After yet one more assassination try on President Donald Trump, debate over late-night political speak present host Jimmy Kimmel continues.
Kimmel, who was ostensibly employed to host a comedy present, not often even makes an attempt comedy. Consumed by hatred for Trump and anybody not on the far left, Kimmel has consistently and defiantly argued in opposition to anybody claiming that the job of a comic book is to do comedy.
That contradiction reared its ugly head once more when Kimmel made an objectively poor joke about Melania Trump having the glow of an “expectant widow.” Whether the joke was in poor style or not is a matter of private opinion, nevertheless it was poorly constructed, poorly executed, and, like most of Kimmel’s “material,” acquired little-to-no response.
But after one other try on the president’s life, many pointed to the continued rhetoric from Kimmel and many different figures on the left evaluating Trump and his supporters to Nazis or different extremist ideologies. Meanwhile, Kimmel’s defenders have stated outcry over a joke is unwarranted and an assault on free speech.
One of Kimmel’s defenders? NCS host Jake Tapper. Except, naturally, in dashing to defend him, Tapper deserted what he beforehand stated about different jokes…together with jokes concentrating on Kimmel.
Jake Tapper accepts the Truth Seekers Award onstage throughout the Variety and Rolling Stone Truth Seekers Summit offered by Paramount+ in New York City on Aug. 14. (Bryan Bedder/Variety)
Jake Tapper contradicts Jake Tapper so as to defend his buddy
In early 2024, NFL quarterback Aaron Rodgers made headlines by joking about Kimmel showing on the Epstein List throughout an look on “The Pat McAfee Show” on ESPN. “There’s a lot of people, including Jimmy Kimmel, who’s really hoping that list doesn’t come out,” Rodgers stated.
Kimmel, who oddly was extraordinarily delicate over a joke, then threatened to sue Rodgers, saying “Keep it up and we’ll debate the facts further in court.”
But his hypocrisy pales as compared to his buddy Jake Tapper. Tapper this week rushed to Kimmel’s protection, saying “Journalism and jokes are not calls for violence. Calls for violence are calls for violence.”
He wasn’t carried out there. Tapper then haughtily defended Kimmel by saying that there’s “zero evidence” the alleged murderer was impressed by Kimmel.
“Now, there is zero evidence — zero evidence that the would-be, alleged assassin heard the joke….is it fair to judge Jimmy Kimmel’s joke in light of what happened at the dinner two nights later?”
Jimmy Kimmel hosts “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” throughout a broadcast with friends Sarah Silverman, Paul W. Downs and musical act Sharon Van Etten & The Attachment Theory in Los Angeles on May 20, 2025. (Randy Holmes/Disney through Getty Images)
He continued, saying there’s a “crusade” in opposition to Kimmel and free speech by the Trump administration.
“But this crusade against Kimmel was predictable because the Trump administration’s attempt to use Saturday’s shooting as justification to stop all critical coverage, whether journalistic or comedic, of Donald Trump.”
Well, hopefully sooner or later Jake Tapper can meet earlier variations of Jake Tapper who stated the precise reverse when his celebration was the one being focused by “stochastic” violence. Back in 2024, Tapper stated Aaron Rodgers was going through “intense, and frankly, well deserved criticism” after his joke concentrating on “popular late night comedian” Jimmy Kimmel.
Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Aaron Rodgers reacts on the sphere earlier than the sport in opposition to the Green Bay Packers at Acrisure Stadium on Oct. 26, 2025. (Charles LeClaire/Imagn Images)
“False, defamatory, wildly irresponsible, and not funny,” Tapper stated. He then repeated that it was “wildly irresponsible,” and that there are “lunatics out there who believe this kind of stuff.”
Even higher, he added, “I mean, Kimmel’s right when he says this is putting his family at risk.” Tapper additionally puzzled if ESPN had a “responsibility” to “shut down” one of these dialog. He additionally angrily puzzled in the event that they’d proceed to permit this “nitwit” Rodgers on to make harmful jokes.
That’s only one instance of Tapper making use of a wholly completely different commonplace to jokes relying on the goal. There are others.
After Paul Pelosi was attacked in 2022, Tapper additionally had a whole present about the kind of irresponsible jokes and commentary that lead to assaults on outstanding figures.
Now although, Tapper has reserved his outrage for these upset that Kimmel made a joke about Melania Trump becoming a widow. Seems extraordinarily hypocritical, no? Especially since Tapper was so upset about Rodgers’ joke being “not funny,” and nearly no one discovered Kimmel’s “widow” joke humorous.
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Why would Tapper be so involved with how folks deal with Kimmel?
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Tapper’s clearly mates, or at the least, pleasant, with Kimmel, and due to this fact applies a special commonplace to him than he does to others. Not to point out the completely different commonplace he ceaselessly applies to these on the suitable in contrast to these on the left. The subject isn’t even whether or not Kimmel’s joke was incitement or worthy of condemnation or eradicating him from his present. It’s that there’s wildly disparate therapy for jokes from outstanding media figures relying on the goal.
And it’s simply the newest instance in hypocrisy when it comes to Trump derangement.