.
A little thought and individuals would have realized the comment came before Saturday night but thinking these things through asks a lot of people busy with their personal lives. That applies especially to those "poorly educated" Trump claims to love.
A master propagandist, the presidential press secretary has learned much from the master propagandist, her own master. Others in the regime also have done so, which is reason not to understimate the Administration, even as the President suffers through a period of extraordinary unpopularity.
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